by Jon Ralston Tue, 10/29/2013 - 15:51
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I hear the new regime has a fundraising idea to recoup all that lost Establishment money leaving the state Dem Part… t.co/lM7oUqyCYQ
7 hours 29 min ago.
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"It’s pretty simple, really. The bill calls for automatically sealing eviction records incurred during the pandemic… t.co/ARLode52JM
9 hours 30 min ago.
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Correction: The $450K was vamoosed from the party closer to the state chair election.
They knew they were underdog… t.co/CdDan5r7Bh
9 hours 57 min ago.
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If you think the Reid Machine didn't anticipate this chair loss after Bernie won caucus, $450K was transferred out… t.co/dV1BoItmbY
10 hours 14 min ago.
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"The big question regarding minimum wage, therefore, isn’t whether there will be negative consequences from an incr… t.co/CDrTA1nqkc
10 hours 35 min ago.
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"COVID-19, like the bubonic plague, will still be with us — and that will be fine."
"Mask wearing probably won’t be… t.co/DcxM0LWmjk
11 hours 1 sec ago.
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Home prices are exploding in both urban areas, and the Legislature is about to confront the problem of affordable h… t.co/c7cgHDv6Pa
11 hours 24 min ago.
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@meganmesserly "It was a year that would pit the state’s public health needs against its economic ones, every day a… t.co/zjHwtODyYy
13 hours 29 min ago.
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It's a long story, but one worth telling and one worth your time. With lots of new reporting using her unmatched so… t.co/93MOU0OW32
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@vinnyspot @tsegerblom Indeed.
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@AJW_SP Exactly!
1 day 5 hours ago.
Don’t believe me?
He described southerners asnot like rural Nevadans and who want to take northern money (the horror!), and he suggested Clark County could be split off into a separate district or (facetiously, I think) traded to Calfironia.
rule-breakersHere’s exactly what he said about Southern Nevada on the now-infamous video:
“That is the biggest divide in the state, North and South. Las Vegas wants everything and they don’t care about the rules (UPDATE: (may be "rurals," but hard to hear, so transcriptionist may have erred), okay. And I have no other way to put it; they don’t care about the rules (also, "rurals," now that I listen again). They want our mining money and they want more of it, and they want to be able to take money.”
And this:
“(I was) so frustrated over some of the bills that Las Vegas ….that we were actually going to try and start the paperwork to split the state.
Group: Yay!
Jim Wheeler: We will try to – we will try to make Clark County its own state…
Next Speaker: Oh my God!
Jim Wheeler: …or, or better yet, a district.
Group: [Inaudible]
Jim Wheeler: Because you can’t – in our constitution, you cannot split the state into another state. That’s in the United States Constitution. But, we could make it a district.
Next Speaker: Yeah, yes.
Jim Wheeler: Yes.
Next Speaker: Do you remember, I think it was in the 70s, when… we discovered (the South) wasn’t even within the State border?
Jim Wheeler: Yeah. Yeah, I was actually [inaudible]….And Senator Tom McClintock from California, I made him an offer. He can have Vegas and we’ll take….Tahoe.
You’ve heard of Gentlemen Jim; we have Genius Jim.
Any Southern Nevada lawmakers want to speak up?
Hello? Hello?
How about:
Well, I heard Mr. Wheeler sing about her. I heard ole Jim put her down. Well, I hope Jim Wheeler will remember, A Southern man don't need him around, anyhow.
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