It has come to this. Chuck Muth has had enough — as have we all — of the off-kilter malarkey coming out of the Tarkanian campaign. He is adding the feature Tark Tales to his blog.

Last week the Tarkanian campaign suggested that Lowden broke her “no tax pledge” by voting for the $100 per employee business tax as a freshman state senator in 1993. And as usual, the Tarkanian accusation isn’t accurate.

First, the $100 per head employee tax was passed in 1991, before Sue Lowden was ever even elected to the state Senate. So she couldn’t have voted for it even if she wanted to.

Secondly, and as I suspected, the Taxpayer Protection Pledge for state legislators didn’t even exist until 1994, two years AFTER Lowden ran for state Senate – so she couldn’t have signed it because it didn’t even exist.

On another matter, Team Tark announced a fundraising golf tournament yesterday, explaining that “All proceeds from this event will go towards increasing Danny’s lead in both the republican primary and his current 14 point lead over Reid.”

Problem is, no one I know has ever heard of any credible poll showing Danny with a 14 point lead, and the invitation doesn’t identify the source of that number.

You’ll also want to read Baby Tark’s Hatchet Man

We lose faith in candidates over things like this. We already have a Senator who says crazy stuff and we’re just not in the market for more of the same.

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