{"id":1634621,"date":"2022-09-06T18:49:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T22:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1634621"},"modified":"2022-09-06T18:49:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T22:49:50","slug":"sisolak-slammed-as-covid-test-scam-biggest-scandal-in-our-history-emerges-in-nevada-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sisolak-slammed-as-covid-test-scam-biggest-scandal-in-our-history-emerges-in-nevada-governors-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisolak Slammed as COVID-Test Scam\u2014\u2018Biggest Scandal in Our History\u2019\u2014Emerges in Nevada Governor\u2019s Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsisolak-slammed-as-covid-test-scam-biggest-scandal-in-our-history-emerges-in-nevada-governors-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1634621&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">Democrat candidates in November races nationwide are seizing on perceived post-Roe repeal momentum to pound away at Republican opponents they say will, whether they admit it or not, ban abortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Incumbent Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nevada\">Nevada<\/a> Gov. Steve Sisolak is following that game plan, regularly attacking GOP challenger Joe Lombardo\u2019s pro-life stance as a wedge in a race projected to be among this fall\u2019s tightest gubernatorial contests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lombardo, the two-term sheriff of Clark County who, with an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, won May\u2019s 10-candidate GOP primary, has not emphasized abortion on his platform nor while stumping.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lombardo\u2019s campaign has mostly hammered away on \u201ckitchen-table issues\u201d such as the cost of gas and groceries, \u201cways to fix the state,\u201d education, and crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Just before Labor Day weekend, however, with the final sprint to Election Day set to begin, the Lombardo campaign introduced a new issue it will pursue in the coming weeks: Scandal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">RGA Nevada PAC, an affiliate of the Republican Governors Association (RGA), in an Aug. 31 $2.5 million ad claims Sisolak fast-tracked permits and applications for \u201ca shady COVID testing company that got 96 percent of their test results wrong\u201d on behalf of a campaign donor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The ad, called \u2018Cronyism,\u2019 says it is a \u201ctale of corruption and cronyism that cost lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The claims are based on a May ProPublica investigation into how Chicago-based Northshore Labs rapidly expanded into Nevada in 2020 without the usual licensing process after hiring Greg and Angelo Palivos to \u201cbuild clientele and manage operations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Peter Palivos, their father, has contributed nearly $50,000 to Sisolak campaigns since 2011, including $38,000 for his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, according to ProPublica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The matter may have gone unnoticed had Northshore\u2019s tests worked, but 96 percent of those used at the University of Nevada at Reno (UNR) and elsewhere did not. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat candidates in November races nationwide are seizing on perceived post-Roe repeal momentum to pound away at Republican opponents they say will, whether they admit it or not, ban abortion. Incumbent Democratic Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak is following that game plan, regularly attacking GOP challenger Joe Lombardo\u2019s pro-life stance as a wedge in a race [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}