That's the gist of an agreement between the city of Las Vegas and the Culinary Union on redevelopment, an issue that once caused Mayor Oscar Goodman to call the labor organization "evil" after it tried to block the new City Hall project and erase the city's redevelopment district because the [...]
Ex-Assemblywoman Sharron Angle continues to pitch the base on her chances against Sen. Harry Reid, arguing she is better than her opponents in a pitch to her likely fans:
Dear Fellow Conservative,
After I announced my candidacy for Harry Reid's U.S. Senate seat on October 21, here's what the media had to [...]
Below is a transcript of Monday's "Nightline" interview with Doug Hampton, the former chief of staff to Sen. John Ensign who has accused his ex-boss of committing crimes after having an affair with Cindy Hampton:
Sot introduction of Ensign at 2008 RNC: "Ladies and gentleman, the Honorable John Ensign from Nevada" [...]
Perhaps the state's most prominent Republican campaign operatives -- Sig Rogich and Pete Ernaut -- are supporting Democratic Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto for re-election. They are on an Encore fundraiser next month, along with some prominent Democrats, including the last two governors from the party -- Richard Bryan and [...]
He's also the national committeeman for the GOP and was recruited by the RNC to disgorge its talking points today in a conference call with reporters. List said Reid will "pay a price" next year for his role.
I have posted the audio at right.
[...]Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tells Homeland Security boss to cancel a FEMA exercise (nuclear bomb simulation on the Strip). I'd bet Janet Napolitano listens -- or already has.
The letter is at right.
' [...]Here's a series of Tweets I sent from the first forum in the 2010 Senate race as nine GOP candidates gathered at the Railroad Pass Casino:
First 2010 U.S. Senate debate with GOPers in Henderson about to start. Snow White and dwarves here. Like to say electricity in air. Can't.
Now saying' [...]
Yes, that's what happened today. Hoping to capitalize on the phantom congressional districts in stimulus reporting story (first discovered by yours truly two weeks ago), GOP Senate contender Tarkanian announced a web ad today attacking Harry Reid. The semi-clever ad uses an X-Files motif to lampoon Reid for the phantom [...]
The petition was filed on behalf of the national SOS (Save Our Secret Ballot) campaign. I have posted the filing with the other SOS (Secretary of State) at right.
This will keep the unions busy....
[...]He can. Really, he can.
Or so a Sandoval for Governor fundraising invite would have you believe. Sandoval, who has been seen as a moderate vulnerable to Mike Montandon and Jim Gibbons on the right, is being feted by some very conservative folks, including at least two members of the Reno [...]
So claims a mail piece arriving Friday in the North using Harrah's executive Jan Jones' hyperbolic claim of saving 31,000 jobs -- now the word is "protect" -- that was first used in a Southern Nevada piece posted elsewhere on this blog. The issue is Reid's effort to insert a' [...]
That's the initiative that would ban abortion and impose restrictions on end-of-life decisions. The legal docs are posted at right.
Plaintiffs include longtime local writer Emmily Bristol, who has been married to her high school sweetheart for 12 years and is 12 weeks pregnant.
“Supporters of the so-called ‘Personhood Initiative’ intend this [...]
The respected Pew Center on the States prepared a report looking at other states besides stricken California that are hurting disproportionately. Not a lot new here for Nevadans who have been following this, but more proof, based on some measurements the Pew folks used, that we are down and not [...]
That's right Jim and Dawn Gibbons are back together -- but don't get carried away, folks; it's just for one night, as special guest speakers for an anti-drug awareness foundation on Dec. 9. The headline was just irresistible; the cause is very worthy.
The event is at the home of Sierra' [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is powerful, determined, close to the president, helped elevate an Hispanic to the Supreme Court, saved jobs in the gaming industry, supported green jobs with T. Boone Pickens, backs the military, loves and helps cops and backs education. And on the seventh day....
That's the message [...]
That's what South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint said Tuesday night during a conference call on Senate races around the country. I have posted the audio file at right -- the quality is not great -- and below are emails from the SCF and the Sue Lowden campaign about the call:
November [...]
A memo prepared for the Sue Lowden for U.S. Senate campaign by Robert Uithoven, who is managing the race, declares that the Tuesday elections bode well for her candidacy. I am not sure I agree with some of the conclusions -- including the apples to oranges comparison with Barack Obama's' [...]
