The Pahrump Valley Times, a small town newspaper with a very liberal agenda will be quite angry when they found out that the County Assessor, Shirley Matson, will not be recalled. The reason, the opponents of Matson could only get 2000 votes of the about 3000 needed.
From the Los Angeles Times(mind you the PVT and the 2 Las Vegas newspapers have not reported on this yet): For months, the talk of rural Nye County, Nev., has been Shirley Matson's emails. Just before her election in November, the Republican county assessor wrote several emails later obtained by the Pahrump Valley Times.
She referred to Latinos as "locusts" and said pregnant Latinas were carrying "anchor babies" -- and those were her more mundane conclusions.
Once elected, Matson emailed the county sheriff with her fears that "Mexican/Latino, non-English speaking" construction workers were building a nearby jail. That led to a public flogging by her fellow Republicans on the County Commission. It also spurred a recall effort by resident Stephanie Lopez, who runs the Facebook profile Positive Pahrump.
The backlash against Matson was striking, given that Pahrump, the county's largest town, had recently been a hotbed of anti-immigrant furor. In 2006, the town board voted to make English the official language of Pahrump and bar residents from flying a foreign flag without a U.S. flag near it. (The ordinance was later rescinded.)
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/10/nevada-illegal-immigration-2.html
First, because of the clearly extreme biased reporting by Matt Ward and others at the PVT, you really have to wonder if the e-mails that Matson supposedly sent were accurate and in context. Because the PVT lost all objectivity in this story, you really have to wonder if they made things up.
The recall effort was pretty pathetic- gathering, at best 2000 signatures and probably a lot less. While The recall effort had the endorsement of Matt Ward and the other writers and editors at the PVT, Matson also had her supporters and apparently she has more supporters than the PVT and the 2 dozen liberals in Nye County want to believe.
Yes, some of the e-mails were wrong, no doubt about that. however, what is wrong with asking if there any illegals working on the Nye Country Courthouse project? That is the job of elected officials to ask questions like that.
The writers of the Pahrump Valley Times at this moment are probably at the Terrible Casino bar drowning ther sorrows because they actually felt like they could influence people with their activist news/editorial stories in one. Well,the public has spoken in Pahrump and the liberals lose another round.
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