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• Conservatives host national blogger conference in October

  Spend Three Days with 38 (and Counting) of the Nation’s Most Powerful and Influential Conservative Leaders & Bloggers… If You Never Go to Another Conservative Conference the Rest of Your Life… DON’T MISS THIS ONE! Read on for a Sizzling “Dog Days of Summer” Special Offer! Dear Fellow Conservative/Libertarian, If you think this is “just another invitation” [...]
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  Posted: August 22, 2007, 10:26pm EDT
  by Eric Odom

• POLITICAL DERBY, 411 COMMUNICATIONS TO CONDUCT CLC STRAW POLL

  (June 21, 2007) - The 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference (CLC) announced today that Jason Wright of Political Derby and Chris Ingram of 411 Communications will conduct a “straw poll” of conference attendees, including a presidential preference poll of Republican, Democrat and Libertarian Party candidates. In addition, the poll will be [...]
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  Posted: June 21, 2007, 9:36am EDT
  by Eric Odom

• New Poll: Fred Thompson Leading in Nevada

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  (Carson City, NV) - A new Citizen Outreach / Battle Born News poll for the Republican presidential nomination in Nevada shows unannounced candidate Fred Thompson leading the field. The June 18th poll surveyed 1,546 registered Republicans. The results: Fred Thompson - 29.0 percent Rudy Giuliani - 26.5 percent Mitt Romney - 20.1 percent John [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2007, 11:10am EDT
  by Eric Odom

• Bloggers Chat With Jim Gibbons

  On May 30th Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons had a brief chat with bloggers on a conference call hosted by Citizen Outreach. I’ll keep a list of posts written by bloggers on that call here. Mark Warden says: Noteworthy from the call: 1. Mainstream politicians are paying attention to the blogosphere. Governor Gibbons and [...]
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  Posted: May 31, 2007, 12:36am EDT
  by Eric Odom

• Is more money really needed?

  • It seems all taxpayers ever hear from local commissioners, state legislators and federal representatives is: “We need more money. We can’t fix the road problems without more money. We can’t fix our education woes without more money. We can’t fix our health care woes without more money. We can’t fix [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 2:24pm EDT
  by Nancy Dallas

• Pitiful Poll Results

  A new Reno Gazette-Journal poll shows Gov. Jim Gibbons’ job approval rating at about 30 percent, basically the base of the Republican Party which will stick by the governor as long as he sticks by his pledge to veto any efforts to raise taxes. Democrat Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, who [...]
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  Posted: April 22, 2007, 7:54am EDT
  by Chuck

• Shadegg to Chair Reno Conservative Conference

  Rep. John Shadegg, Arizona Republican, has signed on to be the Honorary Chairman for this fall’s Conservative Leadership Conference in Reno, Nevada. CLC ‘07 is being co-hosted by Citizen Outreach and Americans for Tax Reform and will be held at John Ascuaga’s Nugget Resort & Casino on October 11-13. Rep. Shadegg [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2007, 12:32pm EDT
  by Chuck

• Letting teachers have guns is a bad idea, eh?

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  Richard Clark, a teacher at Reno High School, recently posted a comment over at Bob Beers’ blog. As a teacher in the Washoe County School District , I cannot believe that you are going to propose a bill allowing teachers to carry guns on campus. That is the most ridiculous and [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2007, 7:47pm EDT
  by Eric Odom

• Net Neutrality - A Royal Fable

  This is a great video that explains the dangers posed by search giant Google and several other online companies who support net regulation. The video was created and provided by NetCompetition.org. -Eric Odom [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2007, 12:54pm EDT
  by Eric Odom

• The Anti-Employee No Choice Act

  One of the more egregiously misnamed bills in the history of Congress has got to be the “Employee Free Choice Act,” a measure which is neither pro-employee nor a free choice. What it really does is allow union bosses to force employers to recognize a union as the workforce’s bargaining [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2007, 10:12am EDT
  by Chuck

• Please excuse the mess…

  Things are going to be quite messy over the weekend. We’re getting ready to bring the new design in and change a lot of things around. The new theme will be MUCH better, and will help BBN run like an actual news site. The new site will have three basic [...]
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  Posted: April 06, 2007, 2:00am EDT
  by Eric Odom