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In response to the Review Journal on September 19th
Monday, 25 September 2006

This is in response to the article written by Erin Neff and printed in the Las Vegas Review Journal on September 19th 2006 titled

"Some candidates just spooky".

Original article text can be found here. 

Note: The Review Journal did print a partial correction shown below.

 CORRECTION -- 9/23/06
The political and military background of 1st Congressional District candidate Kenneth Wegner was incorrect in Tuesday's Erin Neff column. Wegner sought election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, not the 3rd Congressional District, and he served in the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

 

 Original Article displayed in normal text - Mr. Wegner's rebuttal in italics.

 RJ/Neff:  I first met Ken Wegner two years ago, when he tried unsuccessfully to win the Republican nomination in the 3rd Congressional District. He's wearing a suit this year, cleaning up enough to possibly draw more than 30 percent of the vote against Democratic incumbent Shelley Berkley.

Mr. Wegner: None needed - Retracted on 9/23/06. Mr. Wegner ran for Senate in 2004.

 

RJ/Neff: During a recent Review-Journal editorial board meeting, he kept using the collective "we" to describe the warrant work he does each night. "When we call dispatch," or, "We pulled a guy off a lunch cart." It was never clear, however, who he was working with as a bail enforcement agent or who was paying him for cuffing bad guys.

Mr. Wegner: The "we" I am referring to are the various different bail enforcement agents and bail bond's companies I am affiliated with. If she would have asked, I could have provided her with an extensive list like the National Fugitive Recovery Agency and Bad Boy Bail Bonds LLC. I have been licensed by the State of Nevada to perform this work since October 1st 2004. My Nevada Lic. Number 200955

 

 RJ/Neff: At one point he referred to his job as "volunteer warrant service" and said he went to an academy at community college for 2 1/2 years to get licensed.

Mr. Wegner: I attended CCSN and graduated with an Associate Of Arts Degree December 23, 199 and complete Bail Enforcement Training on October 1st, 2004.

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RJ/Neff:  Hmm. In an interview for the Review-Journal's voter guide prior to the primary election, he said he had attended UNLV for two years, studying education and history.

 Mr. Wegner: I attended UNLV from 1998 to 1999 and have received a total of  27 Semester units not including the 93.5 units transferred from other schools.

 

 RJ/Neff:  Describing his military service, Wegner said he was in, then got discharged and "went all over the world to places I've never been or seen," before re-enlisting for the 1992 Gulf War. Spooky.

Mr. Wegner: What's so Spooky about server my country in times of war? I believe that military service is a privilege I am honored to have been a part of defending my country

 

RJ/Neff  Then there's the little question about why he wouldn't accept any campaign contributions from political action committees or community groups such as Nevada Concerned Citizens. I asked him why he returned NCC's check."I have a really cute secretary," Wegner responded, using an analogy comparing campaign fundraising to extramarital temptation. "My wife's had a few kids, doesn't have a great body anymore and my secretary is really hot.

"It's that first kiss that's going to kill you," he continued. "My secretary just wants a kiss."

A slippery slope indeed.

Mr. Wegner: What I was explaining to her was that the current state of political campaign fundraising in this nation is equivalent to flirting with someone ‘not your wife'. Once you start down that path of accepting money from special interest groups, your integrity and loyalties change.

I personally find it hard to believe that she is trying to paint me as some sort of wacko when I am clearly stating I will not accept money from any Special Interest Group because when you accept money from a PAC like Nevada Concerned Citizens your loyalties change. I also want to be known I never received a check from the Nevada Concerned Citizens Group but I have returned checks from other PAC's even when their views are aligned with mine.

Campaign Finance Reform starts with me!

Last Updated ( Monday, 25 September 2006 )
 
Why I am running for office?
Tuesday, 16 May 2006

WHY RUN FOR OFFICE?

 

I run for public office because our country is in serious trouble.  It needs to be fixed.

I keep looking for the next political candidate who thinks like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Ike Eisenhower or John Kennedy.  I keep searching, but they're not to be found.  These were all great men who meant something to history.  Ask a Democrat; ask an Independent or a Republican.  They'll all know of these pillars in our history and of their accomplishments that shaped this nation.

Good people are now afraid to run for office because of the intimidation of the news media. They fear the mud-slinging attacks that will be levied upon them and their families by unethical political opponents.  It's time we put aside the partisanship of political parties, and stop focusing on the "R" or the "D" appearing after a candidate's name.  We need to care about America - OUR AMERICA!

We all know the places from where illegal drugs come, yet our current administration will take only token action to stem the flow.  We know that over 7.2 million good working-class jobs have been taken by illegal aliens.  Our nation's budget deficit is so overwhelming that our citizens can't even comprehend the depth of it.  Our fractured health-care system makes it impossible for seniors and veterans to get the medical treatment they desperately need, and health insurance costs has sky-rocketed to the point of being cost-prohibitive.  Our government gives corporations tax incentives to take their production capability overseas, again robbing our men and women the opportunity for meaningful employment.  Politicians take money from PACs and special interest groups and then involve themselves in corrupt activities to repay the debt.  Our leadership involves us in wars but then withholds the support our service members need to prevail, even though we have the capacity to succeed in all conflicts.  We give foreign aid to our enemies.  Our tax system continues to bankrupt the middle class.  Our education system leaves our youth uneducated.  In the midst of it all, illegal aliens receive greater benefits more easily than the legitimate citizens of our once great nation.

If you ask me why I run for public office, these are but a few of the many reasons.  I want to help stop the decline of this country.  I am looking for the next McKinley, Eisenhower, or Kennedy, and I know the next great leader is out there!  Perhaps if people see that I'm willing to give my all, then that next great leader will be willing to step forward.  I have a desire for neither enrichment nor fame, but only to serve the cause of restoring this country to its position of honorable leadership and prosperity.

God bless our troops, and God bless America!

 

Kenneth Wegner

 
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