Reno Gazette-Journal reporter Anjeanette Damon reviews the Assembly District 32 GOP primary race today which features Assemblyman John Marvel, who signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge and then famously broke it in 2003 by flip-flopping and voting for the largest tax hike in the state’s history.
One of Marvel’s opponents is perennial candidate and political gadfly Mike […]
Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Nevada’s misguided term limits law has done what voters of Clark County Commission District A have refused to do since the early 1980s - kick the highly respected and popular Bruce Woodbury off the county commission.
The recent Supreme Court decision banning Woodbury from seeking another term, however, didn’t result in Woodbury’s name being taken […]
Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Many of you may remember the 1980s television show “ALF” in which a furry space alien lands on Earth and is adopted by a human family which tries to hide him from discovery by an unsuspecting public.
Well, the plot is similar to one playing out in Nevada today where an unknown alien candidate […]
Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Flashback 2003: Thanks to the Gibbons Tax Restraint law, 15 Republicans in the Assembly were able to block what was to become the largest tax increase in the state’s history. The “Mean 15” hung together blocking the tax hike until one of them flip-flopped and voted for the tax hike anyway. The Republican […]
Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Remember the John Wayne movie “The Cowboys”? In one memorable scene, a young boy with a stuttering problem was unable to tell Wayne’s character, Wil Andersen, that another boy had fallen into the river and was drowning. After the drowning boy is saved by another boy, Wayne’s character chews out “Stuttering Bob” for […]
Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Wayne Terhune, Jeff Greenspan and Mike Weber tried to get a court to do what the Nevada Republican Party refused to do: Give them legitimacy. The Paultards went to court on Friday asking the judge to block the state party from conducting its party affairs as the elected party leaders and party rules saw […]
Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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CityLife editor Steve Sebelius and I have a running battle over what constitutes “necessary” government in general, and government workers in specific. Recently we discussed the matter on Dave Bern’s “State of Nevada” radio program on KNPR in Las Vegas. When the issue of layoffs was raised, Steve whipped out the ol’ argument […]
Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Defeated procedurally at every turn, fringe elements of the Ron Paul movement have now taken their beef to Nevada’s court system.
First, their fearless leader, Jeff “Chemtrail” Greenspan, reneged on a delegate deal at the Nevada GOP convention in April, throwing the get-together into chaos. As a result, no delegates to the national […]
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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“The ‘Enumerated Powers Act’ (H.R. 1359) would compel Congress to identify their Constitutional authority for every law they pass,” writes Jim Babka of DownsizeDC.org this week. “It wouldn’t stop them from passing bad laws, but it sure would highlight the fact that most of what they do has no Constitutional authority at all.
“When we […]
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard has a piece out today on how liberals have organized and are now dominating politics in Colorado. Called “The Colorado Model,” the project has been extremely successful.
“In the last two election cycles–2004 and 2006–(the Democrats have) routed Republicans, capturing the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, a […]
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Chuck Muth
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