Sharron Angle Builds Lead on Harry Reid & Fake Tea Party Candidate Ashjian May Have Broken Law
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 6:15 AM
Conservative Sharron Angle has built a lead on far left statist Harry Reid in the Nevada Senate race.
FOX News reported:
Republican Sharron Angle seems to be solidifying her support in her bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada.
In the latest Fox News battleground state poll of likely voters, Angle drew 49 percent to Reid’s 46 percent. As voters make up their mind with four weeks to go until Election Day, Angle seems to have the edge.
In the first Fox battleground poll in the Silver State four weeks ago, 10 percent of respondents were either unsure, in favor of a minor party candidate or, as state law allows in Nevada, planning to vote for “none of these candidates.”
In this week’s poll, those three categories add up to 5 percent. Over the same period, Angle’s overall vote percentage went from 45 percent to 49 percent.
And yesterday, the campaign manager for the fake tea party candidate Scott Ashjian dropped out and endorsed Sharron Angle.
Big Journalism reported:
There was no “Tea Party of Nevada” until Ashjian created it and the media relished the novelty.
He has never been to a Tea Party event and has not been endorsed by any Tea Party out there so the left loves that he could help give Reid six more years in the U.S. Senate by people mistakenly voting for the “Tea Party” candidate. Speculation has it that Reid is behind Ashjian’s candidacy, but that has not been proven. All Ashjian can do in this race is save Harry Reid. Certainly nobody with any real Tea Party affiliation would ever want that to happen.
Now there are the audio tapes.
The Chairman of the “Tea Party of Nevada,” Syd James (it is basically a party of two), arranged a meeting with the Angle camp under the premise that Ashjian would drop out and endorse Angle (Ashjian’s name would still be on the ballot). Ashjian has claimed that it was Angle who arranged the meeting, but James assures me that it he arranged it and he’s sorry he did.
Ashjian wore a wire into the meeting and covertly taped the conversation with Angle. James said he had no idea that the meeting was taped and would’ve never done it had he known Ashjian was going to tape it. If you listen to the tapes, understand their surreptitious nature and understand the context was that Angle thought Ashjian had come bearing gifts of an endorsement. If Angle made a mistake it was trusting Ashjian, but since James arranged the meeting, the Angle camp was trusting James, who is a highly respected doctor in Las Vegas.
As a result, James feels used by Ashjian and has told me he will resign from his position with the “Tea Party of Nevada” and endorse Angle.
There are still questions on whether Reid-supporter Ashjian broke the law when he recorded Angle in their private meeting.
Ramus sent this in:
Forgive me if I missed this or if I am stating the obvious, but why has no one brought up the possibility that Scott Ashjian may have committed a felony under Nevada law? Many states prohibit the secret recording of a private conversation by telephone.
Nevada is no different, except that the statutory language is not limited to telephone conversations. Also the Nevada statute makes it a felony whereas in other states it is a serious misdemeanor. Granted, some statutes are more clearly written than the Nevada statute I quote below, but doesn’t the language of Nevada Revise Statute Section 200.650 (please see below) suggest that Ashjian, by secretly recording a private conversation with Angle, may be guilty of a felony?
Here is the statute I am referring to –“NRS 200.650 Unauthorized, surreptitious intrusion of privacy by listening device prohibited. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 179.410 to 179.515, inclusive, and 704.195, a person shall not intrude upon the privacy of other persons by surreptitiously listening to, monitoring or recording, or attempting to listen to, monitor or record, by means of any mechanical, electronic or other listening device, any private conversation engaged in by the other persons, or disclose the existence, content, substance, purport, effect or meaning of any conversation so listened to, monitored or recorded, unless authorized to do so by one of the persons engaging in the
conversation.(Added to NRS by 1957, 335; A 1973, 1749; 1989, 660)”
The penalty section follows Section 200.650 –
“NRS 200.690 Penalties.
1. A person who willfully and knowingly violates NRS 200.620 to 200.650, inclusive:
(a) Shall be punished for a category D felony as provided in NRS 193.130.
(b) Is liable to a person whose wire or oral communication is intercepted without his or her consent for:
(1) Actual damages or liquidated damages of $100 per day of violation but not less than $1,000, whichever is greater;
(2) Punitive damages; and
(3) His or her costs reasonably incurred in the action, including a reasonable attorney’s fee, Ê all of which may be recovered by civil action.
2. A good faith reliance by a public utility on a written request for interception by one party to a conversation is a complete defense to any civil or criminal action brought against the public utility on account of the interception.
(Added to NRS by 1957, 336; A 1967, 474; 1973, 1749; 1995, 1195)”A link to the statute section 200.650 is here –
The link takes you to the statute itself, which in turn has other links to the referenced sections 179.410 et seq. Those sections define the terms “person,” etc. The penalty section immediately follows the substantive law in 200.650 so I won’t re-link.Ashjian may have violated the first part of this law by secretly recording what was, in essence, a private conversation. He may have also violated the second part of that law by then disclosing the recording.
Can anyone add anything to this? Can we confirm that it was a crime from the above text?
It sure looks like he broke the law.
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Militant Conservative commented:
The tsunami gathers strength and moves slowly sweeping all opposition away. This is going to cause the left to totally twist off. LOL powder is dry.
BuddyG commented:
Looks like Harry’s war is lost.
tarpon commented:
The people aren’t as stupid as the old DNC parrot media had been counting on.
