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WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. A third of the way through the session, which leader has the best handle on his or her caucus? Which chairs are impressing and which are not and why?
4. Best bill and worst bill so far?
Some consensus on good/bad chairs, even on some bad bills/resolutions. As I told one of my insiders, none of this makes me miss being up...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Tesla: Good or bad for the state? Any political ramifications at all?
4. What else is happening in Carson? Anything to report?
Good stuff, as always, from the insiders. Excellent perspective on the Tesla deal, not much positivity about the first month of session…
►All snow and no work: Snow days? Really? And then to follow up...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Thoughts on our poll results? (The gov/Leg issues one will be released tomorrow, too.)
4. Any thoughts after the first week? I know it's early but any harbingers at all? Battles to come?
5. Super Bowl prediction?
Really good stuff from the insiders, including on Granholm-Lombardo dustup. Split on Super Bowl picks (I love...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Gov appointments: George Assad to GCB and Dwayne McClinton as energy czar. Thoughts?
4. Session starts Monday -- some prop bets (and explain your answer):
Vetoes over or under 5
Caucus most likely to have coup attempt
Special session or no
Best committee chair
Worst committee chair
ADD YOUR OWN
Consensus among insiders...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Thoughts on the State of the State speech? Style? Substance? Surprises? Flashpoints?
4, IndyTalks with Lombardo -- what was of interest?
Generally good reviews from the insiders for the State of the State. (For one of those ;aundry list addresses, I thought it was pretty good, too.) Gov was even better at Indy Talks and...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. State of the State is Monday. Predictions? Also, will the Dem response by Yeager/Cannizzaro be magnanimous or confrontational?
4. What little-known issue could become a big one during the session?
Some interesting stuff from the insiders on the speech and the percolating issues. So much talk of inaugural balls, which no...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Thoughts on Lombardo executive orders?
4. Can you think of any major area of policy or a specific piece of legislation where the governor and the Dem Legislature can compromise? Where is that likely to be?
5. Beyond the obvious ones (the leaders), who is likely to be a pivotal lawmaker this session in either house or both...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. Speculate about the new Lombardo administration: Who will he hire? Who should he hire? What kind of governor will he be?
Great response from the insiders this week, as you will see.
Before we begin, a note: I texted Ben Kieckhefer about becoming Joe Lombardo’s chief of staff on Wednesday. He has yet to reply. I am sure it...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. React to results: Biggest surprises? Trends? Observations? Go to town!
I am in mourning from the Bills loss and in no mood to write much – I will do a post-mortem column at some point – so let me briefly say that the insiders really put a lot of through into this one. I appreciate them, and you should, too.
►Long musing:...
WELCOME TO THE WEEKLY REPORT
This week’s questions:
1. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week?
2. Most interesting thing you read or heard about Nevada politics this week?
3. I'll ask for predictions next week, so this week: What have been the next campaigns this cycle, and which candidates have performed the best? Which have been the worst?
The insider who (rightly) gave me a hard time for asking a group of campaign consultants and lobbyists for the best/worst campaigns was right, but many did put...