WEEK IN REVIEW: Reporters’ notebook
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Las Vegas City Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian dropped by the Las Vegas Review-Journal last week to sit down with the editorial board to talk about redevelopment.
After the meeting, a reporter stopped her in the hall to say hello and to ask about her son, Danny Tarkanian, who's running for Congress
"Good luck with your son's campaign," the reporter said.
"He's going to need it," Lois Tarkanian replied, shaking her head.
Indeed, Danny Tarkanian, a Republican, is running for Nevada's new open 4th Congressional District that favors the Democrat, state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford.
Registered Democratic voters outnumber Republicans by 9 percentage points in the district, making the race an uphill fight for Tarkanian. It's also Tarkanian's fourth bid for public office. He lost his first three races.
His mother's blunt response shouldn't come as a complete surprise. She's a Democrat, who backed her son's 2010 U.S. Senate campaign out of family loyalty. But when Danny lost the GOP primary to Sharron Angle, Lois Tarkanian quickly endorsed U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and worked for his re-election.
LAURA MYERS
The pitch from the local PR person involved something that might be of interest to R-J readers: a special, Olympic-style cocktail being served at a local restaurant. In the middle of the release, though, was a passage involving an Alice Cooper performance in Peoria.
So we replied: Huh?
The response: "I am blaming 'AliceGate 2012' on the hacker convention in town. I can't explain it. That verbiage is in absolutely NOTHING I sent out."
Hacker convention you say? Guard your smartphones, watch your Wi-Fi connections and try not to even think about your passwords.
HEIDI KNAPP RINELLA
TWEET OF THE WEEK: (@zachbraff) (the star of "Scrubs" and "Garden State") - @donald_faison and I are coming to Nevada this saturday to register voters. Get ready Vegas, we're gonna register all over you.
