"It’s the highest stakes ever for a Nevada election, and former boxer Sen. Harry Reid is on the ropes early. Either Republican Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden would knock out Reid in a general election, according to a recent poll of Nevada voters.
The results suggest the Democratic Senate majority leader will have to punch hard and often in order to retain his position as the most accomplished politician in state history, in terms of job status.
Nevadans favored Tarkanian over Reid 49 percent to 38 percent and Lowden over Reid 45percent to 40 percent, according to the poll.
Reid’s status makes him an icon of the Democratic Party and ties him to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and President Barack Obama, both of whom are losing ground among centrist and right-leaning voters in the country."
Nevadans who support him do so primarily because of the fight over the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site issue. Harry has been instrumental in blocking the feds from shipping the waste to Yucca Mountain. The federal government spent about $7 billion of our tax money developing the Yucca Repository. It might as well be used for what was intended. Spent nuclear fuel has to be stored somewhere until better solutions can be developed. Nevada might as well get the federal dollars that come with the waste. Most of Harry's supporters have turned a blind eye to his dirty land deals and pork-barrelling in Washington DC, perferring to focus only on his Yucca blocking efforts. I think Dirty Harry's mind can be changed with enough palm grease though.
As a side note, the only 2008 presidential canidate to vote against Yucca was Dennis Kucinich. Obama not only voted in favor of it, he took campaign contributions from those who want it in Nevada including General Electric.
The taxpayer liability is that the government has contracts with the utilities to dispose of their waste starting in 1998 and has been found to be in breach of contract, making the government liable for as much as $7 billion when the repository begins to accept waste. The delay has consequences. The "smart grid" just might make it mandatory for Nevada to accept the waste whether Harry and his supporters like it or not.
About 20 years ago, I received information "on the sly" that left me seriously questioning whether nuclear waste isn't already being temporarily stored in Nevada--in the north, not the south. Conspiracy theory? Maybe.
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There used to be rumors that things were stored at Herlong, not quite NN but close enough for Gov. work. My father in law was safety inspector for the the base, they spent a great deal of money putting the rumor to rest. Herlong was turned upside down and over twice, I had more radioactive value in my watch. Fallon and the cancer cluster went through a similar process, although not being familar with on the ground types I don't know how throrough they were......
Thanks for the heads up. The location info I have is not Herlong, Fallon, Hawthorne, Nellis, Area 51, or any other similar place.
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