{"id":5207,"date":"2010-05-17T08:31:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T15:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=5207"},"modified":"2010-05-18T10:51:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:51:16","slug":"father-of-rape-victim-speaks-out-against-sen-nolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/father-of-rape-victim-speaks-out-against-sen-nolan\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of Rape Victim Speaks Out Against Sen. Nolan"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth)<\/em> \u2013 When Nevada state Sen. Dennis Nolan (R-9) and his Republican primary challenger face off in a debate on Jon Ralston\u2019s \u201cFace-to-Face\u201d program later this week, expect sparks to fly. <\/p>\n

Today the Halseth campaign launched a radio and mail campaign against the liberal incumbent over his relationship with a convicted rapist. Here\u2019s the press release from the campaign:<\/p>\n

\u201cDefending rapists is not okay,\u201d — that is the message being sent to Senator Dennis Nolan from the father of teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by Nolan\u2019s friend in 2004. Voters will also be receiving that message in their mailboxes and on the radio starting this week. <\/p>\n

The radio ad and mail pieces come from the campaign to elect Elizabeth Halseth to Nolan\u2019s seat in the State Senate. Tim Andersen, the father of the teen who was assaulted by Nolan\u2019s friend, Gordon Joseph Lawes, is working with Halseth\u2019s campaign because he wants the public to know that the Senator was a character witness for a rapist. Following the 2008 trial, it took the jury less than two hours to convict Lawes, despite Nolan\u2019s testimony.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want the public to know what he did before they cast their ballots on June 8th,\u201d Andersen said. \u201cWhat kind of person takes the stand to defend a man who raped a teenage girl?\u201d<\/p>\n

Halseth\u2019s campaign manager, David McGowan, says the campaign is glad to give Mr. Andersen the opportunity to tell his story. \u201cPolitics aside, the public needs to hear what happened to this family. They have been through so much in the last six years, we hope that giving them the chance to speak out will allow them to heal,\u201d McGowan said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are plenty of reasons for Republicans to boot Nolan \u2013 Handmaiden for the Nanny State \u2013 from office, but perhaps none more powerful than the one Mr. Anderson represents. <\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how Sen. Nolan tries to spin his support for a sexual predator. It\u2019ll also be interesting to see whether or not he chickens out of his debate on Ralston now that his opponent has kicked him right square in the family jewels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDefending rapists is not okay,\u201d — that is the message being sent to Senator Dennis Nolan from the father of teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by Nolan\u2019s friend in 2004. Voters will also be receiving that message in their mailboxes and on the radio starting this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5209,"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\/5207"}],"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=5207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5216,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions\/5216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}