Monthly archive
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. My column: Control of the Legislature
2. Insider Club Inductee: Anthony DeAngelo
3. State of the Races: A few, minor changes
MY COLUMN: THE KEYS TO CARSON CITY CONTROL
With no presidential or senatorial contests, and with a gubernatorial race in name only, much of the focus for both parties will be on changing the Carson City matrix.
Yes, putting the puzzle pieces together for the down-ticket constitutional offices will take time and resources (...
You may recall that Secretary of State Ross Miller has been taking guff from a GOP-aligned group that clearly wants to stop him -- or at least wound him -- before he becomes attorney general.
There have been mailers and a web site, not to mention some stenographic, unquestioning treatment from the "newspaper." Much of this started when Miller was trying to get a transparency bill through an unfriendly Gang of 63, which eventually gutted and then killed the excellent proposal.
The Republican...
Sen. Dean Heller was adamant about the DREAM Act.
“I believe it is an amnesty program, a back-door amnesty program for the 12 to 15 million people who are here illegally,” Heller declared, apparently not caring or not knowing that the DREAM Act applied to a small subset (hundreds of thousands) of the total undocumented population (those who go to college or are in the military).
In his zeal to brandish the “amnesty” sword, which had proven to be a cutting issue for Republicans, Heller tossed...
One day after he penned a scathing op-ed in Forbes about online gaming, Gondolier Numero Uno Sheldon Adelson called web poker a "cancer" and derided itd description as a game of skill in an interview with Bloomberg News.
The interview, parts of which are embedded below, with Deirdre Bolton, also featured Adelson equating online gambling with the potential legalization of heroin, cocaine and prostitution, saying the arguments for government to make money are similar. The Las Vegas Sands chairman...
Clark County Commissioner Mary Beth Scow is getting started early for her re-election, with a fundraiser next week hosted by the Nevada Resort Association, the lobbying arm of the industry the incumbent oversees.
This is known as the "I'm trying to scare people away" event -- the invite and large host committee are attached here.
Subtle, it ain't. But subtlety has little place in getting anointed.
I'm looking for someone on that list who will not need something from Scow in the coming months...
Full disclosure: I hate Yucca Mountain.
Not the place; the political issue.
Ever since the 1987 Screw Nevada Bill, singling out Nevada as the site for nuclear waste disposal, the public (well, mostly the media) has endured local pols posturing and visiting electeds pandering. It is endless and mindless.
There is no new dump rhetoric. Democrats still wield it occasionally to pummel Republicans, who have been more pro-Yucca than Democrats through the years. But since Barack Obama committed to...