Muth’s Truths weighs in on the Copening vs. Beers match up as well.  It’s all coming together nicely for folks who wonder just why Allison Copening is running for the Nevada State Senate – or what she brings to the table.  From the Review Journal:

The latest dirty trick that caught my attention is a savage and unwarranted assault on state Sen. Bob Beers, R-Las Vegas. I’m no fan of Beers’ conservative views, but as a journalist taught in the old school, I’m even less enamored of misleading and blatantly false campaign charges.

A billboard on Ann Road, just a few blocks from my house, proclaims: “Danger Bob Beers, In bed with the ‘Southern Nevada Porn King.’ ” The phrase “In bed with the ‘Southern Nevada Porn King’ ” is attributed to a newspaper, the Las Vegas Mercury.

I just so happen to have been the first and only editor of the Las Vegas Mercury during its existence from 2001 to 2005, and when I saw the billboard, I could not recall publishing an article describing Beers as being “in bed with the ‘Southern Nevada Porn King.’ ”

That’s because the Mercury never published such an article.

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