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Two Vegas council incumbents doing event for challenger against third
Who says municipal races aren't partisan? Las Vegas Councilmen Bob Beers and Stavros Anthony are having a joint fundraiser with fellow Republican Suzette LaGrange, who is challenging Councilman Steve Ross, a longtime union supporter and former labor leader.
PAC forms to help oust Buck as North Las Vegas mayor
UPDATE: I have attached the PAC's first mail piece here. You could have predicted this as many forces array to try to defeat North Las Vegas Mayor Shari Buck: A political action committee, helpfully calling itself The Coalition for Truth in Government, has formed to fund an independent expenditure effort that will benefit Buck's main foe, ex-state Sen. John Lee. Political consultant David Thomas formed the PAC, and he told me Monday he has his first mailer ready to go. So who's funding it?
Lawmakers on more transparency: Killing it softly with their words
When I hear lawmakers tell me they support a bill “in concept,” for some reason, I hear, “I hate this bill and will do everything I can to kill it.”
SOS tries (again) to bring transparency to Nevada's laws
Mention the phrase “campaign finance reform,” and the NyQuil lobby gets nervous. Nothing puts folks to sleep faster than this concept, which is exactly what the elected elite wants and exactly why you should pry your eyes open. And Tuesday in the Legislative Building, where such notions go to die a quiet (usually) death, Secretary of State Ross Miller (again) will try to deliver a wake-up call to the Gang of 63.
Steve Wynn in 1989: Take mining taxation out of the Constitution
In rare testimony before lawmakers 24 years ago and in a mostly forgotten bit of history, Steve Wynn broke with the rest of the gaming industry and vehemently assailed lawmakers for keeping mining tax policy inside the Constitution.
The ghosts of 1989 come to haunt Carson City on mining taxation
In 1989, Acting Gov. Bob Miller fulminated against the mining industry in a way that had rarely been heard in the capital.
Keystone president: We oppose the mining proposal by the Senate GOP
Just got this -- attributed to conservative Keystone Corp. boss John Gibson: Keystone Opposes Mining Tax Proposal
Cadish withdraws as federal judicial nominee
And thus a victory for Senator Dean Heller, who opposed her because of a gun control answer during a campaign, over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who promoted her. Elissa Cadish's withdrawal letter (attached here), surely solicited by Reid, mentions the need to fill the slot. But this is very simple: Heller blocked her and could never move off that position. He could never explain allowing her to go through if he flip-flopped.
Las Vegas chamber endorsements: A Democrat over a Republican, a union guy over businesswoman and....no one in Henderson
The Las Vegas Metro Chamber's municipal endorsements released today snubbed a GOP mayor needing all the help she can get, embraced a union stalwart over a businesswoman backed by conservatives and ignored a Henderson mayor facing token opposition.