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Alan Stock 0:00
And joining us right now on this Thursday, which is by the way Nevada News and Views Thursday, and you can find out more about Nevada News and Views by going to nevadanewsandviews.com. Great news coverage and commentary about local, statewide, and national issues. George Harris is joining us. George, of course, writes for Nevada News and Views, and also running for the state senate in District Eight would be an absolutely great addition to the state senate. We need folks like George up there, so I'm thrilled to have him with us this morning. How you doing?
George Harris 0:36
I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on. How have you guys been?
Alan Stock 0:40
We've been just fine. We've been doing absolutely great. I want to talk about your opponent. She has voted for a. She's voted for some bizarre things. Her name is Marilyn Dondero Loop, and she's kind of loopy. She voted to let non citizens non citizens become police officers. Now, I mean, people, you know, I mean, you could be an illegal alien basically and become a police officer in her world of thinking. And I think this is just bizarre to have a non-citizen tell you what you have to do to to obey the law when they're not even a citizen of this country, that is absolutely bizarre.
George Harris 1:28
Well, her her her method of thinking, you know, she's a member of the DSA, the Democrat Socialists of America. She is a member. She loves them, and that's how they think, and they want you know, Alan, you can't make this stuff up, and I can't explain it. You know what I mean?
Alan Stock 1:47
Well, yeah, I mean, and and I've been talking this morning about DSA. We've got other people running as DSA here. Vinny Spottleson is running for assembly. He's a member of this, and and let's face it. I mean, you could call it the Democratic Socialists of America, but what they are proposing is is communist mentality. Anybody who grew up and before I don't know what they're teaching in school today, but you know, in the old days, you know that when Marx talked about socialism and communism were used interchangeably. So I mean, you know, it didn't matter. He used them both interchangeably, and and this is what, I mean, they're they're promoting government control of production and of your lives, basically. But she wants to have non-citizen become a non-citizen to stop you, perhaps an illegal alien to stop you and tell you that she broke the law.
George Harris 2:44
She voted for the bill. She is. This is her mentality of thinking. You know, I'm. I'm only running a positive campaign. She has gone right out the gate. She says the most egregious stuff about me that none of it's true. She's got a television commercial that I fired 40 people before Christmas, that I'm $2 million in debt. None of this is, none of this is true, and they just make it up, and they they you know it's like throwing what is that saying? Throwing crap on the wall and seeing what will stick.
Alan Stock 3:15
So you did not fire 40 people just before Christmas to become Uncle Scrooge.
George Harris 3:20
Okay, first of all, I've been retired, as you know, for two years, so I haven't fired anybody. And then prior to that, when I was in business and I did run a big company, our policy was to lay people off if there was going to be a layoff in the first two weeks of July and the first two weeks of February, specifically so no one was ever laid off during the Christmas season, so it's just it's just nonsense.
Alan Stock 3:45
So she she she lied about that and and and and the other stuff as well. So she she I know voted for this law to allow non citizens to enforce law on American citizens, and I know that Governor Joe Lombardo vetoed that law. Some people are are are condemning Lombardo for all of his vetoes, but if he didn't he didn't veto some of these things like this non-citizens enforcing the law in American Citizens Act, that would have been crazy. I mean, can you imagine being stopped by a person who's not even a citizen, and you have to listen to what they have to say. I just, I'm just blown out by that. I really, I really am, and I'm also blown out by. And I want to talk about this as well. The this this homeless issue. You wrote a piece about this recently. That as you go door to door talking to people in your district, finding out what people are, you know, are upset about, and I know some people will say no. It's it's it's going to be affordability and Trump. How they hate Trump? No, no, it's because the homeless encampments are cropping up even in your district, and why they've allowed that to happen is beyond me.
George Harris 4:57
Well, she's one of the ones that has allowed it. And listen, there's got to be a way to put a handle, get a handle around this. But you know, we we can't have homeless encampments where young kids, you know, next to parks where young kids, and then their parents don't take them to the parks. It's got to stop, and it's got to stop when I get elected. You know, one of the things they the Democrats and mrs. Loop talk about affordability and how we have to help everybody. You know what they don't tell you is she voted for the bill. It used to be if you got caught stealing $650 or more of merchandise, it was a Class A felony. Correct. And she voted to raise that to $1,250, and that alone, with the smash and grabs, have have raised the price of food, raised the price of goods, and she's directly responsible for that. But she talks about affordability. Come on,
Alan Stock 5:56
yeah. I mean, the idea of trying to we we outcalifornicated California. by this law that you're talking about by raising the limit to 12 or 1250 to what that would be considered a felony for when you steal something in California they lowered it I mean much lower we're now trying to get it lower here in the state but I know she was one of the main people to vote for raising this up to $1,200, and she was
George Harris 6:26
she was this she was the sponsor of the bill, one of the sponsors of the bill, and I don't know what what her thought process was because it doesn't take a scientist to figure out okay if we raise this to 1250, that's just going to embolden people to steal more because they know they're not going to. They know they're not going to jail. They're going to get a slap, so they're out stealing $1,250 worth of merchandise. And then the guys who own the Walgreens, the Smiths Food Kings, and everything. Do you think? No, they just sit in their meeting. They go, “Look, we had a loss prevention number last month. Of the average, the average Smiths is like 1% Okay, so in in a month they probably lose to theft. They probably lose maybe $80,000. Well, what do you think they're going to do? They're going to make that. They're going to raise prices to make up that $80,000.
