Nevada Fake Tea Party Candidate Faces Felony Charges
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, March 27, 2010, 9:53 AM
Fake tea party candidate Scott Ashjian, a Nevada asphalt contractor running for US Senate in Nevada, was charged Friday with felony theft and bad check charges in Las Vegas. The fake tea partier allegedly bounced a $5,000 business check last year.
On top of that the Tea Party Express released a video telling faker Scott Ashjian to get lost:
The AP reported:
Scott Ashjian is one of a record 22 candidates, including 12 Republicans, running for the seat held by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is seeking a fifth term.
Bernie Zadrowski, head of the Clark County district attorney’s office bad check unit, said he would seek an arrest warrant Monday in Las Vegas Justice Court. Ashjian could face up to 14 years in state prison if convicted.
The tea party movement is a disparate coalition of conservative groups angered by federal spending, rising taxes and the growth and reach of government. Other tea party activists have been distancing themselves from Ashjian, and an ad targeting him has been sponsored by the Tea Party Express, one of the most visible factions of the national tea party movement.
In a separate matter, a Carson City District Court judge on Friday set an April 14 hearing on a lawsuit that challenges Ashjian’s “in the Tea Party of Nevada and his place on the ballot.
As Bob Owens reported: “The Tea Party of Nevada is a fake grassroots organization led by a Democratic lawyer and conspiracy theorists that hoped to split away enough Republican votes to give Harry Reid a chance of remaining in office.”
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Mediocre President commented:
For once, AP was honest and they noted the true Tea Partiers were distancing themselves from this fake. We take our victories, small though they may often be, where we can.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
#1 M.P.
As noted by Jim at the end of the post, it wasn’t the AP that (rightly) called this poseur a Fake Tea Party Candidate.
I clicked on the link and read the ACTUAL AP headline:
“Nevada tea party candidate facing felony charges”
Nowhere in the article does it mention that: “The Tea Party of Nevada is a fake grassroots organization led by a Democratic lawyer and conspiracy theorists that hoped to split away enough Republican votes to give Harry Reid a chance of remaining in office.” That was Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee that Jim was quoting, who offered the most, if not the only, relevant piece of information on this matter.
No, just as I suspected, the MSM will use this, in all their headlines, and with all their willful omissions, to disparage the actual Tea Parties.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
“For once, AP was honest…”
Basically – no they weren’t.
wanumba commented:
Good! But maybe all this is a wake up call to Americans that not investing much effort in learning about candidates is a mistake. And also that citizens have to step up and run for office. If decent people don’t run, then the losers and hacks by default get the jobs.
It DOES matter – we have a stable of Democratic Party elected officials who sounded all reasonable on the campaign trail, but have disappeared behind a wall to vote out life in America as we know it.
auntie em commented:
The Tea Party needs to change its name to the Vetting Party.
We’ll expose your a$$!!!!!
pm commented:
Visiting “biggovernment.com”, I saw an ad for a candidate in my state who dubbed himself an “ordinary citizen” versus a “48yr. incumbent”.
He did not state what party when asking for donations. Only that with the current state of things, he’d decided after much consideration, that he should enter politics. I was intrigued.
Reading it, you learned – only at the end – that he worked for Obama’s election and wants to continue his progress at the state level.
He wrote and sounded so benign as he explained his positions on issues, but they were clearly wealth redistribution and methods to curtail our freedom to live as we choose.
These are the kinds of things we must be aware of – the sleight of hand methods to gain power over us. Do not trust any candidate unless you know them and their record.
This guy, it turns out, is most likely a koolaid drinker who is doing what Team BO has directed: get involved in politics at every level of government.
His control of us all must be complete.
Karin commented:
pm makes a very good point up there. We all need to read very carefully about all candidates from now on, to the end of time. Fine print, all of it. Just look at NY23 last year. With Scozzafava on the R line, any dimwit could have voted with blinders on (and some of course, did).