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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Republicans who supported Ron Paul in last year's GOP presidential contest announced a political action committee Monday to oppose the U.S. Senate bid of former state party chairwoman Sue Lowden.
Robert Holloday, spokesman for the Fair Nevada Elections PAC, said Lowden's handling of last year's state convention when delegate selections were stopped amounted to betrayal.
“Sue Lowden's leading role in improperly halting the delegate election disqualifies her for any position of trust in government,” Holloday said. “Our group hopes to raise awareness of the dismal record of Sue Lowden and to oppose her election to the Senate.”
Lowden's critics are “exercising their rights to do this,” said Robert Uithoven, Lowden spokesman. “It doesn't change what we're doing in this campaign.”
Lowden acknowledges that some Republicans supported Paul and she will try to get their support, he said.
Nevada's 2008 delegation dispute began when Paul supporters were poised to win delegates at the state party convention in Reno and the party abruptly shut down the convention.
Later attempts to reconvene failed because it couldn't get enough Republicans to attend, and the state party selected delegates to the national convention. The Paul supporters held a rogue convention and named their own delegation, but the Republican National Committee ruled that it wasn't unauthorized.
The RNC then helped broker a compromise announced two days before the national convention in St. Paul, Minn., where Arizona Sen. John McCain received the nomination. At the same time, the RNC Committee on Contests issued a scathing report that slammed the Nevada GOP for appointing, rather than electing, its 34 delegates and 31 alternates.
Lowden, a former Nevada state senator and Miss America contestant in 1973, stepped down as the state GOP leader on Sept. 30, a day before announcing her intent to seek the Republican nomination to unseat Harry Reid, D-Nev., the Senate majority leader.
Other Republicans in the field include state Sen. Mark Amodei, Reno attorney Chuck Kozak, Danny Tarkanian of Las Vegas, former state Assemblywoman Sharron Angle and Wall Street investment banker John Chachas.
Robert Holloday, spokesman for the Fair Nevada Elections PAC, said Lowden's handling of last year's state convention when delegate selections were stopped amounted to betrayal.
“Sue Lowden's leading role in improperly halting the delegate election disqualifies her for any position of trust in government,” Holloday said. “Our group hopes to raise awareness of the dismal record of Sue Lowden and to oppose her election to the Senate.”
Lowden's critics are “exercising their rights to do this,” said Robert Uithoven, Lowden spokesman. “It doesn't change what we're doing in this campaign.”
Lowden acknowledges that some Republicans supported Paul and she will try to get their support, he said.
Nevada's 2008 delegation dispute began when Paul supporters were poised to win delegates at the state party convention in Reno and the party abruptly shut down the convention.
Later attempts to reconvene failed because it couldn't get enough Republicans to attend, and the state party selected delegates to the national convention. The Paul supporters held a rogue convention and named their own delegation, but the Republican National Committee ruled that it wasn't unauthorized.
The RNC then helped broker a compromise announced two days before the national convention in St. Paul, Minn., where Arizona Sen. John McCain received the nomination. At the same time, the RNC Committee on Contests issued a scathing report that slammed the Nevada GOP for appointing, rather than electing, its 34 delegates and 31 alternates.
Lowden, a former Nevada state senator and Miss America contestant in 1973, stepped down as the state GOP leader on Sept. 30, a day before announcing her intent to seek the Republican nomination to unseat Harry Reid, D-Nev., the Senate majority leader.
Other Republicans in the field include state Sen. Mark Amodei, Reno attorney Chuck Kozak, Danny Tarkanian of Las Vegas, former state Assemblywoman Sharron Angle and Wall Street investment banker John Chachas.
