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Alan Stock 0:00
Today is Thursday. So it’s Nevada news and views Thursday. If you want to find out more about Nevada news and views, the the news and the commentary that comes from a great source, local, statewide and national, of course, go to no Nevada news and views, calm. Nevada news and views.com. Joining us today on behalf of Nevada news and views and his campaign to become our next state senator from the from the Eighth District is George Harris. How you doing?
George Harris 0:31
Hey, bud. How are you? Thank you for having me. We appreciate it.
Alan Stock 0:34
I appreciate you being with me. Very, very much. Lot of stuff going on today, I want to get talk about your campaign. I do want to talk about a couple of other things. First, real quick, because you’ve written a lot of great things for Nevada, news and views, and one of the most important things you can write, you’ve written about isn’t even about your race, and that’s about the well, I’m going to save that one for later on, because I want to talk about the one you wrote regarding Dina Titus and others talking about gas prices and how the President and the Iran war is to blame for all The high price in gas. But the truth is, is that long before this war ever started, our gas prices in Nevada were higher than any other place in the nation, except for California. And there’s a reason for that. Tell us about it.
George Harris 1:33
Well, look Gavin Newsom’s policies, and he’s forcing, he’s forcing refineries to close because their policies are so egregious that that there’s no way they can stay open. They can’t, they can’t, they can’t make a property. So every time a refinery closes, and by the way, there’s going to one, one’s going to be closing in, may it, it, it squeezes the straws that come up into Nevada. You know, it’s a pipeline. There’s a pipeline from California up into Nevada. And the pipeline, you know, the gas stations here, and the fuel companies here, Las Vegas, petroleum, terribles, they all buy their, their, their, their gas from these pipelines. And they compete almost on an hourly basis to get this gas, you know. And these policies are killing they’re just killing Nevada, and we’re going to, unfortunately, you know, I’m just telling you, our own politicians, Republicans included, they’ve kicked this down the football field for the past five years. They’ve known about this problem for five years. They could have, they could have started working on another pipeline from from Salt Lake City into northern Northern Nevada, into West Windover. And the problem is, it’s a very complex problem. They don’t understand it. The people in the legislature might be nice Alan, but most of them are activists or retired bureaucrats. They don’t understand complicated issues. When I when I’m elected, and I get up there, I’m going to be one of four business people in the legislature. That’s that does not bode well for taxpayers, because you need people up there that understand complex issues.
Alan Stock 3:15
The governor has already, at his credit, is the first governor that we’ve had Democrat or Republican, and as far back as I can remember, since I’ve been here, who’s actually reached out and trying to get alternative sources to for gas coming in. He’s trying to get more coming in from Utah, and he’s talking to other states as well. And the reason that California does this not just a hurt Nevada. They’re not doing it. Or what they’re trying to do is hurt their own people. So the people will be motivated in California to want to buy electric cars.
Alan Stock 3:52
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George Harris 3:54
This is a far left policy to get people out of traditional fuel cars and put them into electric cars. And the problem is, in California, they’ve got well over 240,000 EV cars, and they’ve have so many EV cars, it’s now affecting their power grid, and they seriously, they have to do brown outs just to charge cars.
Alan Stock 4:19
This is absolutely amazing. I want to talk about something else real quick, too. I want to get to a lot of these things. Steven Horsford is come out, and he’s actually blasted the no tax on tips. He voted against no tax on tips. Of all states in the union, we have more people working for tips here than probably any other state, probably all the other states combined. He came out and voted against the no tax on tips bill. What kind of mentality is that? Why would he do something like that to hurt the people who are in his own district?
Alan Stock 4:56
Because he doesn’t care about the people look, I’m running for states and. In dissertation, people ask me, oh, look, I’m 65 years old. I’m probably going to do one term. I’m only going to represent taxpayers. I don’t need anything from anybody. Stephen Horsford is part of a far left mentality, and it’s a cultural war. It’s a cultural war. I don’t know any other way to tell you, but he’s far left. He doesn’t like America. He is, he is a reprobate. He’s, he’s, he’s morally defunct. I mean, you could sit this, this, this guy shouldn’t be in office. But you know, during election time because, because Republicans don’t get behind their candidates, he puts on a bunch of slick ads that make him look like a business guy, and he talks about creating jobs. He’s never created a job in his life. He’s never signed the front of a paycheck. He’s a worker, you know, and there’s nothing wrong with being a worker, but look in these complex problems where they affect how people live and they affect families. You’ve got to have people that are elected that understand the unintended consequences of some of their some of their deeds. I mean, you know, if you look at some of the stuff these guys introduce, it might it might look good on the outside, but when you dig into it, the unintended consequences will damage families, and I’m not going to do that. I’m not going to allow anybody to damage families anymore.
