OT - Is Gunner's Teabagger brother running for office?
Too_Many_Tools
His politics and spending habits are the same.
TMT
Nevada tea party candidate facing felony charges
By KEN RITTER, Associated Press Writer Ken Ritter, Associated Press
Writer
Fri Mar 26, 7:18 pm ET
LAS VEGAS – A Nevada asphalt contractor who faces a legal challenge to
his Tea Party of Nevada candidacy for U.S. Senate was hit Friday with
felony theft and bad check charges in Las Vegas that allege he bounced
a $5,000 business check last year.
Scott Ashjian is one of a record 22 candidates, including 12
Republicans, running for the seat held by Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid, who is seeking a fifth term.
Bernie Zadrowski, head of the Clark County district attorney's office
bad check unit, said he would seek an arrest warrant Monday in Las
Vegas Justice Court. Ashjian could face up to 14 years in state prison
if convicted.
The tea party movement is a disparate coalition of conservative groups
angered by federal spending, rising taxes and the growth and reach of
government. Other tea party activists have been distancing themselves
from Ashjian, and an ad targeting him has been sponsored by the Tea
Party Express, one of the most visible factions of the national tea
party movement.
In a separate matter, a Carson City District Court judge on Friday set
an April 14 hearing on a lawsuit that challenges Ashjian's membership
in the Tea Party of Nevada and his place on the ballot. Documents
filed with the lawsuit appear to show that Ashjian changed his voter
registration on March 2, the day after he filed his declaration of
candidacy.
Ashjian said he's being targeted by unnamed people acting on behalf of
the Republican Party.
"Clearly these people are afraid that I will siphon votes from their
political party and from the Republican Party," he said in a statement
in response to the lawsuit.
The criminal charge in Las Vegas stems from a returned check for
$5,000 written Dec. 7 to a Las Vegas businessman.
Zadrowski, a former Clark County GOP chairman now running for judge,
said party politics had no role in his decision to file criminal bad
check charges against Ashjian.
"We're not doing anything different with this case than we do with any
other $5,000 bad check that comes through the door," the prosecutor
said.
Ashjian, owner of a business called A&A Asphalt, didn't respond
Thursday and Friday to e-mail and telephone messages seeking comment
on the criminal case or an explanation for what public documents
suggest is a pattern of nonpayment of business and personal debts. A
felony conviction would bar him from running for office.
Records show Ashjian lost his state contractor's license Wednesday
after failing to appear for a disciplinary proceeding stemming from a
complaint that he bounced a $981.82 check to a materials supplier last
year. Ashjian also does business as Jon Scott Ashjian.
The Nevada State Contractors Board fined Ashjian $1,500 and ordered
him to pay almost $1,150 in investigative costs, board spokesman Art
Nadler said.
Public documents on file with the Clark County Recorder show Ashjian
also faced foreclosure on home loans totaling almost $1 million, owed
a $200,000 Internal Revenue Service tax debt and faced city nuisance
actions and liens alleging he failed to pay homeowners' dues, a
roofer, and his trash collector.
Chief Egalitarian
"Too_Many_Tools" <too_man...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Could this be Gunner's long lost Teabagger brother running for office?
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> His politics and spending habits are the same.
>
> TMT
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> Nevada tea party candidate facing felony charges
> By KEN RITTER, Associated Press Writer Ken Ritter, Associated Press
> Writer
> Fri Mar 26, 7:18 pm ET
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> LAS VEGAS � A Nevada asphalt contractor who faces a legal challenge to
Nope, that's your turkey baster daddy