Alan Stock and Annie Black discuss Nevada’s special session, highlighting the defeat of the movie studio bill and the resolution to enshrine mail-in voting in the state constitution. Black criticized the Democrats’ use of the session and the Republicans’ support for the studio bill. They also talk about the potential for a state income tax and the importance of parental oversight in education.
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And a good morning. Great to have you with us on this Thursday morning, 20th day of November. It’s Thursday. It’s got to be Nevada. News and views, Thursday, which it is. And for the best in information, I’m telling you, you can find what’s going on locally, statewide, nationally, and believe me, Chuck Muth make sure he has a great number of people working with him to find out what’s going at the very latest and giving you the truth of what’s happening. Go to Nevada news and views.com Nevada news and views.com and I guarantee you you’ll be happy that you did joining us this morning, former mesquite city councilwoman and former Nevada State Assembly Woman, Annie black, how you doing? Annie,
I’m doing great. How are you?
Alan, I’m doing fine, and I appreciate being with me. And I think this morning, more than anything, probably it’s your the fact you’re a former Nevada State Assembly Woman, that’s the most relevant, given that the session, the special session closed last night. And of course, we know that the the movie studio bill that would have allowed transferable tax credits, transferable tax credits, went down to defeat.
Thank God. It took a while, but it was it went out kicking and screaming, but it finally got killed.
It got killed and it died. But what happened, though, is one of the things they did do was, soon as that died, was initiate a resolution to enshrine mail in voting here in the state of Nevada. So what happens is, it’s a resolution does not require the governor to do anything. They can come back in two years and do this again. Doesn’t do anything except that it sends it to the people in 2028 to vote whether or not we want to enshrine the right to vote by mail in the Nevada State Constitution. This is a lot of crap,Annie Black 2:05
exactly, and I think I mean, heaven forbid that it does make it back and onto the ballot, I believe the people of the state of Nevada would definitely say no, especially since didn’t the showing ID to vote pass in a landslide. So I think it’s, it’s kind of a lost cause at this point.Alan Stock 2:23
Yeah, the ID passed, but we also defeated the the convoluted idea of of ranked choice voting and and all the other stuff that went along with that. I mean, they have all, they had all kinds of ways they wanted to be able to manipulate voting, and by the way, ranked choice voting. Just want to say you can see how dumb that was, because nobody knew who the mayor of, I think it’s Seattle was going to be for days because of their ranked choice voting. Where, whereas you had the results from recently, from Virginia and New Jersey immediately, because they don’t have that convoluted type of voting. So, I mean, you know, people don’t, they’ll find out for days what the result is. We have some of that problem anyway, here in Nevada, but it would be even worse,Annie Black 3:11
right? I think what was most shocking to me about the Democrat special session, which led to that SJR one, which is the universal mail in ballot deal was that both the Hansen signed on to give the Democrats a special session. I think that’s the most insane part about that whole thing. I mean, I think we all know why Ira signed on. He had a housing bill he wanted to get heard, which was not but either way, giving the Dems their own special session was pretty scary, in my opinion,
Alan Stock 3:46
and so they used it nefariously to their advantage, exactly.
Annie Black 3:52
But they needed Republicans to sign on to get it done, and that they got that obviously, because it happened, and it was Alexis and Ira Hansen.
Alan Stock 4:03
Well, I mean, I just want to say this Republican Democrat doesn’t really matter too much anymore. It’s more people based on, you know, what is going to be conservative versus what is going to be ultra liberal, because it was the Democrat Republicans back at around 20. Was 2015 that gave us the largest tax increase in the history of Nevada. So, I mean, you know, I’m skeptical of Republicans these days as much as I am Democrats. Yeah.
Annie Black 4:30
I mean, for sure, going back to the Hollywood handout thing, that failed, you know, that could have, that could have been killed in the crib, had Danielle gallant and Jason Patchett not voted to allow two Republican assembly people to vote, to vote virtually, or whatever. So the Republicans could have killed this in the crib, and we didn’t. And then it turned into this huge disaster, which it became. And. And that’s pretty sad. We never miss an opportunity to just screw everything up. It seems like
Alan Stock 5:05
we never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. That’s the way the saying goes. And I can see a lot of Republicans being primaried next year.
Annie Black 5:16
I think it’s coming. And I think I’m sad to say, I feel like our governor’s kind of in trouble too. This was not a good look for the people that were following it. There was a lot of stuff that happened. And the biggest, to me, the biggest disappointment in it all, is that a lot of Republicans went out on a limb and made bad votes to support that Hollywood bill, and then it didn’t even pass. So what was it all for?
Alan Stock 5:43
And what about this? Will the governor? Do you think he’ll veto the crime bill because of this ice amendment, or do you think that he’ll be forced to pass because he wanted to have the crime bill passed? I did too, by the way, but now with that ice amendment, I’m for vetoing it.
Annie Black 6:04
Yeah, I agree. I don’t think that there’s any way even legally, that he can allow that bill to pass given the the ice stuff that’s in there. So I think he has to veto his own bill, which is going to be another embarrassment to the governor’s administration,
Alan Stock 6:22
the Democrats have an agenda, definite agenda. One of them was the whole voting situation, how we vote, mail and voting and everything else. But one of the other things that they were doing, I’ve talked to Sam rajasky about this a few times, and that is, had the Hollywood handout gone through, we would have had a we would have been in the in the red within the next three years, maybe four years, to the point, I mean, talk about our state budget, to the point where we would have had to do something drastic. And obviously what I think Democrats were champing at the bid for was to go ahead and initiate a, wait for it, a state income tax?
