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Sharron Angle (born 1949) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Nevada Assembly from 1999 to 2005. She is a candidate in the 2010 Republican Primary for the United States Senate seat held by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Personal life

Angle was born in Klamath Falls, Oregon but moved to Reno, Nevada when she was 3 years old. Her father is a Navy veteran of World War II and served in the Navy Reserve during the Korean War. Angle attended public school in Reno and later obtained a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Nevada. She married her husband Ted during her senior year of college in 1970, with whom she has two children and ten grandchildren. After graduating from college, Angle worked as a substitute teacher for 25 years, ran a small Christian school for two years, and taught for five years at Western Nevada Community College. Angle subscribes to the belief system of Southern Baptist.

Political career

Nevada Assembly

Angle was elected to the Nye County School Board of Trustees in 1990, and won election to the State Assembly in 1998. She served in the Assembly until 2005.

2006 run for U.S. Congress

On August 15, 2006 Angle narrowly lost the primary for U.S. Congress in Nevada's 2nd congressional district which was vacated by Rep. Jim Gibbons. Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller received 24,781 votes to Angle's 24,353. Gibbons' wife Dawn, a former State Assemblywoman herself, finished with 17,328 votes. On August 25, Angle called for a new primary election because of cases in Washoe County, where Angle was the strongest, where people allegedly could not initially vote because of workers who did not show up on election day. On September 1, the Carson District Judge denied Angle's appeal for a new election.

2010 run for U.S. Senate

Main article: United States Senate election in Nevada, 2010

On April 15, 2010 Angle received an endorsement for the US Senate race from the Tea Party Express at a rally in the nation's capital. On April 16, 2010 Angle received an endorsement from conservative talk radio personality Mark Levin.

Scientology Controversy

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In 2003, Angle arranged a trip to an Ensenada, Baja California prison which employed an organization with affiliations to Scientology, called the "Second Chance Program". Angle sponsored legislation aimed at placing this program in women's prisons in Nevada. Trips to the prison were privately funded by an individual named Russell Suggs, a businessman from Arizona with connections to the Church of Scientology. According to the Associated Press, Suggs did not wish for his name to be associated with funding the trip for the lawmakers to visit the Scientology-affiliated drug rehab program in Mexico. "He is approached not only by non-profits, but politicians as well. And he doesn't like his name spread around, but he would let it go if it would help me and the Second Chance Program," said Angle.

Angle asserted to the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the Second Chance Program's ties to Scientology were not related to her efforts to promote the organization, commenting, "I don't have any inclination toward Scientology. But when something works, you have to take a look at it." On February 17, 2003, Angle said she would end her efforts to have women inmates take part in the drug rehab program affiliated with Scientology. Angle stated her intention to cancel the March 1, 2003 trip funded by Suggs for politicians to travel to visit the Second Chance Program at a prison in Ensenada, Mexico. On Angle's support for the Scientology-affiliated program, the Las Vegas Sun reported in 2010, that the politician "vehemently defends the program as an innovative approach that could have changed lives in Nevada".

When asked at a Republican political mixer event held in Winnemucca, Nevada about something untrue being stated about her, Angle identified the rumor that she is affiliated with Scientology as a concern. The American Spectator reported that Angle's support of the Church of Scientology has plagued her political campaign for US Senate, resulting in media coverage focusing on her connections to the organization. During a KVBC-hosted debate on the program Face to Face with Jon Ralston with other candidates including John Chachas, Chad Christensen, Sue Lowden and Danny Tarkanian, Angle was asked by journalist Ralston "about recent whispers that an Angle legislative proposal to explore a program of massages and sweat-boxes for Nevada prisons was a strange foray into Scientology." Angle responded, "This program had a recividism rate of less than 10 percent. They aren’t massages. ... it was more of a karate chop. The sauna was a sweat box. When you’re in there with 30 guys it’s not exactly a sauna." Angle stated that the controversy with Scientology had been "largely distorted". Publications including the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and The Huffington Post analyzed the 2010 Senate campaign; both noted that Sue Lowden took out a political ad criticizing Angle for the candidate's associations with Scientology. The ad stated, Angle "pushed a bill favored by the Church of Scientology"; Regarding criticisms faced relating to Scientology, Angle told the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "The way to ruin a conservative is to pass them off as part of the radical fringe. They always try to marginalize me." The New York Times cited Scientology among issues discussed, in a piece on the 2010 Nevada Senate race. Eric Kleefeld wrote an analysis of the race for Talking Points Memo, and stated that "accusations that she has ties to the Church of Scientology", could become a possible "weakness in the race" for Angle. In an analysis reporting on the candidate, Mother Jones noted that Angle has "taken heat for alleged ties to the Church of Scientology."

References

  1. ^ http://www.sharronangle.com/about.html
  2. Pappas, Alex (May 21, 2010). "All the Difference". The Daily Caller. dailycaller.com. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
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  4. "State of Nevada 2006 Official Statewide Primary Election Results August 15, 2006".
  5. Nevada Congressional Primary Candidate Calls For New Election KRNV-4 August 28, 2006
  6. Sharron Angle Gets Tea Party Endorsement KVVU Las Vegas April 15, 2010
  7. "Mark Levin hosts Sharron Angle Friday, www.americanconservativedaily.com, April 2010.
  8. ^ Vogel, Ed (February 14, 2003). "Lawmakers urged to skip trip to view prison program". Las Vegas Review-Journal. p. 7B. Retrieved 2010-04-18.
  9. ^ Vogel, Ed (February 18, 2003). "Quest for anti-drug program dies". Las Vegas Review-Journal. p. 4B.
  10. ^ Schwartz, David McGrath (April 18, 2010). "Will the Tea Party Express stop in D.C.?". Las Vegas Sun. www.lasvegassun.com. Retrieved 2010-04-18. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  11. ^ Kieckhefer, Ben (Associated Press) (February 12, 2003). "Nevada Assemblywoman reveals trip sponsor". The Reno Gazette-Journal.
  12. Vogel, Ed (February 15, 2003). "Scientology rehab: Guinn"s office not interested". Las Vegas Review-Journal. p. 2B. Retrieved 2010-04-18.
  13. Associated Press (February 18, 2003). "Quest for Scientology-based drug program dies". KRNV.
  14. Holzel, Dee (April 30, 2010). "Candidates meet & greet at WRW mixer". Silver Pinyon Journal. silverpinyon.com. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
  15. "Harry Dirty". The American Spectator. spectator.org. May 3, 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-03.
  16. ^ Coolican, J. Patrick (May 18, 2010). "GOP Senate candidates keep it civil during TV debate". Las Vegas Sun. www.lasvegassun.com. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
  17. Myers, Laura (May 19, 2010). "GOP Senate hopefuls debate who has best chance to beat Reid". Las Vegas Review-Journal. www.lvrj.com. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
  18. Myers, Laura (May 21, 2010). "Angle irks some GOP insiders". Las Vegas Review-Journal. www.lvrj.com. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
  19. Linkins, Jason (May 21, 2010). "Sue Lowden Turns On Sharron Angle In Nevada Primary Race". The Huffington Post. www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2010-05-21.
  20. Evan, Lehmann (May 26, 2010). "Reid, in Fistfight, Could Take More Punches From Climate Bill". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2010-05-26. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  21. Kleefeld, Eric (May 27, 2010). "Sharron Angle Attacked For Alleged Scientology Ties". Talking Points Memo. TPM Media LLC. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
  22. Kroll, Andy (May 28, 2010). "Can the Tea Party Steal Nevada?". Mother Jones. motherjones.com. Retrieved 2010-05-28.

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