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Good morning, everyone. A couple of TV notes: I watched almost the entire first season of “Orange is the New Black” over the weekend. Started slow but became quite engrossing as the backstories were revealed, characters were developed. Some predictability but some great characterizations. I also saw the first three episodes of Steven Soderbergh’s “The Knick,” about a turn-of-the-century hospital. Gruesome and dark, but Clive Owen is amazing.
Premium subscribers over the weekend were treated to...
The Nevada Jobs Coalition, which raised nearly seven figures last cycle and is run by Team Hutchoval, mailed its first pieces into key state Senate districts during the last few days, with a common theme: Apples.
It seems both Becky Harris, running against state Sen. Justin Jones, and Patricia Farley, taking on Assemblywoman Marilyn Dondero Loop, have a lot in common, including apples and Gov. Brian Sandoval. See what I mean by looking at the pieces, which are attached here.
The IE, run by Team...
Two months before the general election, UNITE HERE has erected a new site with a quixotic name: "Fixing Obamacare: An Honest Discussion."
The site contains a column by the union's leader, D. Taylor, who has been very critical of the Obama Administration, but also has sections criticizing the GOP. The union appears to have an eye toward 2016 here but the impact could be felt in 2014, where Democrats had hoped the deleterious political effects of Obamacare had subsided.
"We also know the...
On Labor Day, GOP Treasurer contender Dan Schwartz has made a small TV buy with a couple of 15-second spots.
The ads are bio spots (below), with one strangely saying he will "defend the Millennium Scholarships" (the Legislature decides where that money goes) and will recover $50 million "stolen from our classrooms," a reference to this earlier misfire by him.
Schwartz recently was pummeled by Democrats for essentially not understanding the state general fund, which he said in a speech was "...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. A sextet of premium nuggets, including the first sign of an IE in the key state Senate race, a new Super PAC to help the GOP ground game, Adam Laxalt’s home law office, Cordish’s dress code, Dems losing voters and Ron Knecht and Dan Schwartz might have a budget.
2. Smartest/dumbest moves, coming campaign developments and ranking candidates on their chances to lose
Best insider quotes of the week:
►Next campaign move will be the enhanced efforts of...
News item: State Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson is named “Legislator of the Year” by the "National Education Association’s Pacific Region Republican Educators Caucus.”
So now we know what it takes to get Nevada Democrats angry and activated.
Not the putrid state of education funding in Nevada leaving the state near the cellar.
Not the devastating crisis in Early Language Learners zooming to nowhere in most Clark County schools.
Not the imagination deficit in most of the approaches to...
Good morning, everyone. If you didn’t see it last night (Is there anyone out there who doesn’t watch “Ralston Reports every night?), we got out of our comfort zone and did a location shoot in North Las Vegas right before that Michael Brown rally. The link is below, but if you don’t get a chance, I should tell you that the sense of division may not be as raw as it was in 1992 but it’s palpable. A young man, Charles Ticer, told me of a confrontation with white police officers, and others talked...
Good morning, everyone. The comparison has been made already – the difference in law enforcement response in Ferguson and Bundyville. But Stephen Colbert really captured it last night. He mocked Bundy’s use of the word “Negro,” and then this, referring to the standoff in April: “By the way, black people, why can’t you be more like these guys? They dared the cops to shoot them and nothing happened. Just figure out whatever was different about them, and you’ll be fine.” Brutal. But how can he...
Good morning, everyone. As I have gotten older, I have started to see people I have covered, befriended, known start to pass away. Bob Faiss. Joe Dini. Bernie Anderson. More. I was surprised last night how choked up I got at news of the passing of one man I did not know well but certainly became acquainted with and grew to like: Victor Chaltiel.
I had last seen Chaltiel and his family last year at an ADL dinner at which he was honored. He was filled with his usual enthusiasm and ebullience, so...