{"id":36074,"date":"2017-01-31T23:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T06:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=36074"},"modified":"2017-01-31T23:55:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T06:55:55","slug":"sebelius-who-will-democrats-pick-to-run-for-governor-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/sebelius-who-will-democrats-pick-to-run-for-governor-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebelius: Who will Democrats pick to run for governor in 2018?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36075 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Steve-Sebelius.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"98\" \/>(Steve Sebelius, Las Vegas Review-Journal)<\/strong><\/em> &#8211;\u00a0Nevada\u2019s next election is a long way off on the calendar, but nearing quickly for politicians planning to run for governor.<\/p>\n<p>On the Republican side, Attorney General Adam Laxalt is clearing the field: U.S. Sen. Dean Heller is going to run for re-election, and Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison won\u2019t seek a promotion. Although Laxalt won his 2014 race by just 4,750 votes, he\u2019s been busy keeping his campaign promise to sue the federal government a lot.<\/p>\n<p>On the Democratic side, the 2018 governor\u2019s race will be one of the first tests of the Harry Reid machine after Reid\u2019s retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2014, the machine produced a flop: No high-profile candidates decided to run, and None of These Candidates won the primary. Will there be another flop in 2018? Here\u2019s a few candidates the party might embrace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak<\/strong>. He\u2019s got a sizable war chest, he\u2019s mid-term (in his final term) on the county board, and he\u2019s earned a reputation as a conservative Democrat. He opposed a sales tax increase for police, before a rising crime rate convinced him more cops were needed. (He eventually voted for a tax to hire officers in connection with the NFL stadium sought by Review-Journal owner Sheldon Adelson.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/opinion\/columns\/steve-sebelius\/who-will-democrats-pick-run-governor-2018\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: red;\">Click here to continue reading<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Steve Sebelius, Las Vegas Review-Journal) &#8211;\u00a0Nevada\u2019s next election is a long way off on the calendar, but nearing quickly for politicians planning to run for governor. On the Republican side, Attorney General Adam Laxalt is clearing the field: U.S. Sen. Dean Heller is going to run for re-election, and Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison won\u2019t seek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36074"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36076,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36074\/revisions\/36076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}