A few items of interest from the Silver State:

  • A Reno publication found a statement by House Republican leader John Boehner that may help Harry Reid with some of Nevada’s anti-Yucca Mountain voters. Boehner said last week that if Reid is defeated, the GOP will do its best to resurrect and push forward on the Yucca nuclear waste repository project. Reid has been a vocal opponent of the project since the beginning but polls show that while most Nevadans oppose a nuclear storage site, it is not a vote-moving issue.
  • Dina Titus’s spokesman defends her new ad.
  • New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu blasted GOP senate candidate Sharron Angle in a statement to the Times-Picayune yesterday. It is just amazing that a mayor in a southeastern state is so current on the Harry Reid campaign’s press releases and ads which this week criticized Angle for some 2005 remarks she made expressing concerns about where federal Hurricane Katrina aide dollars would be going.
  • In other not-so-astounding news, the Nevada gaming industry is backing Harry Reid.