Just when you thought the small band of wacko Ron Paul supporters - who have been desperately trying to undermine the Nevada GOP convention and elect Paul supporters as delegates to the national convention in Minneapolis this September - couldn’t embarrass themselves (and their candidate) any worse than they already have, these meatheads rise to […]
Posted on June 29th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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It’s one of the most hated Supreme Court decisions in decades, and it happened just three years ago. I’m talking about Kelo vs. New London, where a bare majority of the justices decided that it was OK for local governments looking to increase tax revenue to take land from their citizens and give it […]
Posted on June 29th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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The special session is over. Taxes weren’t raised. Taxpayers win. The budget was balanced without sucking any more money out of the pockets of Nevadans or Nevada’s tourists. Not that some legislators didn’t try.
The stumbling block yesterday was a contested tax on employee meals and meals “comped” to guests by casinos. […]
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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The special session yesterday could have been wrapped up by dinner time at the latest. The Assembly moved expeditiously to approve the plans painstakingly negotiated by Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio and Democrat Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley. But rookie Minority Leader Steven Horsford - running the show for his caucus for the first […]
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Gov. Gibbons co-Chief-of-Staff Diane Cornwall finally sorta got “cornwalled” herself yesterday.
However, the executive department’s gain was the Department of Business & Industry’s loss. Reportedly, Cornwall refused to leave as “Chief Operating Officer” quietly unless the governor found her another taxpayer-funded job in government. So instead of being kicked completely to the […]
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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A lawyer purportedly representing a constituent in Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio’s (R-Reno) district filed a lawsuit seeking to kick the longtime Republican leader off the ballot, claiming he has exceeded the 12-year term limit passed by voters in 1996. This is a similar suit which has also been filed separately against Assembly Speaker […]
Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Forget Florida. Move over Ohio. The battleground state for the Oval Office this year could well be Nevada - and that might not be good news for Republicans.
Syndicated columnist Robert Novak recently completed an exhaustive state-by-state analysis and came to the conclusion that Republican presidential nominee John McCain would squeak out victory in […]
Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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There’s something a lot of Republicans need to learn, especially this year: Many voters don’t vote with their heads, but with their hearts. The person they select on their ballot isn’t always a logical choice, but an emotional one. So Republicans who can and do come to the absolutely logical conclusion that the […]
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Word on the street is that the cost-of-living hike for government workers will take effect on July 1st as planned. You’d think that would mean there’s no need for the Legislature to convene in a special session tomorrow, since requisite budget cuts to close the revenue gap could be made later today by the […]
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki is resurrecting an idea to help plug the budget gap which made a lot of sense several years ago in another context, but is absolutely the wrong thing to do today.
The idea is to “sell” the tobacco settlement money to Wall Street investors for a one-time lump sum. When Krolicki […]
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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