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Sharron Angle Uses Decoys to Dodge Press

Clever

Sneaks out side door.

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Let’s hope Sharron Angle is as clever at legislating as she is at dodging the press: The Nevada Republican used decoys to distract the press after she spoke at a closed-press event at a Microsoft office in Reno. One of Angle’s aides sat in a car amid a throng of reporters outside and said loudly into his phone, “She’s ready? She’s coming out now?” Two women quickly came out and got into the car; Angle, meanwhile, snuck out a side door. The press did not notice that she left and thought she was still there until one of them snuck inside 30 minutes later and saw she was gone.

Read it at Las Vegas Sun

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