There’s an old Holly Dunn song with a line in it that goes, “When I say no I mean maybe, or maybe I mean yes.” I have now designated that tune as the official theme song for Republican Assembly Minority Leader Garn Mabey.
As I’m sure you read yesterday, Maybe Mabey promised voters last year on the campaign trail that he would vote against any and all efforts to raise taxes this legislative session. But on Wednesday, The Waffler said maybe he could support raising the price you and I pay for a driver’s license, as well as a hefty tax hike on hotel rooms (as long as “the gaming people” tell him it’s OK). Maybe Mabey also said he might change his mind and rescind the “no new tax” pledge he signed last year.
Unfortunately, this sort of weather-vane positioning is nothing new for the Minority Leader. For example, in an email to a constituent last weekend, Maybe Mabey wrote plainly and clearly, “I don’t support full day kindergarten.” But he was singing a completely different tune less than a month ago.
In a Las Vegas Review Journal op/ed published on March 18, 2007, Maybe Mabey wrote, “Our caucus position is that we should keep the current pilot kindergarten program and refrain from embracing legislation that supports universal full-day kindergarten until we can be sure that mandatory full-day kindergarten is beneficial to all our children.”
However, it is NOT true that when asked about relieving the over-crowding problem in the state’s prisons that Maybe Mabey said he was open to the suggestion of just letting rapists and murderers out as long as they promised not to do it again. At least, I don’t THINK it’s true.
Posted on April 20th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada
Double WOW 2 your design!