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Alan Stock 0:00
Right now, joining us in the Vegas today. Kxnt live line, Amy groves. She’s director of the Coalition for housing freedom. She’s also a candidate for Nevada’s 19th Assembly District. She’s joining us here on Nevada news and views Thursday. If you want to find out more about Nevada news and views a great source for what’s going on in editorial speaking when it comes to local, state and national issues. Go to Nevada. News and views. Calm, Nevada. News and views.com. I read it every single day. Amy, thanks so much for being with us. I appreciate it.
Amy Groves 0:31
Well. Thank you, Alan, for having me
Alan Stock 0:33
absolutely so let’s talk about the column that you wrote, and what’s going on with Texas, because they are actually taking steps in trying to limit benefits of illegal aliens. Some people very upset about that, but the citizens and Americans who live in Texas would like to have their tax dollars go for their own benefits, and not people who illegally broke into this country.
Amy Groves 0:59
Yeah, I’m all for what they’re doing over there. You know, Nevada has been going in the wrong direction. You know, years ago, we started giving anyone a driver’s license. You don’t need IDs for a lot of benefits here in the state. And we do need to take more control of that, because we are out of money, or, you know, we’re running out of other people’s money, as the phrase goes so we do need to dial it back and make sure it’s just for citizens. So I really do support what they’re doing over there, especially the commercial driver’s licenses. Like I actually have had a commercial driver’s license for most of my 20s, and it was so hard to get, and it’s mind blowing to me how easy it is to get right now, a commercial license,
Alan Stock 1:39
it’s very easy. And we know the number of people who have been getting them willy nilly from places like California, where they’ve gotten into accidents because they didn’t not they didn’t know how to read the signage, they didn’t understand what the laws were really about, and they wound up killing a number of people. And of course, afterwards, it’s like, I don’t know what you’re talking I don’t even speak your language. Why can I even defend myself and yet? And you know, go ahead,
Amy Groves 2:04
we’re a reciprocal state, so if you get your CDL in California, you can just come to Nevada and they will give you a CDL. You don’t have to go through the testing again. So that makes it more important that we pay attention to what other states are doing, because it should be hard to get a CDL.
Alan Stock 2:21
It should absolutely so the Texas is doing is there, there are restrictions on benefits to illegal aliens, include job licenses in state tuition, car registration and more. And of course, I’m not sure why we should give in state tuition to people who broke in here illegally. It’s not that I don’t have, you know, sympathy for people who want a better life. And as people said, we’re a nation of immigrants, but the immigrants that have come here from all over the world have done so on a legal basis. Otherwise, realistically, they shouldn’t be here, correct?
Amy Groves 3:01
And you know, this is the land of opportunity, so immigrants of the past, you know, when my family came here, we didn’t get benefits. You had to work. You had to see the opportunity and grow your family. And now it’s different. It’s about coming here and just taking from the taxpayer money that’s already here. We need to change that. We need to make it not easy in Nevada for anyone who’s here illegally to get any of our state money or federal money. It needs to stay with the citizens. We do need to change some rules.
Alan Stock 3:31
Now you write about the fact that you’re talking about basic fairness. I also call it common sense, but basic fairness too, because our state, here in Nevada, you know, we’ve been burdened with rising housing costs, stretched public services, workforce challenges as you write all of this stuff here, and we need to be thinking about the people who are citizens here first and legal residents and are choosing to live in Nevada, and how to be able to address their needs before we think about the illegal needs correct.
Amy Groves 4:08
It feels like right now it’s backwards. We’re thinking more about illegals needs before we are the legal citizens needs. And it’s a mindset that we do need to dial back on. You know, we need to make the DMV easier to go to. You know, when you walk in, it’s not a three month appointment because they’re overburdened with too many people here. There are definitely a lot of policies we can change, but it should be about taking care of who is here legally in the citizens first.
Alan Stock 4:35
Yeah, people used to sometimes refer to us as Uncle sucker, because, you know, we were we give everything out to everyone, and we just can’t afford to do that. You talk about the fact of education here in Nevada and how we have larger class sizes, limited resources, overworked teachers, and a lot of this is due to a lot of reasons, but partially due to the fact that we have a. A lot of illegals here. We don’t question them. We educate them. And should they be educated? The answer is whether they should be educated. The answer is whether they should even be allowed to stay here. I mean, that’s, I mean, I go back to step one instead of step three or four.
Amy Groves 5:17
Corrected. Step one is they shouldn’t be allowed to stay here, and that solves all the other problems, because then we shouldn’t be educating them, because they shouldn’t be here.
Alan Stock 5:26
And I want to remind everyone, yeah, this is not, by the way, you’re not being cruel yourself, and this is not what Donald Trump is like trying to be cruel to people. This stuff was, was initiated, some of it under the Obama administration, and it was really blown up during the Biden administration, where they literally opened the doors to our country and said, Come on in the day he was inaugurated. What happened? They opened the southern border up, and people came across wearing what 1000s wearing, but thank you, Biden Harris T shirts. You remember that you do.