Sarah Palin's dad wrote a letter backing little Tark and the campaign sent out an email with a picture of the entire Palin clan (alas, no Levi) and a pitch to contribute. Here's Chuck Heath's letter to Nevadans:
FROM THE DESK OF CHUCK HEATH
Hello Nevadans,
My family and I would like to [...]
Secretary of State Ross Miller surely will raise a boatload of money at Larry Ruvo's place in Glenbrook come Dec. 10. So I guess he's running for re-election then?
The save-the-date card is at right.
[...]The respected Capitol Hill publication says seats of Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Dina Titus are "lean Democratic." But Rep. Dean Heller looks safe for now.
The analysis:
Nevada
Filing deadline: March 12 | Primary: June 8
Senate
Incumbent: Harry Reid (D)
4th Term (61 percent)
Outlook: Leans Democratic
After surviving close contests in his first three Senate [...]
A Nevada Day invite emailed from Jim Gibbons' campaign manager, Robert Olmer, gives notice of a Nov. 11 fundraiser for the governor at the Robert M. Lee car collection in Reno. The event is hosted by the law firm closest to Gibbons, McDonald, Carano, Wilson, where his lawyer and Athletic' [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is putting that multimillion-dollar war chest to more use, going up with his third campaign ad more than a year before the election. This one is all about alternative energy.
The ad’s script can be found below:
Announcer: It’s in the desert sky and [...]
That's the gist of a letter from Mayor Oscar Goodman and Councilman Steve Ross to county commissioners, embroiled in that never-ending dispute over who should be let a contract for more than $100 million worth of work. They want the county to get the work going. The letter is at [...]
As Harry Reid's campaign released the 1981 police report on the well-documented attempt on his life, Gov. Jim Gibbons joined in the "fun" with talk show host Heidi Harris, bizarrely making light of the crude explosive device placed under the hood:
“I know very little about the investigation,” laughed Governor Gibbons [...]
Is it routine or a sign that the Federal Election Commission has found serious irregularities in Sen. John Ensign's last three PAC reports? We will know by Nov. 13, when Ensign must respond.
The letter, posted at right, indicates the senator has not properly disclosed who is paying the operating costs [...]
The surge in nonpartisan registration, which may be the key to elections here and elsewhere, is documented in a new analysis of third-quarter voter registration trends in Clark County conducted by Applied Analysis. The study showed Democrats and Republicans registering below their existing percentages, but Republicans hemorrhaging much more to [...]
Robert Holloway, who has been attacking Senate contender Sue Lowden since the 2008 GOP convention, claims to represent a group of Republicans still upset with then-Chairman Lowden's shutting down the proceedings when it looked as if the Paulites would take over. Convention boss Bob Beers and Lowden claimed the room [...]
So says Senate hopeful Sue Lowden in a four-page fundraising pitch that uses several angles against Majority Leader Harry Reid, including his controversial quotes, to try to engage potential contributors. I have posted it at right.
[...]A long list of folks want to be on the state's Vision Stakeholder Group, which is the emetic-like name of the group designated to study (again) the state's tax structure. It is interesting to see not just who has been nominated but who nominated them -- lots of self-promotion, sucking [...]
Richard Ziser, who helped ban gay marriage in the state, today filed an initiative petition to prevent the state from intruding in people's lives at the beginning (defined as before birth in the wording) to the end, which would prevent any death panels from deciding who lives and dies. Ziser' [...]
Some of you may have noticed that I have stopped taking time to point out the myriad mistakes/hypocrisy/inanities that characterize the Flash Follow-Up Journal on a regular basis. I have decided to generally ignore the relative irrelevancy that is that news organization. But when it makes a mistake – or [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's unfavorable rating is above 50 percent, but he still is almost within the margin of error against Sue Lowden and Danny Tarkanian, according to a new poll conducted by The Progressive Change Campaign Committee this weekend and Monday. The poll is a tool the group [...]
Jerry Tarkanian and other "Rebel legends," including Larry Johnson and the 1990 national champs, will help U.S. Senate contender Danny Tarkanian raise money against Harry Reid next month:
You are cordially invited to attend a fundraising reception with
Larry Johnson
& the
1990 UNLV National Championship Team
along with
Legendary coach Jerry Tarkanian & other Rebel [...]
Because Brian Sandoval being the favorite to become governor certainly played no role in Jones Vargas hiring the man with a "truly unique" resume. (Pet peeve alert: "Unique" cannot take a modifier.) The ad that ran today up North celebrating Sandoval's hiring is at right.