Annie Black 7:06
Yeah, I agree you and I talked about this. I think it was last week, and I agree it would have resulted eventually in some sort of tax. That’s the way it always works. So it wouldn’t have been surprising to me at all if that would have happened,
Alan Stock 7:20
but a state income tax we would have, would have californicated Nevadans. And, I mean, it would have been something that would never have been able to be changed again. I mean, Cal look where California is at. And I don’t, I think it’s they’re irretrievably lost in the forest. I’m talking about California. But we cannot allow that to happen here. I mean, I’ve chosen to live here. I wasn’t born here, and I’m, I’m willing to stand and defend this state, and that is one of the biggest red lines that I can see.
Annie Black 7:55
I agree. Well, when you import California, you’re going to get California taxes. And that would have been, you know, right along behind the Hollywood film credits. So thank God it didn’t pass. Thank God it didn’t
Alan Stock 8:06
pass. Thank God it didn’t pass. All right, stay with me. I want to talk about this. You wrote for Nevada news and views. Parents asking teachers, what are you teaching our kids? And teachers are the unions are going, what do you want to know what we’re teaching the kids. What’s it your business? They’re freaking out. They’re the unions are freaking out. I want to talk about that and more. Got Annie black joining me this morning. We’re going to continue in just a moment, right here on Vegas at eight. And a good morning. We’ve got Annie black joining us on Nevada news and views Thursday. And Annie wrote a great piece for the Nevada news of views about teachers melting down when parents say, What are you teaching my kid and the teachers union? Why are you asking this? They freak out about that, don’t they?
Annie Black 8:52
They do. They do. I know it’s crazy, but cops wear body cams. Maybe it’s time for teachers to do the same. There’s nothing to hide. There’s nothing a beer, right? Why not?
Alan Stock 9:02
Wow, that’s a great point, a great point. And as we talked about off the air, I mean, there are teachers who really do believe that the kids ain’t yours, they’re ours.
Annie Black 9:14
Yeah, what’s her name? Stacy Davis gates, the from the Chicago Teachers Union, said, CTU thinks your children are its children. They’re not their families. So they belong to the teachers, they belong to the union, not to the parents, right?
Alan Stock 9:30
We’ll get right on that one there, Stace, we’ll get right on that. But the teachers union, as you wrote, they’re upset about the fact when people start asking things like, what’s going on, and the ACLU is actually defending the teachers union, thinking that, you know, if they’re just trying some new ideas, stop looking over their shoulder. What kind of insanity is that the ACLU has gone completely nuts, completely calm? Nutso. But I mean, to tell you know, parents stop looking over the shoulder of teachers just because they want to try things that are secret.
Annie Black 10:11
Yeah, they they’ve totally lost it. But I mean, I guess the one good thing that came from covid was parents were seeing what their kids were learning digitally, virtually, online, and they were able to get a little glimpse into what their kids are being taught. And so now we’re just basically saying we want more transparency in what the curriculums are, not necessarily what you know, every word you’re going to use in the classroom, but at least tell us what you’re teaching our kids, because we have a right to know they are our kids,
Alan Stock 10:40
and you’re right, if it wasn’t for the covid shutdown, I mean, we criticize that. We know it shouldn’t. We should never shut things down, but if it wasn’t for that shutdown, parents wouldn’t have been aware of what their kids were being taught in school, because the kids were then learning virtually, and the parents were able to see what was happening on those computers. And a lot of parents just kind of blew a gasket and went, you can’t be doing this in a public school setting. I’m paying my tax dollars for this insanity. And this is when the stuff hit the fan, exactly.
Annie Black 11:13
And we see it from, you know, kindergarten all the way to college. I mean, that guy that was radicalized against Charlie Kirk, he went off to college, allegedly being somewhat normal, and God only knows what he was learning while he was at school, and he went completely cuckoo bird. So they’re definitely teaching our kids things they shouldn’t be teaching them, and we have a right to know about it, or at least know what they’re teaching them, even if it is stuff that we agree with, we should have a right to know what it is that’s being taught to our children.
Alan Stock 11:41
What you just said, even if we agree with them, we should still be allowed to know what it is they’re teaching our kids. It’s not whether we agree or disagree, it’s what it is the kids are being taught. And as parents, we have the ultimate responsibility if your kid gets in trouble, by the way, with the law, they don’t go to the teachers union to say, you’ve got to deal with these kids. They go to the parents and say, You’re the ones who are responsible exactly
Annie Black 12:08
as they should and as it should be. But you can’t have it both ways, right? You can’t be responsible when something bad happens, but when it comes to the everyday stuff, you shouldn’t be involved. It doesn’t really work that way.
Alan Stock 12:20
Just a little hypocrisy, that’s all. And you know, you’re so opposed to that. You know, Annie black, former state assembly woman here in Nevada, and of course, a frequent contributor to that and news and views. If you want to find out more, go to Nevada news and views, calm and what’s your personal site they can go to to find out about, I know you’re running, gonna run for assembly, perhaps, tell us where they could find that.
Annie Black 12:43
Super easy. Annie black.com, a, n, n, i e and black like the color. And I just want to say any Republicans who failed us in this special session, better lace up, because the primaries are coming, baby.
Alan Stock 12:54
You betcha. Right on, right on, all right. Annie black, thanks so much for being with us. I appreciate it as always.
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