I can happily report to you this morning that there is significant, positive movement in the effort to switch the Nevada Republican presidential caucus to 1/19 instead of 2/7. Your calls and emails are definitely having an effect, and I still can’t find anyone who thinks 2/7 is a better date than 1/19…though the […]
Posted on March 22nd, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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From the Department of Duh: State Sen. Bob Beers (R-Las Vegas) has another of his wacky, fiscally responsible ideas. Instead of each government department starting out each fiscal year with the same budget they had last time out and then adding on to it, each department would start each budget year at zero and […]
Posted on March 21st, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley (D-Las Vegas) likes government. No, she loves government. She likes, she loves it, she wants more of it. But Gov. Jim Gibbons (R-Nevada) has said “no new taxes.” And that includes, says the governor, fee increases. Which is driving Buckley up the wall.
Buckley supports a fee […]
Posted on March 21st, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Serial-tax hiker state Sen. Dennis “The Tax Menace” Nolan was at it again yesterday.
His latest scheme to take more money out of our pocketbooks…in addition to taxing a non-existent oil industry in the state, placing a tax-hike on the ballot to pay for roads, and charging parents for kids who play high school sports…is to […]
Posted on March 21st, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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One reader of Nevada News & Views called yesterday asking, “Why are you so intent on moving this thing up to January 19th?” Legitimate question. The answer is simple: Because it is, without a doubt, the best thing for the Nevada Republican Party in particular, and for the state overall.
Just look at the facts. […]
Posted on March 21st, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Nevada Republicans are on the verge of BLOWING perhaps the biggest opportunity they’ve ever had handed to them (some surprise, huh?). That’s the opportunity to join their Democrat colleagues on the national stage in next year’s presidential selection process by being the second state in the nation to weigh in on who the next […]
Posted on March 21st, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Taxpayers are going to have to start referring to state Sen. Dennis Nolan as “Dennis the Tax Menace.”
First he trots out the notion of raising taxes via a ballot initiative for road construction. Next we discover he authored a bill this year to tax a non-existent oil industry in Nevada “in case” we ever […]
Posted on March 19th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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The following letter was sent to Republican Assemblyman John Marvel this morning regarding his violation of the “no tax” pledge he signed less than a year ago…
March 18, 2007
Assemblyman John Marvel
P.O. Box 1270
Battle Mountain, NV 89820-1270
DELIVERED VIA FAX & EMAIL
Dear Assemblyman Marvel,
I am writing today concerning your Tax Pledge to the voters of your district […]
Posted on March 18th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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My idea that members of Congress and their staffs…particularly those in Leadership positions and on security committees…should undergo background checks and training in handling sensitive information…isn’t something new. Rep. Henry Hyde
Posted on March 17th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Happy St. Paddy’s Day from Chuck O’Muth. Some political observations as we continue our slide down the razor-blade of political life. Don’t expect them to make you “green” with envy, though…
* Nevada’s acting-GOP Chairman Paul Willis was on NPR’s “State of Nevada” show last week, but the biggest questions surrounding the proposal […]
Posted on March 17th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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