{"id":1704649,"date":"2022-10-20T17:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704649"},"modified":"2022-10-20T17:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:19:26","slug":"cortez-mastos-onetime-colleague-endorses-gop-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cortez-mastos-onetime-colleague-endorses-gop-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Masto\u2019s Onetime Colleague Endorses GOP Challenger"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fcortez-mastos-onetime-colleague-endorses-gop-challenger%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=1704649&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> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">After working under both Adam Laxalt and Catherine Cortez Masto, Dawn Buoncristiani puts vote behind Laxalt<\/p>\n<p>    Nevada Democratic senator Catherine Cortez Masto \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/anna-allen\/\" title=\"Posts by Anna Allen\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Anna Allen<\/a> \u2022 October 20, 2022 5:02 pm  <\/p>\n<p>A former Nevada deputy attorney general who served under both Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D.) and Republican Adam Laxalt when they were state attorneys general is endorsing Laxalt in his bid to unseat Masto in November.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn Buoncristiani, who worked with four Nevada attorneys general as deputy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgj.com\/story\/opinion\/2022\/10\/19\/worked-4-attorneys-general-and-laxalt-ran-best-office\/10537052002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced her support<\/a> for Laxalt in an opinion piece published Thursday in the\u00a0<em>Reno Gazette-Journal<\/em>. Buoncristiani served under Laxalt when he was Nevada&#8217;s attorney general from 2015 to 2019. Buoncristiani also worked with Cortez Masto during her stint as attorney general from 2007 to 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I observed both candidates firsthand, and I believe Adam Laxalt will be a more professional, innovative, efficient\u00a0and hardworking senator than Catherine Cortez Masto,&#8221; Buoncristiani wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Buoncristiani praised Laxalt&#8217;s work establishing the Committee on Domestic Violence and Office of Military Legal Assistance, emphasizing his &#8220;timeliness and efficiency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know many voters simply want to be sure that their senator\u2019s office staff will pick up the phone when they call, and that their concerns will be addressed in a timely and thorough manner,&#8221; Buoncristiani wrote. &#8220;Well, Adam Laxalt ran the best attorney general office I ever worked in. He took an innovative approach and addressed problems that his predecessors had not. That\u2019s why he has my vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Laxalt is in a tight race against incumbent\u00a0Cortez Masto in what\u00a0<em>RealClearPolitics <\/em>is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/nv\/nevada_senate_laxalt_vs_cortez_masto-7392.html\">calling<\/a> a &#8220;toss up&#8221; race.<\/p>\n<p>Buoncristiani did not comment on\u00a0Cortez Masto&#8217;s job performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Nevada deputy attorney general who served under both Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D.) and Republican Adam Laxalt when they were state attorneys general is endorsing Laxalt in his bid to unseat Masto in November.<br \/>\nThe post Cortez Masto\u2019s Onetime Colleague Endorses GOP Challenger appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":997418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704649","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\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/997418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}