Alan Stock interviews Kelly Chapman, a candidate for the 41st Assembly District and executive director of the Nevada Business Alliance, about her opponent, Vinny Spotleson, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Chapman highlights Spotleson's extreme views, including abolishing the Supreme Court and open borders, and his misrepresentation of facts, such as linking ICE to “murder” without evidence. Chapman emphasizes the importance of safety, small businesses, and government creating opportunities rather than dependency.
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Alan Stock 0:00
And a good morning. Great to have you with us on this big Thursday morning. And if it is Thursday, it is Nevada News and Views Thursday. You can find out more about Nevada News and Views and the local coverage for news and commentary, local, statewide, and national, by going to nevadenewsandviews.com. NevadaNewsAndViews.com. Joining us this morning is Kelly Chapman, executive director of the Nevada Business Alliance, and a candidate for the 41st Assembly District. She will make a great Assembly member representing the people of the 41st and even the surrounding areas. And Kelly, thanks so much for being with us. I appreciate it.
Kelly Chapman 0:37
Good morning, Alan. Thank you so much for having me.
Alan Stock 0:39
Absolutely, I want to talk about the guy who is running against you because people don't understand the danger. We hear about Mamdani in New York, and we hear about the may or of Seattle, and all these people are pretty distant. And we're and we know California has gone crazy. We got a member of the Democratic Socialists of America running for mayor of L.A. in in the runoff, and there are a lot of crazies out there, and places like San Francisco have have gone more moderate in the last year, year and a half, and doing better, but right now we've got a guy running for the assembly who's a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and that's not being publicized too much, and his name is Vinnie Spotleson, and these people have come out with some crazy stuff in the recent days. And he wants to try to become a member of our assembly. He's a dangerous guy,
Kelly Chapman 1:36
right? the The issue is also that it's this. These are his words, not ours. He is admitted dues-paying member of the Democrat Socialists of America. You know, and when we talk about gas prices here in Nevada, a lot of the issues that we have are these big regulations in California that cause our gas prices to go up. You know that we don't, we never voted for, we never asked for, but because of those crazy regulations, it affects us over here as well.
Alan Stock 2:07
Right, and and I know, I mean, but but people have to understand real quickly that when we say Democratic Socialists of America, they just recently came out with a a brand new list of things that they would like to accomplish, and some of them include things like getting rid of the United States Senate and having one one democratically elected federal legislature, and that would be kind of like the old Politburo of the Soviet Union, if you can picture that in your mind. He wants to get rid of the Supreme Court entirely, replace it with some kind of an entity that's controlled by the left-wing people in Congress. I mean, this is what they want. This is what they're actually asking for: an immigration hold all the portions, eliminate immigration controls, just open our border up like no other country in the in the world does. But we should do that. So this guy, and on a local basis, he wants light rail in Las Vegas within seven to 10 years. And except there's a problem because we don't have the population that Manhattan or Chicago or other places have, and that's and that's in so tight. It wouldn't it wouldn't work. California has tried some of these things, and and and it's not working there either.
Kelly Chapman 3:25
We tried on a strip, and look how that worked out. Those those end up being more than double cost of what they originally were projected to be, and they they don't do us any good. It's not something we ever would need here.
Alan Stock 3:39
Yeah, one of the things I get a kick out of is, and I know you wrote about this, the fact that that he says, well, you know, he is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and you know, you you would call all Democrats a socialist anyway. But wait a minute. Aside from that, you are a card-carrying, dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which is basically a communist organization, and he wants to fault somebody for accusing him of being a card-carrying member and a dues-paying member. He admits that he is. So, I mean, can you imagine having someone in there like a like a Zoran Mamdani representing the 41st up in Carson City?
Kelly Chapman 4:20
Right. They've also discussed eliminating police, eliminating prisons. These types of ideas are just unbelievable and something that we should never have-not not only the country, but in our state as well.
Alan Stock 4:34
And the other thing I want to bring out, and I know you've written about this, and we've got to mention this. You know, when you run for office, you got to tell the truth. Not all politicians do. I understand that people exaggerate. I understand that. But he wrote about the fact that ICE, ICE is murdering people without consequences, and he linked that that charge to an article from the Reuters news. Work turns out that Reuters news article doesn't mention the word murder anywhere. He he injected that in there, tried to give it like legitimacy by saying Reuters, but they didn't say it. But he puts the word murder in there. The guy is he's a liar. He exaggerates, and he's a dangerous socialist, wannabe communist,
Kelly Chapman 5:25
right? Those ideas are just-it really is insane, and they should be far, far away from our state legislature.
