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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If shooting yourself in the foot were an Olympic event, Gov. Jim Gibbons would be a gold medalist.

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Posted on January 8th, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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“Without a sense of irony, without a sense of shame, without a sense of loyalty, without a sense of propriety and, of course, without a clue, the governor (Jim Gibbons) has now horrified many of his supporters by attacking a weakened member of his own party (Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki) and by appointing - and then having to back down on the appointment - a guy who could not have made it through the Tourism Commission selection process.”

- Columnist Jon Ralston

“Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons escalated his feud with Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki on Friday, questioning a trip Krolicki took to China in his role as chairman of the state Tourism Commission. . . . He leveled the allegations against Krolicki and the commission because they refused to rubber-stamp his attempt to illegally appoint a Reno man as the commission’s executive director. Gibbons has yet to offer any evidence to support the allegations against Krolicki or acknowledge he was wrong in his attempt to make the appointment.”

- Las Vegas Sun editorial, 1/6/08

“The ongoing sniping between Gov. Jim Gibbons and Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki has got to stop — now. This skirmish, being conducted through the media, over Gibbons’s apparent end-run appointment of a tourism director and Krolicki’s state-sponsored trip to China, is embarrassing the state, and the Republican party these two top officials represent. Not only is the tiff taking attention away from the business of running a state during crisis, it’s now making our leadership look ineffectual on a global level.”

- Nevada Appeal editorial, 1/7/09

Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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Last month during the Special Session, the Nevada state Assembly voted on who would serve as Speaker during the upcoming legislative session which begins on February 2nd.

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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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Liberal UNR Prof. Mike Robinson inked a guest column published in Sunday’s Reno Gazette-Journal which was titled, “Though hard to stomach, a state income tax is best for everyone.” I’m shocked; shocked I say.

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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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Some readers expressed both surprise and a little consternation over Nevada GOP Chairman Sue Lowden’s defense of Sen. Harry Reid a couple days ago. Reid was accused of being a racist, without basis, simply because he didn’t want to accept Illinois Gov. Blagojevich’s pick, who happens to be black, to fill Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat.

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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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Questionnaire for Candidates for
Chairman of the Republican National Committee

Prepared and distributed to candidates for RNC chairman November 25, 2008, by Morton C. Blackwell, Virginia Republican National Committeeman. The answers are just as provided by Saul Anuzis of Michigan, Ken Blackwell of Ohio, Katon Dawson of South Carolina, Mike Duncan of Kentucky, John “Chip” Saltsman of Tennessee, and Michael Steele of Maryland.

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Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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In my last column I took a look at the bad and the ugly: Proposed legislative Bill Draft Requests (BDRs) which will either grow the size and expense of government or were trivial, foolish, silly wastes of time - like Republican Assistant Assembly Minority Leader Lynn Stewart’s proposed bill to designate an official state bug.

This week let’s take a look at some good BDRs by the shrinking number of true, limited-government conservatives who will be serving in the Legislature this year.

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Posted on January 2nd, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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In a Christmas Eve press release, Gov. Jim Gibbons tried to sneak through an unlawful appointment of a crony’s under-qualified friend to the position of executive director of the Nevada Commission on Tourism (NCOT).

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Posted on January 1st, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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Las Vegas should be embarrassed. Ashamed, actually.

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Posted on January 1st, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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Gov. Jim Gibbons’ stealthy Christmas Eve appointment of Kirk Montero to the vacant Executive Director’s job at the Nevada Commission on Tourism continues to raise eyebrows, to say the least.

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Posted on December 29th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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