In addition to the party having an opportunity to shed some baggage by booting Assemblywoman Francis “Fancy Pants” Allen, there’s also a good chance that Jonathan Ozark will take out Assemblyman Robert “Not the Real Bob Beers” Beers (RINO-Henderson, of course). Beers, you’ll recall, is a tool of organized labor who gleefully co-sponsored numerous bills with Democrats in his rookie session last year. Ozark will be a FAR better, more reliably conservative Republican from that district.
In addition, it looks like this year could well be the end of the long and storied political career of Assemblyman John Marvel of Battle Mountain - the man who flip-flopped on the tax vote in 2003, single-handedly allowing the largest tax increase in the state’s history to pass by giving it the 2/3 vote needed.
To be fair, Marvel has been a pretty solid conservative over his career with the exception of his apostasy in 2003. But let’s face it, the man has been there since Lincoln and is in increasingly poor health. It’s time for some new blood in that district.
I wish John would reconsider, not run again and go out on top. Why end a great political career with an embarrassing defeat? He’s acting like an aging boxers who doesn’t know when to hang up the gloves.
Posted on April 24th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada
Here’s a couple of things about Ozark, though.
1. Carpet bagging.
2. When he ran for assembly last time, he had a party at Commander’s Palace on the Las Vegas Strip (I think that is where the very, very ‘elite’ eat), and wrote it off as a campaign expense. Doesn’t recompose with being a ‘fiscal conservative.’
3. Why didn’t he file all his campaign reports when he last ran for assembly in another district a few years ago, as required by law?