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Poll: Flores viable in LG's race, life story is a big plus
Assemblywoman Lucy Flores is hardly known by Nevada voters but has a compelling life story and “would have a good chance of winning an election against (state Sen.) Mark Hutchison,” according to a national pollster who surveyed the lieutenant governor’s race for her. Geoff Garin tested positives and negatives for Flores and Hutchison, who still has a primary with Sue Lowden to overcome, and found that she would lose, 41-35, in an initial heat but would nip Hutchison, 46-43, after voters were...
Could GOP freak show threaten the national convention coming to Vegas?
I am trying to help the Republicans land the 2016 national convention in Vegas, but they are so….helpless. As I have previously declared, I want my city to get the convention because it would finally get rid of all the Rodney Dangerfield references, because it would force everyone to pronounce the state’s name correctly and, well, because it would be good for a Nevada journalist with a television program. Not necessarily in that order. But why, oh why are these people trying to sabotage my...
High court reaffirms faith in rule of shield law
I kept saying I never had any doubts how the case would turn out. But I doubted. And I was afraid. I knew that what John Bailey, the lawyer for ex-Gov. Kenny Guinn’s son, was trying to do was outrageous and unethical and wouldn’t be sanctioned in any other profession: Lying in court documents about a journalist’s integrity to smear her and chill her reporting.  And I firmly believed that the state Supreme Court had opted to consider Bailey’s petition for extraordinary relief mostly to squash...
Fiore bragged about carrying weapons in gun-free zones, mocked governor, chancellor in speech to conservative GOP group
Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, who last week talked about picketers being shot and how she would “hire thugs” if she were running the Cosmopolitan, said last month she carries weapons in gun-free zones, sneered at the governor for making the wrong GOP chairman choice and made an anatomically impossible reference to the chancellor, among other off-color and bizarre remarks. Fiore, pictured at right with her close friend and Assembly hopeful Victoria Seaman, whom she touted in her speech to the...

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