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WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Thoughts on Rudy/foreign dudes/Laxalt/Duncan story? Legs? Blip? Classic Nevada, all roads lead here story?
4. The Legislature has been out for four months. What is your sense of what these are up to:
Gov
Leg Dems
Leg Repubs
Interesting that even some who praised gov for reaction to pot/Ukraine story also thought there was a bit of Louis...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. What is Mark Amodei doing?
4. What local issue could affect 2020 in Nevada: Special session for XXXX; the economy; pot industry scandal; something else (what is it?)?
Some wonderful stuff in here on Amodei – the opinions do differ except on him not meeting the binary DC code on impeachment – and some very interesting tidbits throughout....
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?2. Most interesting thing you read about Nevada politics this week?
3. What's your take on the national psychodrama and how it affects Nevada in 2020?
4. Any thoughts on RJ vs. Sun?
Not surprised that many of these smart folks got what Amodei said and why it was twisted, nor am I surprised they get the Billionaire vs. Millionaire story of The Not-So-Great Las Vegas Newspaper War.
►This is an interesting point: Not...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Don't you think the Basque Fry last weekend cemented Adam Laxalt as the GOP leader in Nevada? If it's not him, who is it? And what does that mean?
4. Rate these in order of likelihood: Zach Conine becomes governor/Aaron Ford becomes governor/Mark Amodei becomes governor/Heidi Gansert becomes governor/Ben K. becomes governor/Dean Heller...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Debate thoughts?
Lots of good thoughts and rants as my insiders return to form after a two-week break.
I was interested about the attention paid to the RJ and the LVCVA, from a variety of sources. If you step back and think about it, it’s truly incredible and revolting: A newspaper is purchased by the single biggest economic and political...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Your take on CCSD vs. CCEA, Jara, the gov, lawmakers. Write as short or as long as you want.
4. Tick and Sheila Leslie want a special session. Does anyone else? Guns? School funding? Odds?
No one thinks there will be a special, everyone thinks John Vellardita is an ass but he’s winning, most are not huge Jesus Jara fans and the veterans...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Have fun with this one: Who would be the strongest GOP candidate against Steve Sisolak in 2022? A. Adam Laxalt. B. Mark Amodei C. Ben Kieckhefer D. Michele Fiore E. Someone else (who?)
4. Who is the person not ordinarily mentioned as an up and comer whom we should keep an eye on?
5. One year from now, pot in Nevada will be:
A. Shut down
B...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. After the tragedies in El Paso and Dayton, you think anything changes in Nevada vis a vis guns? If so, how?
Welcome to the summer doldrums and cynicism on guns….
►We’re on it! The media must better scrutinize our state budget. Enrollments in schools, Medicaid, prisons, etc will continue to strain limited resources. We can’t wait until the...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week:
1. Smartest/dumbest political moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read about Nevada politics this week?
3. Any thoughts on the Dem debates? Any insight on who is doing well (I know it's early!) in Nevada?
Some really smart, raw and passionate stuff this week:
►Damn: Two mass shootings in 24 hours, the El Paso attack was clearly hate based. The Narcissist in Chief, tweets out his condolences, Democrats engage in the all too predictable hand...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
It’s been awhile. I’ll start asking about smartest/dumbest moves and the most interesting thing my insiders read next week. But this week, I wanted to set the baseline for the 2020 campaign with these questions:
1. What issues are out there in Nevada that could affect the elections here -- from top to bottom? Any not-so-obvious ones?
2. Set the initial odds on:
Trump winning Nevada
Dems holding both houses of the Legislature
Susie Lee winning re-election
Steven...