Alan Stock 6:27
Why he? I don’t understand, really, why he would vote against this. This is an insane thing. I mean, everyone I’ve talked to thinks it’s a great Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives. They all think that was a great idea. The One of the problems is it doesn’t go far enough. It only goes, Oh,
George Harris 6:44
You want to know why he voted against it? That’s a very simple thing, because it wasn’t, it was Trump’s idea. Listen, if Trump, if Trump, cured cancer tomorrow, the Democrats would hold the press conference saying Trump put 1000s of doctors out of work.
Alan Stock 6:57
Yes, you’re, you’re, you are. So right on that. And I want you,
George Harris 7:01
I mean, that’s so So, I mean, not to be but that is the reason he voted against it. There’s no other
Alan Stock 7:06
stay with me, because I want to talk about some of the other issues in the campaign that you’re running in for district eight, State Senate candidate George Harris. Great candidate for that. We’re behind him 100% we’re going to continue our discussion next right here on Vegas at eight and a good morning. Great to have you with us. We’ve got George Harris joining us. He’s running for the eighth state senate district, and district eight for the state senate. And George appreciate taking time to join us. This morning. We talked about tax and tips and and Horsford being against it and and we we understand about the gas situation. What are the other major issues that you’re addressing in this campaign?
George Harris 7:49
Well, school choice is, is, is one of the issues I want to put I want 400 more cops for Clark County, and I also want to build a new substation up in Summerland, down, hopefully, in Downtown Summerlin. And look, can this happen? I say can happen. There are people that say it can’t happen. But
Alan Stock 8:13
why would people you know can’t happen? Why would people say it can’t happen?
George Harris 8:17
Oh, they say you got to raise taxes to have more cops. You don’t have to raise taxes. You got to know how to be a business person and go look at budgets. I’m sure that these townships, they have Winchester and Paradise Township and Arden Township. I’m sure the county’s been hiding money in those townships forever. I know there’s money that’s been hidden over at the airport. I mean, look, the airport gets a lot of money and and it brings it brings tourists in. So that should be a pot we can take money out of to fund new cops.
Alan Stock 8:51
Well,
George Harris 8:51
look, we need to get we need to get Metro. We need to get Metro its own autonomy. Metro doesn’t it’s wrong that Metro has to, has to be held hostage by the city and the county on their budgets. It’s just wrong. I mean,
Alan Stock 9:07
I agree with you about that we can find money that that is that is being wasted right now, and we always talk about that, and I agree with you totally, but I do have to say that the one area that I do believe in raising taxes for we ever have to is for law enforcement. I mean, if we ever have to, that’s the one area, none of the other areas, if you don’t have a safe citizenry, nothing else matters, education, roads, nothing matter if you’re not, if your citizens aren’t safe. And I’m not advocating raising taxes. I’m just saying that that’s the only area that I can see I would ever, ever vote to raise taxes on.
Speaker 1 9:47
Well, I want you to know we don’t act. We don’t have to raise taxes, and there’s not and yet, with government waste, we’d find even more money, but they’ve got money sitting in pots all over the county that they’ll. They’ll they’ll tell you. They’ll come on and say, Oh, George Harris doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Look, I ran a big company with with a fat, you know, 1000s of people. I know how. I know how these departments hide money and hold money and everything else.
Alan Stock 10:15
So we’re talking about being able to add more cops to to Metro, which obviously, I’m sure Sheriff mcmael will appreciate. And you’re talking about a new substation in Downtown Summerlin. We need that there.
