Welcome to the Monday open thread. It’s a hot Monday following a hot weekend. I hope you all managed to stay cool!
USA! USA! USA!
The U.S. scores a huge upset in the World Cup by holding England to a 1-1 tie.
There’s some interesting things going on in the Nevada Senate race. Harry Reid is getting support from Nevada Republicans. Republican Reno Mayor Bob Cashell has announced his support for Reid over Angle:
Sharron Angle, the Republican nominee for Senate in Nevada against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, has already lost one big-name Republican in the state: Reno Mayor Bob Cashell, who had previously supported Sue Lowden in the GOP primary — and now says he’s supporting Harry Reid.
“I think Sharron Angle is just too far to the right for me,” Cashell said on Wednesday, in an interview with the local NBC affiliate. “She’s an ultra-right winger. I can’t support her. I don’t support her.”
Cashell elaborated: “Oh she’s wild. She’s wild. I mean, with the wild ideas she has going back to Washington, our state will suffer and we would never get anything done. And so I’m supporting Harry Reid, and I will go all the way for Harry Reid.”
Soon after Cashell announced his support, Nevada’s First Lady Dawn Gibbons announced her support for Reid:
Nevada First Lady Dawn Gibbons, a Republican and soon-to-be-ex-wife of recently defeated Gov. Jim Gibbons, said in an interview she is supporting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s reelection bid because he is the better candidate on the economy. But she thinks Reid (D-NV) has quite a fight on his hands this fall.
Gibbons, a former state assembly member, has been up close and personal with Reid’s Republican rival, Sharron Angle. They served together in the state legislature and were even opponents in a three-way GOP primary for the state’s 2nd Congressional district seat in 2006.
In Nevada Republicans aren’t quite ready to salute and get in line for Sharron Angle.
See also Swing State Project, they have a post on Reid’s lucky break.