Nevada: Jon Ralston

My colleague Jon Ralston knocked U.S. Sen. John Ensign recently for misattributing a quote. Here’s the background, excerpted from Roll Call’s snarky “Heard on the Hill” column:
And Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) took some knocks this week, too, including a big tsk-tsk from a Las Vegas Sun columnist for erroneously citing Winston Churchill as the source [...]

Well, not really.
On Wednesday afternoon, Jon Ralston reported in Flash: “As much as I had hoped they would have begun the education process earlier - usurping the role Gov. Jim Gibbons has abdicated - legislative Democrats Thursday appear poised to produce some real, substantive plans for the session.”
The key words here are “real” and “substantive.”
Well, [...]

In an interview Wednesday morning with "Face to Face" host Jon Ralston, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Searchlight) refused to back down from comments he made last week to colleague U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) that "I can't stand John McCain."

Instead, he ramped up his criticism of the Arizona U.S. senator and presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

DENVER – One of the Silver State’s noted political observers threw cold water on a surprising poll that showed Democrat Jill Derby running a surprisingly strong challenge to U.S. Rep. Dean Heller (R-Carson City).