George Harris 10:32
Well, some people will say we don’t need it there. And, no, I haven’t spoke to the sheriff to see if it’s, it’s, it’s something they need to put in into their strategic planning. For me, esthetically, for the people who live in my district, it would certainly be nice to have a police substation right in Downtown Summerlin, where, where everybody goes to shop, and every, you know, and they and they, they can interact with cops. You know, sometimes you do stuff because it’s, it’s, it’s the right thing to do. And, you know, and listen, no matter what you have to market, everybody has to market what I’m saying. And you need to mark the police department so people know that the police department are good and they’re not bad. You know, it’s just like school choice. I think parents should be making the decision on where their kids go to school, not not bureaucrats, and you know, and the problem is, is that you know, you the teachers union, who you know, they’re real, big supporter of mine. There’s, listen, there’s a big difference between teachers and the teachers union. I talk to teachers every day in my district, they hate the teachers union. The teachers union does not represent their values. And I’m not saying it doesn’t represent some values of teachers, but for the most part, I have I can tell you right now, I’ve got a piece coming out where 90 teachers are supporting me, because they know that I’m going to be there for the kids, and the teachers union is not there for the kids. Teachers Union is there to put more money in their pockets, you know, in the leadership’s pockets and you know, and no one look I told you again. I’m going to be 65 on May 28 I don’t need anything from anybody. I don’t have to have this job, but I’m going to talk about issues and bring everything up to everybody to say, look what these lobbyists are doing. And the lobbyists are, by the way, the scourge of the earth. They’re, they’re once, they’re one step below, or, yeah, they’re one step below. Car salesman. You know
Alan Stock 12:35
I understand, very little time. I’ve got to ask you this. Also, I want to talk about the homeless issue. What, how would you address the homeless issue? You know, we had a mayor, Mayor Oscar Goodman, back in the early summer of 1999 told me on my show that he would like to have taken the former women’s prison in gene turned that into a triage center for homeless folks, and then and help them out, get the ones help that needed it, and get the ones who needed to be cleaned up everything a big triage center. And that never came about, and now they’re trying to,
George Harris 13:15
and I’m a humongous advocate, to open up the gene prison and make it a homeless. Call it a homeless Hilton here. Here’s the problem we have here. We have well over 1200 people living. We are losing, unfortunately, it’s heartbreaking. We are losing animals, dogs, mostly dogs, homeless people that have dogs, they are now shooting the dogs up with the drugs before they take them to make sure there’s if they’re sitting on the drugs, the dog dies, and we have, we, we have dogs dying. It’s, it’s disgusting. I mean,
Alan Stock 13:48
why? – you, why are they doing this here?
George Harris 13:54
So, so this has been a trend, probably for the last year. Homeless people have animals. You know that you’ve seen the homeless people walking with their dogs, and they and their drugs. They’re on drugs. And when they get the drugs, when they buy the drugs, they shoot the animal up with a little bit of the drug to make sure there’s no fentanyl in the drugs. And if the animal survives, then they go ahead and shoot up their drugs. If the animal doesn’t survive, they don’t take the drugs.
Alan Stock 14:20
Good god, I that. I was
George Harris 14:23
No, of course, you know how I found that out, knocking on doors in the neighborhood and having a bunch of ladies say, what are you going to do for the dogs? I didn’t know there was problem with dogs. I got a beautiful golden doodle.
Alan Stock 14:33
So the bottom line is, we’ve got to deal with the homeless problem, putting up a temporary shelter at Charleston, and I think Jones or whatever. I’m not sure that’s the
George Harris 14:44
That is the dumbest idea, even if it’s permanent, to put a homeless to destroy the value of people’s property around. And that’s not even in my district, but it is. It is absolutely obtuse to build something there. And destroy the value of the people who live in that neighborhood, because they’re, they’re basically, they’re making a homeless Hilton and
Alan Stock 15:09
the out in the poor women’s prison in gene was to put it away from where people live so they didn’t have the property values become compromised
George Harris 15:21
well, also, if you put it way out there, okay, there is a way to segment those people and the people that need help, and it can be brought back into the community and can be salvaged. You know that that’s, you know, because the problem is, if it’s going to be in the center of town, these people are going to leave, they’re going to they’re going to go there at night, and they’re going to leave, it’s just like downtown, and you’re going to and the area is going to get dilapidated. You know, that’s why, that’s why I’m going to bring adult supervision back to the legislature. You need business people up there that understand complex issues, understand what the unintended consequence. Look the idea to say, hey, we want to help these homeless people. We’re going to build this thing on Charleston.
Alan Stock 16:01
I know George, I’m up against the clock, but I want to remind folks that you’re running for the district eight state senate seat. George Harris, a great candidate for that behind him 100% and I hope you get it. We need to have you up there as part of the adult supervision about what’s going on up in Carson City. Thank you for being with us.
