Angle campaign receives "generous donation" from SarahPAC

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Although Sarah Palin did not endorse Sharron Angle in the Nevada GOP primary race to challenge Majority Leader Harry Reid for his seat in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Palin's political action committee has made a "generous donation" to Angle's campaign and will likely come to Nevada to campaign for the former state assemblywoman, according to a report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

The former Alaska governor is the keynote speaker next Wednesday at the 2010 International Bowl Expo put on by the Bowling Proprietors Association of America at the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Las Vegas Hilton. Palin’s appearance raised the question whether she might be doing or saying anything while in town to advance Angle’s bid to unseat Sen. Harry Reid.

Maybe later but not now, according to Angle campaign spokesman Jerry Stacy.

“Sarah Palin has already funded Sharron Angle’s campaign with a generous contribution, and we will work to coordinate an event at a later date,” Stacy said by email.

He did not elaborate on how much Palin gave and when. Presumably that will show up when both Angle’s campaign and Palin’s political action committee update their public disclosures at the end of the month.

While the first woman to be the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate chose not to endorse a candidate during the Nevada primary, her brother and father supported third-place finisher Danny Tarkanian, son of the legendary UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian.

Update: Angle leads Dirty Harry by 6 points in the latest Rasmussen Reports survey of Nevada's Senate race.

- JP