Conservative Eyes Moving Up to Senate »
(Sparks, NV) – Five-term Assemblyman Don Gustavson has announced that he will seek the Nevada State Senate seat in District 2 overseeing portions of Lyon, Storey, and Washoe Counties. The seat is being vacated by Republican Senator Maurice Washington due to term limits. Gustavson, a Republican, currently represents Assembly District 32.
McNaught Eyes Senate Run »
(Las Vegas – NV) – Republican businessman Patrick McNaught has announced his candidacy for Nevada State Senate District 12 in Clark County. The seat is currently vacant due to the resignation of GOP Sen. Warren Hardy shortly after the 2009 legislative session.
“I plan on offering voters a real choice between the status-quo of supporting nearly every spending budget, every tax increase and with little effort to reform our broken education system and [...]
Heck Stands Up for Taxpayers »
GOP gubernatorial candidate Joe Heck joined Gov. Jim Gibbons this week in signing the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. In doing so, Dr. Heck issued the following statement:
“Some say this pledge ‘ties the hands of the governor,’ rather I have come to believe that it is a way to prevent elected officials from balancing the budget on the backs of hardworking Nevadans and their small businesses.
“As I was growing up, my father always told me that the [...]
Ellis to Run for Assembly »
(Las Vegas, NV) – Republican Tibi Ellis, a healthcare professional who immigrated to the United States from Venezuela as a young teenager, has announced her candidacy for Nevada State Assembly District 5 in Las Vegas. The seat is currently held by Democrat Assemblywoman Marilyn Dondero-Loop.
“I’ve grown increasingly frustrated and alarmed at politicians putting more and more of the financial burden on Nevada’s families and small businesses” said Ellis in a written statement. “Raising [...]
Raggio’s RINOs »
“State Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio warned today that a citizens committee expected to propose changes in taxes and state spending to improve the quality of life in Nevada must not be filled with ‘tax users’ for its recommendations to win public acceptance,” reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal this week.
“The stakeholder group cannot be lopsided,” Raggio said. “It has to be balanced. It cannot be tilted in favor of whose who receive taxes, rather than [...]
Sandoval and the Tax Pledge »
Immediately upon announcing as a Republican candidate for governor last week, former federal judge Brian Sandoval declared that the would not sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge promising voters that as governor he would “oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes.”
Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson!
Now, if Sandoval comes up with a legitimate reason for not signing the Pledge even though he has already said in interviews that he will not raise taxes, [...]
Time to Break Out the Pink Slips »
Immediately following a meeting with Gov. Jim Gibbons last week, Democratic legislators, as well as some moderate Republicans, emerged and proclaimed adamantly that the state budget couldn’t be cut any further.
Wow, talk about broken records and boys who cry wolf.
These legislators have been saying there’s nothing more to cut since….well, forever. Yet somehow they keep finding things to cut, and frankly, no one’s noticed. Schools are still open. Teachers are still [...]
Pot vs. Booze: The $10,000 Challenge »
(Las Vegas, NV) – The Marijuana Policy Project of Nevada (http://www.mppnv.org) announced on Wednesday that it will pay $10,000 to any Nevadan who can disprove three statements of fact which they say demonstrate that marijuana is objectively and unquestionably safer than alcohol.
MPP-NV manager Dave Schwartz made the announcement at a press conference outside the emergency room entrance of University Medical Center Hospital in Las Vegas. The challenge, Schwartz said, is being used [...]
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