[...]Rep. Dina Titus exploits the franking privilege to hype how she is helping to create jobs in Congressional District 3 through the recovery act. It's not as nakedly political as Rep. Dean Heller's attack piece on health care reform paid for by taxpayers, too. But it's a little more than [...]
Or at least he did in 1992. So nobody should say anything bad about either of them -- Sue Lowden, his opponent, or Paul Lowden, the gaming licensee -- including the Harry Reid of 2009-2010, right?
See letter at right.
[...]That's what you do when you have the money and need to fix your poll numbers. There are two ads -- one that goes up today in Reno and one that goes up in Las Vegas. They are posted at right.
[...]At least it's a start and is posted at right. He says Nevada is at "a virtual crossroads of the global
marketplace for goods, for services, for people, for ideas, and for information."
Lots of stuff in there -- some rhetoric, some heft. You be the judge.
[...]Or so the flyer for his gubernatorial announcement claims. It is at right.
[...]Jodi Stephens, who was a good soldier for the governor, is being rewarded with some strong support for her Assembly bid. See event notice at right.
[...]Betty Guerra will not be prosecuted after all for doing the same things that an assistant who worked for a medical board member was doing. The pressure mounted on the attorney general after a "Face to Face" investigation exposed the disparate treatment and catalyzed a political firestorm that resulted in [...]
County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani, once the bane of many a lobbyist's existence (and maybe still so), has a lot of those folks and many others on her invitation for her re-election kickoff at The Stirling Club (how establishment can you get!) later this month.
Here's the invite sent by email:
Please Join [...]
I ran into Gondolier Numero Uno Sheldon Adelson recently at the Golden Nugget while I was breaking bread with gubernatorial hopeful Rory Reid. After telling Reid the Younger how much he personally liked his father, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Adelson told me he would be happy to come [...]
Ain't it the truth. Those are the words from the NBC political team in their early morning dispatch calling Nevada the fifth most interesting state to watch in 2010. The full item:
*** States To Watch In 2010 -- Nevada: The stories emerging out of this presidential battleground state are almost' [...]
James Oberstar tells Gov. Jim Gibbons he is a slug on road spending from stimulus funds. The letter is at right.
[...]Those are proposals that will come before the Spending and Government Efficiency Commission Thursday. How much money will they save? They have no idea.
I have posted the proposals at right.
[...]In the Unclaimed Property Fund, Kate Marshall says. She transferred $50 million in all to the general fund, $12 million over projections. Read her letter to lawmakers at right.
[...]State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford has informed Gov. Jim Gibbons he should call for the resignation of Dr. Benjamin Rodriguez from the state med board. Horsford said Gibbons cannot overlook board members "that tacitly condone illegal conduct" -- a medical assistant injecting dangerous drugs. Horsford also lamented that the [...]
Judge Kathleen Delaney will hold a hearing Sept. 29 on allegations the state Board of Medical Examiners violated the Open Meeting Law by cutting off public comment before voting to ban medical assistants from certain procedures. The judge's order and the plaintiffs' press release is posted at right.
' [...]In an email exchange with the attorney general's office on Feb. 17, Medical Examiners Board Executive Director Louis Ling, who has lamented the confusion caused by the media on who can inject, made the board's position clear: "Because the administration of Botox (or any other dangerous drug) requires licensure per" [...]
That's the gist of a bizarre order county commissioners have to abide by in that paving contract dispute that they now have to rehear for the third time. Read it at right and see if you believe it.
[...]Maybe you don’t care about the regulation of medical assistants in Nevada, but here’s what you should care about:
----A medical board that caused confusion by its own mixed messages and by protecting one of its own while it pursued legal action against someone not fortunate enough to be working for [...]
That's the gist of the opinion Brian Sandoval was given a few weeks after he was approached to run for governor and 10 days before he made his announcement to resign from the bench, signaling his bid. I have posted it at right.
[...]That's what the Federal Railroad Administration said in a statement: "FRA has made neither an award nor an announcement with regard to funding for maglev development in Nevada." The governor's office said it has reason to believe that a contract will be awarded imminently. I have posted an old email [...]
Charles Harvey, fresh on the job as the state's stimulus czar, already has become embroiled in the tussle between the governor's office and state Controller Kim Wallin. Seems after Harvey told state agencies to report to him on stimulus money, Wallin informed agencies that they only have to provide partial [...]
Rep. Dean Heller and 52 of his colleagues want to make sure illegal immigrants don't get health care and have an amendment to a bill none of them would ever vote for. I have posted his letter to House leaders on the subject at right.
