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First it was Camden Properties trying to frighten residents not to vote for the margin tax. Corporate officials eventually backed off, saying an overly zealous Vegas local sent it out. But Monday, Ovation Property Management, another Vegas apartment giant, followed suit, with this missive to its residents, which was the usual Chicken Little stuff and also elevated Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick to Congress: INFORMATION REGARDING QUESTION 3: GROSS MARGINS TAX     To Our Valued Residents:   As you...
In 1986, a two-term congressman named Harry Reid successfully ran for the U.S. Senate with the slogan, “Independent Like Nevada.” In 2014, if Nevada voters are not independent, the GOP wave building here will be massive, wiping out legislative majorities, lifting all Republican statewide candidates to victory and making Steven Horsford a one-term congressman. None of those results would surprise me. The Republicans have a nearly 8 percentage-point lead after early and mail ballots have been...
Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick, who has endorsed Adam Laxalt for AG, sent out a missive today through the Washoe GOP that was positively Nixonian. Allow me to annotate: Dear Friends:   Initially, I did not get involved in this year's Attorney General race, but when an unidentified, unsigned, renegade piece of paper was made public by a Democrat-aligned news person and was represented as something valid, I decided it was time to speak up and support Adam Laxalt in his quest...

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