Alan Stock 5:32
You also write about, and this is-I this I've been following and talked about it when it happened. He talked about the fact that Antifa rioters got a 50-year prison sentence. Actually, one got almost 100 for noise-making fireworks. It's like you know you have too many fireworks going off in your neighborhood. Put somebody in prison for 50 years. That didn't happen. Turns out these these ugly revolutionaries shot at police and actually hit one cop in the neck,
Kelly Chapman 6:01
right? In the neck. I t wasn't anything. It wasn't fireworks, and that's the crazy thing. When you change these stories to fit your narrative, that's not the case at all.
Alan Stock 6:13
No, this guy is a very dangerous guy. His name is Vinnie Spotleson, and he is a socialist wannabe communist, so please be well aware of him and watch out for him. He's a dangerous guy. And then you wrote also about Jackie Rosen and her rush to because she has done basically the same thing when she talks about ICE shootings, and she just leaves out the most important parts of of the true stories,
Kelly Chapman 6:43
right? I wrote the the story on the ice shooting, you know, and and she did tell some things that were were correct in the story, the facts that were true. She she did say a few, but she completely omitted the DHS.
Alan Stock 6:59
And you give her credit for that.
Alan Stock 7:00
Absolutely the
Kelly Chapman 7:01
The DHS said the driver ran the ICE vehicle and tried to run over the officer, and he fired in self-defense. You know, we have to wait for the investigations to be completed before we rush to judgment and and try to fit this into just a political narrative to swing people one way. It's important, especially as legislators, that we wait for those facts to come out. These cases and some of you know things that have come out just in the last few days is three bags of meth were found in that car.
Alan Stock 7:38
Wow! Yeah, absolutely amazing stuff. So people have got to remember about Jackie's not up for re-election any time in the near future, but remember that the Spotleson guy is a mini Mamdani, and we've got to be aware of that. You're running for the you are the GOP nominee for the 41st Assembly District, and you know, being executive director of the Nevada Business Alliance, having a business background, I mean, you understand that employment-the majority of employment in this nation-is based on businesses, not on government.
Kelly Chapman 8:16
Right. You know, I I believe government should create opportunity, not dependency. Small businesses create jobs, not not government. Families they spend their money better than bureaucracies, and I believe that success should should be not punished.
Alan Stock 8:32
Yeah, yeah, you you're running a great campaign and and and expressing the truth to people and. again, one of the most important issues I just want to say in in this campaign, no matter how you look at it, is safety. Without safety, none of it, the rest of it matters. Business regulations and education, none of it matters unless the citizenry is safe. And and this governor has worked to enhance the safety and security of the people in this state, not to the degree that he would like to, because he doesn't have the legislators behind him as much as he should. But we get you and others in there. Hopefully, he'll be able to accomplish the goal of really making the state a whole lot safer for the citizens here,
Kelly Chapman 9:22
right? Like you said, without safety, nothing else matters. We can't open businesses. We can't keep them safe. Schools won't be safe. It's it's an important aspect that we need to really pay attention to, and he needs the legislature to back him up, Lombardo. That is to really get things taken care of in the legislature.
Alan Stock 9:42
Yeah, the country has has bounced back. This this this whole but and the state has bounced back a lot since the the pandemic and the shutdown by the former governor, which was abysmal. But but this governor Lombardo has helped bounce back and. We need folks like you in the legislature to help the governor accomplish those things to again make the people safer, and also he has other ideas about even further enhancing education. He already does a great job of that. Affordable housing. I mean, these are important issues, and that's on the agenda for the for the governor. And you have all those fall into line, and people live a satisfied and worthwhile life. People are happy. We need you in there. 40-first Assembly District, Kelly Chapman is running, executive director of the Nevada Business Alliance. Kelly, I appreciate you taking time to join us this morning, and I wish you the very, very best. We'll get you on a lot more between now and the election, but we got to get you in there.
Kelly Chapman 10:47
Thank you, Alan. And if anybody has any questions, they can go to Chapman4NumberForNevada.com, or if they would love to volunteer, we'd love to have you.
Alan Stock 10:56
Chapman4Nevada.com. Chapman4Nevada.com. Check it out. Kelly Chapman will be a great representative for the 41st Assembly District, and got to put her in. Got to get her in. Kelly, thanks so much for being with us. I do appreciate it, and the best luck to you. And we'll talk soon.
Kelly Chapman 11:15
Thank you, Alan. Appreciate it.