' [...]In a letter sent this morning to Gov. Jim Gibbons, Reps. Dina Titus and Shelley Berkley, calling the delay "inexcusable," ask for an accounting of why Nevada ranks 46th in getting road projects out to bid, despite receiving $201 million in stimulus funds. The letter is at right.
[...]Senate Majority Leader responded "with best wishes" to Gov. Jim Gibbons' letter, posted earlier today on this site, on unfunded mandates for Medicaid. The gist: It's a shared responsibility between the feds and the states and I've done my part and I love health care reform. Or words to that [...]
It's next week and will be all about the impact on small businesses from all that evil legislation the Democrats are proposing. Or something like that. See the notice at right.
[...]In series of letters to feds, Gibbons Administration seeks to borrow $264 million for last quarter of year to make unemployment fund solvent; get rid of interest payments on loan; and, on separate issue, avoid unfunded mandates for Medicaid.
Letters posted at right.
[...]It wouldn't seem so according to Citizen Outreach -- that's Chuck Muth's group, whose crack researcher Karri Bragg took 65 bills and analyzed voting records. Most Democrats scored in single digits -- there's a shocker -- but many Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio and U.S. Senate hopeful Mark' [...]
The piece is an all-out attack on "government-run health care" and makes many controversial assertions , including that "114 million Americans could lose their current medical coverage under the majority's healthcare plan." I scanned the piece in three parts, which can be seen at right, but it was so extensive [...]
Dr. Benjamin Rodriguez quickly took down the ads for his Botox practice, which showed him being injected by someone he identified as a "nurse" but who is actually a medical assistant, after we strated asking questions. And as we pointed out on "Face to Face" this week, that is not [...]
That's the race for Terry Care's state Senate seat. And if you look at the invitation at right for Kathy McClain's first fundraiser, you can see Mark Manendo is not the choice of most of his colleagues or a lot of lobbyists. They better hope she wins....
' [...]The state party, trying to squelch the Dump Reid PAC and discredit smashmouth operative Chuck Muth, has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. Standard fare, although it may create the loudest martyr you have heard. The complaint, which I have posted at right with attachments, should be resolved [...]
At right is what the Assembly Democrats are handing out to prospective candidates. They actually want to know why someone wants to run and why a candidate believes he or she is qualified. Novel approach. I just wonder how the current crop would fare on such a questionnaire.
[...]The lawsuits can now go forward in the first three cases involving the clinic run by Dipak Desai. The order is posted at right.
[...]Rep. Dean Heller has some suggestions for the president before tonight's address. I am sure Barack Obama will change his speech just in time. See Heller's letter, which he hopes the media will read if the president doesn't, at right.
' [...]So the laborers', who are part of the building trades that already have endorsed Rory Reid for governor, will endorse him, too. See letter at right.
' [...]In one of -- if not THE -- most critical state Senate races of Campaign 2010, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has taken sides with the incumbent Republican, Barbara Cegavske. This is a nice coup for Cegavske, who persuaded Goodman, a Democrat in name only who has said he may [...]
That's the message from gubernatorial Chief of Staff Robin Reedy to Controller Kim Wallin in a snippy letter that chides Wallin for not going through the governor's office to meet with the new stimulus czar and tries to reassert the chain of command. The tone is unusually patronizing as you [...]
The L.A. mayor says he loves Harry Reid's son for governor and gets some entertainment execs to help front an event for him. The invite is at right.
[...]Check out the picture at right. That is Bob Brown, the RJ's advertising manager, posing with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at that chamber luncheon and beaming at the opportunity, only moments after he supposedly felt threatened by Reid saying, "I hope you go out of business." Would someone, who' [...]
The former county commissioner, apparently using the Latin Chamber of Commerce list, emailed a solicitation today for his new job at an environmentally friendly printing company. The convicted felon, now serving time in a halfway house, sent his pitch far and wide. I have posted it at right, where he [...]
You may have seen Review-Journal Publisher Sherman Frederick's ridiculous rant against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Sunday's RJ. He took an obvious joke and turned it into something to fire up the anti-Reid caucus -- inside his newspaper and around the country. Check it out if you want -- [...]
A couple of Gibbons administration budget documents show various economic indicators and how they detail what has happened during the recession and what might happen in the last part of the year. The bottom line: $31.6 million below projections for the recently ended fiscal year and bad indicators for the [...]
