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National Journal's Hotline this week posted a piece on Gov. Brian Sandoval, joining many others in using the sunny meme that has stuck since shortly after he was elected in 2010.
The piece is about the goal, elicited by the Las Vegas Sun's Anjeanette Damon, of Gov. Sunny's re-election campaign to get 50 percent of the Hispanic vote next year. Sandoval, by running to the right of Gov. Jim Gibbons three years ago, was crushed by a 2-to-1 margin by Rory Reid among Latinos.
He has since done a lot...
Las Vegas Sun Publisher Brian Greenspun cannot sue the parent company of the Review-Journal until a deal is signed between his siblings and Stephens Media, a judge ruled today.
Greenspun's attorney, Joe Alioto, says he is preparing an appeal to the Ninth Circuit to prevent the RJ from dissolving a decades-old Joint Operating Agreement.
The order from Judge James Mahan is below.
UPDATED: Alioto also told me that he believes that the RJ's attorneys were responsible for Leif Reid's request to...
In one of the more remarkable television interviews with a politician I have ever seen, ex-Rep. Shelley Berkley eviscerated her U.S. Senate campaign staff for bottling her up, not having a strategy and being too paranoid.
"If I had to do it over again, I wouldn't let these people run my bathwater," Berkley told Hugh Jackson and Elizabeth Crum on KSNV's "The Agenda" on Wednesday afternoon.
Berkley, who has been saying privately since she lost to Sen. Dean Heller in November that her campaign...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Clark County awakens shocked, shocked to find there is sex occurring in sex clubs.
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 159
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 258
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 405
Good morning, everyone. It occurred to me during Ted Cruz’s ongoing “fakebuster” that Obamacare nationally is analogous to the margin tax locally. Obamacare is something that Democrats want to...
This is not the last you wiil hear of this: Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey, sitting down with a friendly interviewer (Dan Mason) on conservative talk radio, got careless and talked about how great for the GOP that young people and minorities won't turn out in presidential year numbers in 2014.
The Democrats had an energize-the-base missive out about it shortly after he said it, saying in part: "Yes, you heard that right -- the Republican Party is so out-of-touch with Nevada families they...
Leif Reid, whose father is the Senate majority leader, withdrew today as Las Vegas Sun Publisher/Editor Brian Greenspun's lawyer in his suit against the Review-Journal's parent company.
Harry Reid's son also is asking the court to seal his reasons for withdrawing, saying the judge has "broad discretion" to seal documents. Brian Greenspun still retains the services of Joe Alioto, a San Francisco lawyer.
"I can't give any detail because attorney client privilege is involved, but basically a...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Water rates going up?.
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 160
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 259
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 406
Good morning, everyone. As we all eagerly await the outcome of The “Great” Newspaper War, a column based on a lie remains posted on the “newspaper” site. The piece, which I will not link to so as to spare you, was a stenographic pickup of a false right-wing...
Coming on the heels of that bizarre Vegas PBS outing, Sen. Dean Heller submitted to a withering interrogation in DC by Northern Nevada icon Sam Shad.
Some of it is just amazing. ("Do you trust President Putin?" Spoiler alert: He doesn't.)
More lowlights:
Shad: “War on Republicans, the Libertarian side of the party versus the moderate side of the party. How is this going to affect future of the party and where do you stand?”
Heller: “Well obviously it has had impact. We saw during the last...