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As if the opposition needed more money, the Realtors have formed a political action committee dedicated to defeating The Education Initiative, a k a the margin tax.
Realtors Against Question 3, which they cleverly call RAQ3 for short (ain't that catchy?), was formed last week.
So the Realtors join the gamers, miners, retailers and chamberites in raising money to fight this deadly scourge.
Anyone else in?
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. Crosstabs from that poll on Reid-Sandoval and more
2. Inside story of how the Washoe trustees think they got around the Open Meeting Law to hire Kent Robison
3. The Weekly Insiders on the poll, stadium dreams, CD3 and Tesla
4. Smartest/dumbest moves and coming campaign developments
Some great lines from my insiders this week:
►On Tesla coming or not: “If Nevada is the highest bidder, they will come. Our state is the desperate girl at the end of the...
News item: Gov. Brian Sandoval leads Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid by 53-43 in a hypothetical 2016 Senate matchup
Imagine a collective Republican cry of ecstasy.
Whatever sound that makes, it reverberated across the interwebs last week after I posted the first public results of the race Republicans dream will happen: The manifestly popular Sandoval vs. the serially unpopular Harry Reid.
By week’s end, numerous conservative blogs had published the results, which also showed Reid with a 55...
Canadian mining giant Barrick has tapped Brian Greenspun for its board, creating yet another conflict for the Las Vegas Sun publisher who already is hopelessly compromised because of his closeness to Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid and because of his entrance into the medical marijuana business.
Barrick Vice President Michael Brown, in an email gushing about the news, told folks that Greenspun is the first Nevadan ever appointed to the board, coming, coincidentally, a few months before a ballot...