RJ Endorses Hamilton for city council

The Las VegasReview-Journal issued the following endorsement for Henderson City Council on Thursday…

“In Ward 1, incumbent Councilwoman Gerri Schroder faces challenges from retired Chrysler worker Eddie Hamilton and small business owner Edward O’Neil. Ms. Schroder says she takes pride in her work overseeing the city’s finances, but was positively stumped when asked if Henderson has an employee compensation problem. “I don’t have any role in that. … I don’t know if they make too much,” she said of the city’s workforce. She should know. Not only is she elected to monitor such matters — payroll is the city’s biggest operational expense — but her husband, Glenn, was juiced into an unposted, part-time job as a city “housing specialist” that later was converted to a full-time position with benefits. He later quit. Mr. Hamilton, upon introduction, comes across as a political caricature with his patriotic attire and cowboy hat. But he articulates the problems with Henderson government as well as anyone. If elected, he vows to shake up a city run by what he calls “an elite, corrupt political class” plagued by nepotism and an “incestuous relationship between elected officials and bureaucrats.” He wants to force the city’s “censorship bureau” to embrace openness and transparency, he wants to outsource and privatize more city services, and he wants the state attorney general to investigate City Hall. The Review-Journal endorses Eddie Hamilton for Henderson City Council, Ward 1.”

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