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This week:
1. The Senate Democratic implosion
2. Some special session post-mortems from The Weekly Insiders
3. Smartest/dumbest/campaign moves to watch for
Best line of the week: Someone needs to remind Senator Ford that Elon Musk is real and that Paul Blart is just a Mall Cop.
How do you violate the strict law banning fundraising for the next two weeks by lawmakers?
Here’s how: Dozens of violations of the post special session fundraising blackout. From post-...
Imagine if Gov. Brian Sandoval had just said no to Tesla.
Imagine if he had told Elon Musk he would not submit to his demands for as much as a billion dollars in tax breaks.
Imagine if the governor had announced to the world that Nevada would not play the incentives game.
Just imagine. And then realize how insane that is.
You can say Musk was Vito Corelone, making Sandoval an offer he couldn’t refuse, forcing him to accept onerous conditions because there is no alternative. You can say the...
10:17 PM: THE END
6 PM:
Almost done. The big tax break bill passed without any senator standing to say a word except for Majority Leader Mo Denis. Seriously. How do members of both parties justify not explaining their votes on such a history-making (for good or ill) measure?
My guess is this silence does not happen in the Assembly.
We are outta here tonight, barring something unforeseen, he said, realizing he shouldn't be saying it.
4:30 PM:
Assembly not in, but I am told issues with AB2...