Alan Stock 7:23
Unacceptable. This is what it went on in L.A. and I talked about it earlier this morning. Because I mean, and now L.A. is thinking about even going socialist for their mayor. I mean, we cannot allow ourselves to become Los Angeles or California. People left there purposely. Don't bring those voting habits that some people had with you. Hope, hopefully, you did not. You know, we we
George Harris 7:46
have to get we have to get the message out that people have to vote. That's the problem. I mean, I walk door to door all the time, and Alan, people tell me, ah, my vote doesn't count. I'm not going to vote, and you've got to you've got to compel them by either my personality or here's what I'm going to do to say you know what I am going to get up off my couch and go vote for you.
Alan Stock 8:08
And a good morning, great to have you with us on this Thursday morning. We've got George Harris joining us. George is running for the eighth state senate district. And why is it important to have George in office? I want to tell you, we've got a great governor doing some great things, and we've got a guy who's running against our governor. First of all, I support Joe Lombardo 100% The guy running against him is a part-time attorney general. He's running around the country with far left-wing people. I mean, the Democratic Socialists of America support this guy, and he's running around the country trying to get funds from them. And one of the things that everyone has to understand is that this guy is his name is Aaron Ford, and he has he has supported the idea of clemency for a guy who murdered a pregnant mother and a child, and no one else sponsored clemency for this person, but Aaron Ford did. And when he knew that they would not get it passed by the parole board, he didn't even show up for the hearing himself. He was busy with some of the leftists trying to get money out of them in New York and elsewhere. We've got to support Lombardo in order to be able to do that. We've got to get people like George Harris in office and get more state senators and assembly people in office. I mean, people are George. One of the biggest things people are concerned about is crime because if your community is not safe, all the other issues about you talk about gas and about water and about everything else. You know, none of it matters if the community isn't safe.
George Harris 10:01
Well, that's that's you hit the nail on the head, and you need to look. We have to go after these criminals. We just have to. We have to make our streets safe for our neighbors, and that's what I look. The reason I'm doing so well is I don't get involved in any of this nonsense. Where oh you know the the person who's the criminal needs to have the right. I am a victim's advocate. That's it. I advocate for the victim. I advocate for the kids that live in the neighborhoods where they're trying to put these little homeless. You know they they go to the nicest parts and they start putting up tents and they take over the parts, and they defecate on the on the ground. It's it's going to stop. I promise you. You know, I tease around, but I'm telling you factually, I'll be the new sheriff in town. This is going to end, and and and you know, our sheriff. We have the best. The sheriff, by the way, has endorsed me, and we have. This is probably the best sheriff we've had in 30 years. I mean, technology is-he-he you know-he wraps himself around technology. He's put in a-you know-he cares about his cops. He's put in a mental health component for the cops, so they have someone to talk to. I mean, other people have never done this stuff. I mean, he's a very innovative guy, and he is a very crime-fighting guy, and that's the guy I support. And I support Joe because Joe is up there trying. Look, at the state senate level, you make the policy, and policy is counts for everything, because if you have bad policy, you have bad results.
Alan Stock 11:43
Well, yeah, absolutely, and I would recommend. I mean, I'm serious when I say this, and I mean this. That I hope that when you get in, you would consult with someone like former Mayor Oscar Goodman, who had the idea, I think, about how to deal with the homeless problem. A lot of people have ideas. What are we going to do? You don't want to do this. You want to do that. And Oscar was as compassionate as could be and had the idea about turning the former women's prison in Jean into a triage center to be able to help these people out. And of course, the media the next day said Mayor wants to send homeless to prison. But what what he wanted to do was help these people out, and he he had a facility outside of town, so he didn't have to have it in neighborhoods here, like on Charleston and elsewhere, that would actually help these folks out. So I hope you'll consult with him, and I mean that sincerely, because I think he has, even though he's no longer mayor and he's long retired, he still has some great ideas about that. We've been talking to George Harris.
George Harris 12:49
He's still on top of everything. He's still on top of everything.
Alan Stock 12:53
We've been talking to George Harris running for the eighth state senate district, and if you're in the eighth, I want you to vote for him. We need him in the the state senate badly. If if you support keeping the neighborhoods safe, number one, and and keeping money in our pocket instead of being taxed up the wazoo, you got to get George Harris in office. And don't forget, you can always find what George is writing at Las Vegas News and Views NevadaNewsAndViews.com NevadaNewsAndViews.com. George, thanks so much for being with us. I appreciate it. Always great having you aboard, and you and I will talk again real soon.
George Harris 13:36
Thank you. You guys have a great day, and I appreciate you.
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