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Supreme Court majority and minority manage to miss the point in campaign finance decision
To hear the bleating partisans tell it, the most recent Supreme Court decision on campaign finance struck the greatest blow for the First Amendment since Madison wrote it or sent America into the hands of oligarchs more inimical to democracy than George III ever was.
My commentary on the government's attempt to paper over state Obamacare disaster
Miller responds to dark money group
In a new ad airing in Reno, Secretary of State Ross Miller, running for attorney general, shows he understands the potential impact of an attack from an outside group.
First teachers union ad uses margin tax foe Sandoval to sell more money for education
3:40 PM, UPDATED BELOW WITH REID AD, TOO: No one has spoken out more against The Education Initiative than Gov. Brian Sandoval. He has described the margin tax in terms generally reserved for what the world would look like after nuclear armageddon.
Lowden answers Hutchison ad with small buy using Obamacare attack
After Mark Hutchison went up on the air with a relatively small buy and a gauzy, positive ad, Sue Lowden is putting an ad on the air reiterating her attack on the state senator for voting to enable Obamacare. The ad is a distilled version of a one-minute ad Lowden ran earlier before a non-televised Elko debate in that rural county. It's a FOX buy. I hear inveterate Republican voters watch that station. Here's the ad:
New PAC watch: Dark money becomes lighter, an IE placeholder and Helen Reddy's voice
A dark money outfit forced to settle with the secretary of state, a vehicle for an independent expenditure war to come and an echo chamber so we can hear them roar: Those are the new PACs registered last week in Nevada. They are: ►Alliance for America's Future, which had to register, because of that settlement with the SOS.
And so it begins: Hutchison goes up on TV
State Sen. Mark Hutchison: Beloved by the most popular elected official in Nevada, fighter against Obamacare, "committed conservative." So says the lieutenant governor hopeful's first ad, now running on cable stations. This was to be expected. Hutchison is unknown, so the simple strategy is: Boost his name ID, define him (really, he is a conservative!), maybe bait Sue Lowden into spending money, then go after her. By the way, I had a forensic lip reader look at the spot, and he tells me this is what is being said between Sandoval and Hutchison:
MY COLUMN: Las Vegas Perspective lacks...perspective
News item: Las Vegas’ unemployment rate is 8.6 percent. The national rate is 6.7 percent. If irrational exuberance has a smell, the Four Seasons Ballroom reeked of it Wednesday morning.