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MY COLUMN: The water czar steps down
There never will be another Pat Mulroy. No one will ever possess the unique combination of toughness, knowledge and indomitability, not to mention longevity, that Mulroy brought to her job as the water overseer of Southern Nevada.
GOP chairman: Party endorsement does not cancel primary election in June!
That and other gems come from the neverending clown show headed by Michael McDonald. Permit me to reprint his latest missive to the faithful, with helpful annotations:
My piece on Sheldon Adelson for POLITICO
Sheldon Adelson, the most successful gambling entrepreneur in history, is terrified.
Did Dean Heller lie to CNN?
Sen. Dean Heller was on CNN's "Crossfire" on Tuesday and was asked about Ted Cruz filibustering the debt limit, which the Nevadan said he was wrong to do. And today, Heller voted to....filibuster the debt limit. I kid you not.
Tea Party leader blasts Nevada GOP endorsement process
The Big Lie that those criticizing the Nevada Republican Party endorsement process are the Establishment types is over. Thus endeth the attempt to hornswoggle by Chairman Michael McDonald and his puppet masters at Citizen Outreach, the faux nonpartisan group full of sound and fury and accomplishing nothing. The Tea Party has arrived in the form of a group that has much more credibility to be anti-Establishment than anyone in this debate.
In effort to hurt margin tax, LVGEA boss resorts to sophistry
Yes, I get that all of Nevada's business leaders want to kill The Education Initiative (I bet they love how that sounds). And I get that the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, the southern chapter of the margin tax killing machine, would love to change the subject to the archaic statewide education funding formula known as The Nevada Plan.
Adelson's anti-web gaming coalition announces list of backers
UPDATE: Want to know how easy it was for me to find one of these groups that hates gambling in general, not just web gaming, and believes it causes addictions and social ills? This easy. "The Louisiana Family Forum has a long history of opposing gambling..." The religious right does not like gambling, unless, of course, it's Ralph Reed and Jack Abramoff pitting one interest against the other.
Aguero: Margin tax will bring in as much as $750 million year, result in massive tax increase for retailers
The proposed margin tax will bring in between $650 million and $750 million a year, bringing business revenue in the state to more than $1 billion annually.
Cheney to keynote RJC event in Vegas; Christie expected, too
Former Vice-President Dick Cheney will be the lead speaker at a March meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, with embattled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also expected to attend, I've learned. The event will be chock full of potential 2016 hopefuls, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Former UN Ambassador John Bolton and Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer also are scheduled at the March 28-30 conference.