Anonymous campaign mailers strike Nev. candidates
By Jane Ann Morrison, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Gary Fisher made a choice not to respond to anonymous and apparently illegal mailers and phone calls that resurrected his past battling drugs and alcohol.
In the four-way Democratic primary in Assembly District 34, he lost by a mere 22 votes to Meghan Smith. He violated one basic political tenet: Never let an attack go unanswered.
Brendan Summers, executive director of the Assembly Democratic Caucus and adviser to Fisher, did not think the anonymous attacks “made much of a difference in the outcome” although he called then “vile and also clearly illegal under Nevada campaign laws.”
He said a response would have only served to give the mailers and calls credence.”
There were plenty of negative mailers and calls during the primary. It would be news if there weren’t.
