{"id":5192,"date":"2010-05-16T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T17:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=5192"},"modified":"2010-05-17T08:08:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T15:08:53","slug":"amodei-elected-nevada-gop-chairman-rumors-of-challenge-by-ricotta-unfounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/amodei-elected-nevada-gop-chairman-rumors-of-challenge-by-ricotta-unfounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Amodei Elected Nevada GOP Chairman, Rumors of Challenge by Ricotta Unfounded"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Phillip Moyer)<\/em> – The Nevada Republican Party elected Mark Amodei its new chairman last night during a special Central Committee meeting at the Sienna Hotel and Casino. Amodei, a former state senator, defeated Clark County Republican Party Political Director David Isbell by a vote of 218 to 54.<\/p>\n

After the election, Amodei said he would focus on moving forward and defeating the Democrats in the upcoming elections. To do this, he says, he will focus on communication and collaboration within the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll raise money, but we don\u2019t need as much money to get our point across as the other side does to hide their record,\u201d Amodei said. \u201cI think the idea is to gather and unify Republicans and other Nevadans for purposes of having an effective voice in November.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amodei had been the only nominee for the position coming into the meeting. Isbell was a last-minute addition and said he hadn\u2019t even decided to run for the position until he was nominated during the meeting.<\/p>\n

Isbell accepted the nomination, he said, because he didn\u2019t want Amodei to go uncontested.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s happened in the past is a lot of people got very frustrated. If we\u2019re just going to appoint someone, it becomes the anointment of some king,\u201d Isbell said. \u201cWhen we actually show democracy, the democratic process, here, people can stay in the party and feel like they own this candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isbell did not expect to actually win the election because he\u2019s not a very prominent member of the party, he said after the vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat [party members] want is someone they can be more confident in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone who was a state senator, they can be much more confident in that than if they have a 28-year old kid who needs to shave,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n

In the days leading up to the meeting, word had spread among some party members that Clark County GOP Vice Chairman Frank Ricotta would run against Amodei. The rumors had spread to the point that Isbell, when introducing himself to the room, commented that he was not, in fact, Ricotta.<\/p>\n

When asked, Ricotta said that while he had considered running after being asked by several party members, he found it more important to help run the party in Clark County.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realize the importance of the county, and at this time I just thought that that was my place,\u201d he said. \u201cI never really intended to run or announced that I was running. I guess the rumor mill ran a little wild at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amodei expressed respect for Ricotta, saying he had been in contact with both him and Clark County GOP Chairman Bob Ruckman in the weeks leading up to the meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur challenges are to go forward, and I\u2019m going to do everything I can do go forward with those guys, along with other county organizational folks both in Clark and in the other counties,\u201d said Amodei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Phillip Moyer) – The Nevada Republican Party elected Mark Amodei its new chairman last night during a special Central Committee meeting at the Sienna Hotel and Casino. Amodei, a former state senator, defeated Clark County Republican Party Political Director David Isbell by a vote of 218 to 54. After the election, Amodei said he would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions\/5196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}