Our Sunday Morning Analysis Series Continues:

I don’t know Moises Denis well, I think we’ve said ‘hello’ to each other maybe twice.  My political perception of him isn’t a good one, though he is a good man by all accounts.  I see so much potential in this guy, but little of value actually done by him for his district.

For some reason, I’ve always gotten a Chauncey ‘Gardiner’ vibe from Mo Denis; the Peter Sellers character in the movie ‘Being There’. It’s a story of a simple gardener whose estate master dies and through happenstance and the misconceptions of others, is somehow mistaken for a great business leader and brilliant mind as he talks about gardening and they all read his discussions about gardens as a gateway into his perceived wealth, eccentricities, and business and political acumen.

‘Being There’ is perhaps Peter Sellers’ finest movie; he’s better known as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series.

I think Mo Denis very much the same type of Chauncey-like accidental politician because I really can’t attach too much accomplishment to him in Carson City, or in his own neighborhood. He’s perfectly comfortable standing quietly in the background letting others haul the heavy water and preferring not to get his hands dirty or to speak up about much of anything at all.

To see the look of terror in his eyes in the presence of Speaker Barbara Buckley speaks to her ruling with an iron fist, and his inability to do anything other than carry out the orders she gave him; Mo Denis trembles like a virgin at a prison picnic and he really hasn’t anything of significant accomplishment in his political life and has never shown one iota of independence or championing for his district’s needs.

He’ll be a fine Nevada state senator; tongue definitely planted firmly in my cheek!

He’ll be replacing dead-weight and political hack, Sen Maggie Carlton, who is so broken up about term-limits, that she just can’t bear that we will enjoy her not being in the Senate anymore, so she is stepping down to the Assembly 14 race, because she really, truly believes we can’t possibly go on without her.

Political hack,  Maggie Carlton;  her current senate seat should have had an Hispanic in it for ten years already, and that she may win this year in the Assembly speaks to how politically and structurally weak our predominately Hispanic neighborhoods are today!

They couldn’t find someone else?  Anyone else but Maggie Carlton?

Well, yes they did!

Choosing to hedge their bets, they’ve also recruited Mr Ellen (Victor) Koivisto; she is termed out of the seat and now has her husband running to replace her; he filed Tuesday continuing the white power-broker stranglehold over the district to the detriment of its rapidly growing minority residents!

This speaks to the institutional racism at NVDEMS that instead of doing the right thing, they preferred a Culinary shill because they don’t want to upset D Taylor so he won’t challenge their other candidates, and the husband of another entrenched dead-weight political hack in Mr Koivisto.

Some of our younger political activists have asked me why ‘two racist, old white woman would deny Hispanics a seat?’ I’ve told them that to call Maggie Carlton a racist is patently unfair, but that calling her brain-dead, self-absorbed, insensitive, and standing in the path of history, was accurate.

The same goes for Mr Koivisto and his wife!

Now there’s also another woman closely associated with the LDS church in the race too.

Once you’re anointed, you’re anointed and to hell with fundamental fairness and bringing up new people who look like the neighborhoods they purport to represent. You’ve got to challenge this BS in primaries and build yourselves to defeat NVDEMS’ institutional racism and drive a stake through its heart.

No one is going to hand you anything and if you want it, you can easily take it if you stand together.  NVDEMS wants dependable hacks that will follow them like lemmings (the very definition of Maggie and Ellen!) and that’s why they’ve warmly embraced Maggie Carlton and Victor Koivisto.

That’s not leadership, that’s dictatorship and brings us back to Mo Denis, who I am inclined to support and give another chance to and plead with him to lead! He was an early Obama supporter and for the first time in his life, went against the political stream in our all Reid Family, all-Hillary caucus, and that took some guts.

Voters love images like this from Mo’s 2008 website! Too bad that won’t translate into votes as his SD will likely score the lowest turnout of this cycle

But when I heard the news, I emailed my allies in Chicago and told them this verbatim in an email from January of 2008, ‘It’s nice to have Denis on-board, but he hasn’t done anything for his district or in Carson City, and he won’t do anything for us either.’

He really didn’t and I hope he steps up now, but he still seems so timid; so afraid to stand up to anyone or for anything.

I watched him at Ruben Kihuen’s launch just standing there like a lump all evening long instead of working the room and saying hello to everyone, so the prognosis today isn’t good.

He actually has one of the state’s very best–if not the best–campaign websites of the cycle! It’s very warm and captures him and is loaded with pics that tell a story about who he is; I’m glad, because his entire district and I would have never known based on his always hiding in the shadows.

It’s excellent work because it tells Mo’s life story in photos and if he uses those same themes in his printed materials, people will actually look at them, if not read them!

http://www.modenis.com/

*Mo took the current homepage down for rework for 2010, but the following link shows where he was in 2008.

The biggest surprise is that Mo Denis has been endorsed by his parents:

http://www.modenis.com/moparents.htm

Senator-elect Denis, you’re going into a session that ends in the number 1—always the most important for any state legislature—can we expect that you will work up the nerve to tell your leadership ‘no’ and hold out until your constituents—yours, not the entire state—are spoken for?

Will you ever say, ‘how come my district is left out…again?’, and hold your vote until they get something in return?

We’ll be watching for any sign of your independence and any sign of true leadership on behalf of your community in the 2011 session.

It’s there, I know it’s in you, may we see it come to life for the benefit of your constituents in your new seat?

Mike Zahara
03072010
www.WatchdogWag.com