At least he's learning young....

Too funny. The Nevada Young Republicans are learning a hard lesson in how the GOP works. Didn't they realize that someone always gets left holding the bag? The name of the game is to be the one not holding the hot potato when the party's over.

Nevada's chapter of the Young Republicans has basically imploded, leaving its chairman with up to $25,000 in personal debt and allegations that he mishandled money.

All but three people have resigned from the statewide group, but the fallout could prove increasingly embarrassing to the entire state Republican Party.

Today, the chairman of the group, Reno resident Nathan Taylor, plans to hold a press conference attacking three of the state's party leaders -- Sen. John Ensign, Rep. Jim Gibbons and Rep. Jon Porter.

Taylor argues that the state's Republican delegation should have helped him fund the national Young Republican convention held last week at Mandalay Bay.

"I've got bills at the hotel I can't pay," said Taylor, a 29-year-old political science senior at UNR who said he had to quit his food service job and drop classes to plan the convention.

Taylor estimates that the convention, attended by about 600 people from around the nation, is at least $10,000 -- and up to $25,000 -- in the red.

As the chairman, he said he'll personally have to cough up the cash.

"It's a really sad day when my congressmen and my senator, who are sitting on millions, can't cut me a check for $25,000," Taylor said. "I don't think I'm asking for much."

UPDATE: Looks like the stuff's hitting the fan in New Jersey, too.

The head of that state's Young Republicans thought he'd take action, rather than just sit around and whine about being broke. As he wrote to the head of the state's GOP, "I would like your campaign to cut the NJ College Republicans a nice check, since his campaign is going to be our primary concern this fall and we are going to need resources in place for our recruitment drive inAugust-September to help Forrester with ground troops. "

To make a longish story short, they pretty much told the greedy little pissant to get stuffed. But that's what you get when you recruit young brownshirts who idolize corrupt politicians like Tom DeLay.