I Want To Fire All Government Workers »
(Warner Todd Huston) – We conservatives are fond of wanting to oust everyone in office and for wanting to “vote the scoundrels out.” But, I’d like to add one more level to the throw-them-out-of-government arena. Let’s fire every government worker from the smallest village receptionist or sewer worker to the staffers of the highest Senator and every menial clerk and recalcitrant paper shuffler in between.
State Treasurer Grilled Over Health of Scholarship Fund »
(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – When the Legislature adjourned its special session to balance the budget on March 1, lawmakers went home believing they had ensured the financial viability of the Millennium Scholarship program through 2014. But the program, hit by declining tobacco settlement revenues and the diversion of financial support to help fill a more than $800 million budget shortfall, remains in jeopardy. The Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee was told today the proposal to [...]
The GOP’s Ugly Choice in the Guv Primary »
(Chuck Muth) – What’s a good Nevada Republican to do with the mess that is the GOP gubernatorial primary? The roster, for the record: incumbent Gov. Jim Gibbons, former North Las Vegas Mayor Mike Montandon, and former state assemblyman-turned-attorney general-turned-gaming commissioner-turned-federal judge-turned private citizen Brian Sandoval. Of course, the first person to blame for this mess is Gov. Gibbons. Had he not bungled his administration from the get-go, odds are Montandon wouldn’t have challenged him. [...]
Mike Montandon’s New Media Dreamin’ »
(Elizabeth Crum/Nevada News Bureau) – Is he crazy like a fox? Or just crazy? That was the gist of a series of questions I posed to Mike Montandon today during a Nevada News Bureau-hosted conference call with a few bloggers and reporters. Acknowledging that his 6-point lead over Rory Reid in a head-to-head is “attributable to Rory’s apparent lack of popularity” and that he still has a tall hill to climb in the primary, Montandon [...]
Montandon, the Only Electable Conservative? »
(Mike Chamberlain) – With his new campaign slogan, that’s what former North Las Vegas mayor Mike Montandon wants to convince GOP voters he is. Montandon participated in a conference call with journalists and bloggers moderated by the Nevada News Bureau this afternoon. The slogan grew out of what Montandon said is the disenchantment of conservative groups he’s met with on the trail who claim to agree with Governor Jim Gibbons’s principles but say they will [...]
Nevada Senate: Reid’s Support Still Frozen at Around 40% »
(Rasmussen Reports) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s support remains frozen again this month around 40%, while two of his chief Republican opponents continue to draw over 50% of the vote in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race.
Nevada should quit protecting bad teachers »
(Patrick R. Gibbons/Nevada Policy Research Institute) – Which industry in Nevada terminates less than one percent of its employees for poor performance, incompetence or criminal behavior? If you said “Public Education,” give yourself a gold star. According to the Center for American Progress, a left-of-center think tank, and the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, Nevada’s school districts terminated or failed to renew the contracts of just 0.2 percent of “untenured teachers” [...]
Sparks, Accusations Fly over Cancelled GOP Guv Debate »
(Elizabeth Crum) – A few minutes after I wrote that I had heard (from a source who has never steered me wrong, or I would not have posted it) that Gibbons and Sandoval were out of this Friday’s debate, Sandoval’s spokesperson, Mary-Sarah Kinner, called and said the only reason her candidate was not appearing at the Orleans this Friday was because KDWN had canceled the gubernatorial portion of debate (back in March, she said). “That’s [...]
Tea Party Leader’s Anger is Brewing with National Tea Party Group »
(Elizabeth Crum) – Wowza. Debbie Landis, a Tea Party uber activist-organizer — she is the founder of a 501(c)4 and website called AngerIsBrewing.com and the organizer of last Friday’s debate in Reno — is rather displeased with the Angle-endorsing Tea Party Express (TPE) peeps right now. Seems TPE sent out a press release “defending” Anger is Brewing from a “whisper campaign” without bothering to name their source, verify their facts or get a comment from [...]
Nevada Vision Stakeholders and the Republican Primaries »
(Todd Taxpayer Bailey) – For a second time on April 27, I challenged my opponent in the race for Senate District 4, Ben Kieckhefer, to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. It is simply not enough to make empty verbal promises to the voters in Senate District 4, or anywhere in Nevada, on the topic of taxes. Too many political leaders in the Nevada Legislature left their empty written and verbal promises on taxes at election [...]
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