NeoKong commented:
Oh please….why must we pretend.
Ashjian is just a manufactured spoiler.
Nobody who is getting 1% of the vote stays in a race.
The Dem sleaze machine has lost a wheel.
Prefounder commented:
Jim,
why dont you add the link to carnaclown boasting dems would run fake 3rd party candidates to divide the left.
This is PERFECT context.
Great post.
Prefounder commented:
correction:
TO DIVIDE THE RIGHT sorry DOINK
Barracuda commented:
“unless authorized to do so by one of the persons engaging in the
conversation.”
Looks like Nevada is a one party consent state, although I’m not a lawyer.
vsatt commented:
“unless authorized to do so by one of the persons engaging in the conversation.”
That sounds to me like you could record yourself in a conversation without the other person’s knowledge or consent.
TimothyJ commented:
What they need to do is come up with information that links Reed to Assjian. This would go over like a terrorist bomb in New York City.
Reaganite Republican commented:
Here Jim:
“Of the 50 states, 38, as well as the District of Columbia, allow you to record a conversation to which you are a party without informing the other parties you are doing so.
Federal wiretap statutes also permit one-party-consent recording of telephone conversations in most circumstances.
Twelve states forbid the recording of private conversations without the consent of all parties. Those states are California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, NEVADA, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington.”
http://www.rcfp.org/handbook/c03p01.html
Warthog commented:
Thank you, Reganaite, for finding the relevant information.
(And thank you Al Gore, for making the Inernet that allowse the exposure of hypocracy and wrong doing so easy…)
kansas commented:
He broke the law, but he’s a Democrat. (Yeah I know “Tea Party” cough)
Oldpuppymax commented:
Needless to say, the political scams, hits and thuggery as directed by the left will hit unparalleled levels in the next couple of weeks. Republicans MUST maintain a backbone and REFUSE to sell-out, knuckle under or play the limp wristed game of political expediency in the face of the coming media onslaught. Let Hussein champion the “apology tour.”
lyle commented:
Good find by Reaganite, but the quoted statute does seem to allow Ashjian to release a conversation to which he was a party:
‘…unless authorized to do so by one of the persons engaging in the conversation.’
In any event, this shouldn’t hurt Angle. It’s like the Meg Whitman employment ‘scandal’.
When Democrats think it’s a scandal to obey the law or to say what you mean or to have a father who was once, long ago, a part-time fill-in TV clown, then they’re out of ammo four weeks before the election.
heir2freedom commented:
Yet more evidence the Dems and the ruling elite are coming unhinged by the grassroots rebellion. As James Madison said, “I like a little rebellion now and then… The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
It’s still early October and the “dirty tricks” from the left will just continue to ramp up. It’s all in line with Alinsky’s “ends justify the means” Marxist dictum.
Hopefully, the good people of Nevada will realize that the Reid-machine was behind these attacks on Ms. Angle and vote the destructive gremlin out. To read more on why Reid must go:
http://heir2freedom.blogspot.com/2010/10/harry-senator-no-reid-must-go-are-you.html
vsatt commented:
The rfcp.org link references Lane vs. Allstate in concluding that Nevada requires consent of both parties. The decision in that case applied to phone conversations. In-person conversations only require the consent of one of the parties and that person can also be the one recording it.
IronDioPriest commented:
Guys, guys, guys….
This meeting between Angle and Ashjian WAS NOT ON THE TELEPHONE. IT WAS IN PERSON.
No law was broken. Ashjian wore a wire, and the meeting was arranged by his campaign manager.
averagemelon commented:
The stench of desperation is nauseating. This cannot remotely help the Democrats.
Lightwave commented:
Those Gallup poll numbers showing a 13-18 point likely voter advantage among Republicans support what I have been saying for months now: Republicans will pick up 80-100 seats in the House and a dozen in the Senate.
It will be a race to see who can get rid of Obama faster, the GOP or conservative Dems.
You will see a third party liberal party split the Dems in half before you will see another Democrat in the White House.
neverends commented:
Unfortunately Ms Angle spoke to him in person and the law only applies to phone/airways.
Ashjian is a fake plant by the Reid people. We in Nevada have known that from the beginning – ergo the reason he only has 1% of the vote. There was not and is not a “tea party” as a political party in Nevada. Ashjian just did that to attempt to get some votes so that Harry could assure himself the election. Ashjian was nearly removed from the ballot – by law – because he was accused of bad checks, a felony. That was “taken care of” (we in Nevada know it was Reid but can’t prove it) and as a result remains on the ballot. Ashjian is just another sleezebag business associate in the “real estate/land development” world in Las Vegas. ..the same thing that made Reid and his family rich, check out the LA Times front page stories on Reid and his land deals a few years back. Sharron Angle is precisely correct in blaming Reid for all of Nevada’s foreclosure and bankruptcy problems on Reid. His land speculation was the start of it BEFORE the housing buble destroyed the economy nationwide.
I fail to see how Reid can win when he won’t even appear outside of any metro area. Remember he went to a small town outside Vegas unannounced because he knows he is border-line despised. He can crow and make accusations all he wants, he is dead meat in Nevada.
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
A lot of Libtards and going to be soiling their pink panties on November 2nd. And the women as well.
jeff commented:
Explain to me how this is any different than the republican recruiting homeless people to run in Arizona?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/us/politics/07candidates.html
Ouch!