Amy Groves 5:59
But it even goes farther, almost goes back to the Reagan amnesty days, because I was in high school then, and overnight, we had ESL programs in in school that we never had before back in the 80s. It’s been, it’s been a 30 year problem.
Alan Stock 6:13
That was one area that I disagreed with Ronald Reagan on. I regard him as the greatest president, but, but yeah, it was one area that I didn’t agree on, and he was trying to kind of ameliorate both sides at the time and and the result was that that did begin a problem. You know, we were they cleaned the slate when he did it also, and we could have stopped the illegal immigration at that point, but instead we could allow them to continue to come across the border illegally, and now we’ve wound up where we’re at today. And either we, we seize on the opportunity to get them out, or we wind up becoming, literally, a third world country. And if you look at New York and LA especially in New York right now, oh, that is becoming a big third world country. It’s pathetic. And I mean, they ought to be ashamed, but I think the people in New York have voted Mamdani have got no no shame whatsoever. Stay with me. I’m talking with Amy gross, director of the coalition of freedom, housing freedom, and also she’s a candidate for the 19th Assembly District, and she has some good, good news about housing and how it’s getting easier to buy a home. We’ll talk about that more. We come on back right here on Vegas at eight and a good morning. Great to be with us on this Thursday morning. Amy groves joining us. She is director of the Coalition for housing freedom, a candidate for Nevada’s 19th Assembly District. Now, you were saying, if you have, like, a credit of what, 750 or so, and you want a 15 year loan, you could be in the fives now.
Amy Groves 7:42
So you’re in the fives. And even with a buy down, a percent buy down on the note, you’re going to be in the fours.
Alan Stock 7:49
You were talking about the touchstone also, I mean, again, I’m not trying to promote any one thing, but they’ve got a great deal going.
Amy Groves 7:56
Also, they do it’s 3.99% interest, and they have seven or eight complexes around town, and they’re really cute little three bedroom homes. So you can get brand new construction at 3.99% interest, and their homes are three to $400,000 so this is not even hitting the medium house price in Nevada.
Alan Stock 8:16
Wow, cheaper than rent. People got to take advantage of this. Absolutely, you’re running for the 19th Assembly District, and I assume that one of the things you will focus on when you get up to Carson City next year, we have our legislature meet for their every two year meeting. I hope you’ll be concentrating, I imagine, on the issue of affordable housing.
Amy Groves 8:41
Absolutely, that’ll be one of my main focuses.
Alan Stock 8:45
And and working on that, what else would you try to accomplish getting up to Carson City?
Amy Groves 8:52
Honestly, I would make sure that there’s no new taxes that are raised, no new fees that are raised. And I would love to be able to look at the waste that’s in the budget, because every budget has waste, and I would love to reduce the waste so we don’t even have to even find more money to pay for things. I think we already have enough money. So the economics of the state would be my number one issue.
Alan Stock 9:13
See, people don’t understand that. And when you try to talk about waste, some people say when you cut some that waste and you cut jobs and people are unemployed. They did that with the doge program, with Trump, when he got in, you know, he cut waste, and there were people unemployed because they were they were duplicating other jobs and they were unnecessary. But I mean, if things aren’t necessary, just to have jobs for the sake of having jobs when they’re not necessary is a complete waste, and this is something that that we’ve got to focus on, and I would hope you’re successful in something like this, right?
Amy Groves 9:50
And Waste Not even as jobs like we spend over a million dollars a year in the state just buying subscriptions to memberships to trade organizations. But. Do we need to belong to over 400 trade organizations? Right? Something to be looked at that could possibly be cut and wouldn’t even affect a
Alan Stock 10:06
job that I don’t know, because I’m not involved in trying to bring you know tourism here. So maybe they’re saying that it’s necessary for tourism. I don’t know the answer to that, but you’re right. I mean, all these things worth looking at, they’re all worth looking at and trying to get and trying to resolve it somehow. So we’re not wasting the money that we’ve had. We know about the fraud that’s been going on in Minneapolis. We know about the fraud that’s been going on in LA and other places, and I’m sure that some of that is going on here, also not with the intent of any of the folks in our government, but nonetheless, people are committing fraud. And you know, if the more we stop of that, the more money will be going to the people who really need it.
Amy Groves 10:57
Correct. I agree with that.
Alan Stock 10:59
So if people want to find out more about your candidacy, and obviously, more about some of these opportunities that you talked about existed for housing. How can they do it?
Amy Groves 11:12
Well, my website is vote Amy groves.com when you go on there, you’ll get all my contact info, my cell phone, my email, just call text, shoot me an email. I’ll be happy to chat about any of these subjects. Help anyone find a home?
Alan Stock 11:25
Fantastic. Amy groves joining us, director of the Coalition for housing freedom, candidate for the 19th Assembly District. Joining us today on Nevada news and views Thursday, if you want to find out more about Nevada, news and views, a great resource for news and commentary for state, local and national issues, go to Nevada. News and views.com Nevada news and views.com Amy groves want to thank you so much for joining us. The best to you in your effort to become our next assembly a woman from the 19th Assembly District. Thanks so much for being with us. We’ll talk again soon.
Amy Groves 12:00
Thank you very much, Alan. Have a great day.
