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UPDATE: I have attached the PAC's first mail piece here.
You could have predicted this as many forces array to try to defeat North Las Vegas Mayor Shari Buck:
A political action committee, helpfully calling itself The Coalition for Truth in Government, has formed to fund an independent expenditure effort that will benefit Buck's main foe, ex-state Sen. John Lee.
Political consultant David Thomas formed the PAC, and he told me Monday he has his first mailer ready to go. So who's funding it?...
When I hear lawmakers tell me they support a bill “in concept,” for some reason, I hear, “I hate this bill and will do everything I can to kill it.”
Perhaps something got lost in the translation. But when I asked three members of the state Senate Legislative, Operations and Elections whether they back Secretary of State Ross Miller's transparency bill, which contains provisions only a politicians or lobbyist could hate, their reactions after a hearing Tuesday were echoes.
“I support it in...
Mention the phrase “campaign finance reform,” and the NyQuil lobby gets nervous.
Nothing puts folks to sleep faster than this concept, which is exactly what the elected elite wants and exactly why you should pry your eyes open. And Tuesday in the Legislative Building, where such notions go to die a quiet (usually) death, Secretary of State Ross Miller (again) will try to deliver a wake-up call to the Gang of 63.
Miller, like secretaries of state before him (Dean Heller was noteworthy), have...
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This week:
1. The Weekly Insiders Survey: Great stuff from my gaggle this week, as usual. Was Roberson's move smart or dumb? (They lean dumb.) Will an alternative be crafted to the margins tax? (Not much optimism here.) Will the margins tax pass in 2014? (They all, but one, say no.)
2. The truth about the last constitutional amendment to raise mining taxes: It was mining's bill, Marvin Sedway's cross-of-gold...
In rare testimony before lawmakers 24 years ago and in a mostly forgotten bit of history, Steve Wynn broke with the rest of the gaming industry and vehemently assailed lawmakers for keeping mining tax policy inside the Constitution.
Wynn's testimony, which I have attached here, sparked Circus Circus Chairman Bill Bennett to contradict him in a letter to the Legislature five days later asserting Wynn did not speak for the rest of the Strip. Ah, those were the days....
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In 1989, Acting Gov. Bob Miller fulminated against the mining industry in a way that had rarely been heard in the capital.
“The fact is this: mining does not pay its fair share to the state,” Miller railed in his State of the State speech. “A gold mine that would pay a million dollars in state and local taxes in Nevada pays $8 million in Colorado. And you know, that might be tolerable if the mines were taking a renewable resource from the ground. But they’re not. One day, the ore will be gone...