A couple of days after the AFL-CIO, apparently shilling for Democratic legislators, tried to stop energy stimulus money from being spent by the Gibbons administration, the attorney general's office has sent the umbrella union group a stinging letter. The missive essentially says the AFL misinterpreted a health insurance provision and [...]
They think they can dump Reid. See the mail piece at right.
[...]That's the message in a news release by Controller Kim Wallin, who now has to acknowledge that The Man Formerly Known as Governor was right that he can pretty much do whatever he wants with the stimulus money, thanks to an AG opinion. Oh, the humanity!
UPDATE: THE OPINION IS POSTED' [...]
And the pitch is posted at right.
[...]Unwilling to let the controller stop him, Jim Gibbons is proceeding with allocations of stimulus money. He is giving lawmakers "information" but doesn't think they can take any "action." See the programs at right.
' [...]That's what a letter from Jim Gibbons' chief of staff to Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto says, claiming that Controller Kim Wallin is trying to veto the administration's executive order on stimulus funds. Now Masto has to enter a nasty political fight.
I have posted the letter at right, as well' [...]
The suit, which will ruffle a lot of feathers because of the prominence of some of the restaurants and what is being alleged, is posted at right.
[...]It's called of the Interim Finance Committee’s Subcommittee to Conduct a Review of Nevada’s Revenue Structure. What is it? The interim study approved by lawmakers that, for the umpteenth time, will study Nevada's tax structure and find it wanting. But there will be visions and stakeholders and some definition of [...]
Fearful that the state controller will slow down the stimulus money, the governor's office, after consulting with the AG, delivered a letter to Kim Wallin this morning that cites Nevada law giving Jim Gibbons the authority to disburse funds in an emergency without prior legislative approval. And so this embarrassing, [...]
That's the message of an executive order Gov. Jim Gibbons just issued, one that erases (or attempts to) legislative action taking stimulus money out of his control. I have posted the executive order and the governor's statement at right.
[...]A law governing how much money the county can spend on social services, that is. The Legislative Counsel Bureau opinion is posted elsewhere on this blog; the county DA's opinion is at right. This is all about the aftermath of the legislative rape of local governments, with the county trying [...]
I don't care whether he is affecting change or effecting change -- see below -- libel verdict winner Danny Tarkanian, who has never won a race, must think he has no baggage and can suddenly become a U.S. senator. His bizarre announcement -- 916 area code? -- is below:
Danny Tarkanian' [...]
Let the anointment continue. See endorsement letter at right.
[...]State lawmakers, perhaps trying to assuage their guilt for raping the county treasury to pay their bills, have been trying to persuade county officials they have more flexibility than to cut social services. So they had their attorney craft a legal opinion that may -- or may not (more likely) [...]
State lawmakers, perhaps trying to assuage their guilt for raping the county treasury to pay their bills, have been trying to persuade county officials they have more flexibility than to cut social services. So they had their attorney craft a legal opinion that may -- or may not (more likely) [...]
You may have read this in Sunday's newspaper:
Now, a spokesman for an online travel site group says a tax advisory opinion makes the issue moot here. Not quite. It's only an opinion. But it's worth reading at right.
[...]That was the message that Doug Hampton, whose wife had an affair with John Ensign, sent to ex-Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a pal of Ensign's, the day before Ensign disclosed the affair. The email lends credence to Hampton's assertion that Santorum tipped Ensign rather than sympathizing with Hampton.
Read the email' [...]
The emails, between Mike Slanker and Doug Hampton and Lindsey Slanker and Cindy Hampton, show the Slankers knew of the affair between John Ensign and Cindy Hampton while they were working in 2008 at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which the senator headed. The previous implication had been they did [...]
That's what business license boss Jacqueline Holloway said in a letter sent to the resort's attorney, Frank Schreck. I have posted the letter at right. Now the juice assault on the County Commission, which will hear the appeal Aug. 4, commences.
[...]Jim Gibbons, a k a The Man Formerly Known as Governor, has seized on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's continual pronouncements that the dump is dead to raise a question about his real influence. Very clever. I have posted his letter to Reid at right.
[...]Judy Treichel warns gubernatorial hopeful Mike Montandon of the dangers of inviting the feds to send nuclear waste here. See her letter at right.
[...]Below is a list of questions that Sen. John Ensign has refused to answer about his scandal. These are questions that Ensign has an obligation to answer, regardless of his fig leaf of "on the advice of counsel" he is using to advance his cover up. I will continue to [...]
Dan Klaich does the Jim Rogers thing. I have posted it at right.
[...]
