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This week:
1. Is the Nevada Senate race a dead heat?
2. Switch switches back in to NV Energy: What does it mean?
3. Who will be most potent in Nevada in Campaign ’16: Reid, Adelson, Sandoval or Hillary?
4. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week
5. A blast from the past in CD4: A Horsford campaign memo to remember
Summer doldrums? What summer doldrums?
Lots of inside stuff to share with you, dear premium subscribers, including how my insiders feel about that...
The Realtors PAC is starting its campaign season early, going after Democratic Assemblywoman Ellen Spiegel and Republican Glenn Trowbridge for voting against an HOA measure.
The mail pieces, which you can see below, refer to AB 359, which the Realtors considered an assault on homeowner rights and gave associations too much power with so-called super-priority liens. Getting rid of an HOA's right to extinguish a first mortgage was a big deal for the group.
The pieces are pretty brutal, even...
The U.S. Senate race in Nevada is a dead heat while every Republican candidate would lose today to Hillary Clinton in Nevada, according to a poll conducted by a Democratic-leaning pollster for a Democratic SuperPAC.
The numbers for the Senate Majority PAC actually make sense despite what some will criticize as the source, especially because the partisan breakdown is reasonable (the pollster used the actual 39-34, D-R split, although performance usually favors the GOP to cut into that edge) and...
UPDATE, 7 AM, 7/16/15: I added Rep. Cresent Hardy's report below. he has much more on hand than any of the Democrats, and his advantage is likley to be quite large by June 2016 after the internecine carnage to come.
Susie Lee is the decisive winner so far, with $100,000 more than Ruben Kihuen and $200,000 more than Lucy Flores. (John Oceguera announced after the deadline.)
I will post all of the FEC reports here as they come in.
Kihuen Fecq22015 Draft (1) by Jon Ralston
Lee by Jon Ralston...
Many political observers believe the Democrats have an excellent chance to recapture the lower house in 2016 because of so many likely GOP one-termers.
But if the examples below of initial fundraising pitches are any indication, their creativy quotient is going to be quite low. See if you can spot ANY differences. Any?
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. An exclusive complaint you may not have seen
2. The early look at Cortez Masto-Heck
3. The early look at CD3
4. The early look at CD4
5. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week
My insiders agree with me that the Senate race is a toss-up or close to one; some think Susie Lee could beat Michael Roberson in CD3 (I think she’s in too deep in CD4 to switch), and several mentioned her impressive fundraising totals as making her an immediate factor; no one...
Former Lt. Gov. Lorraine Hunt-Bono, former state Sen. Sue Lowden and former state Treasurer Patty Cafferata, along with the Kiss of Death Caucus from the Legislature, are hosting an event July 18 for Carly Fiorina's presidential campaign.
The event's co-hosts include Assemblywomen Michele Fiore, Vicki Dooling, Shelly Shelton and Victoria Seaman, a quartet of lawmakers that managed to do little more than introduce controversial and unconstitutional bills that went nowhere. Why Fiorina, the ex-HP...
Marco Rubio wants Sheldon Adelson's money -- what GOP presidential hopeful wouldn't? -- but he also has to live with a history of opposing gaming expansion in Florida.
This issue surfaced again Thursday when The Washington Post published a piece on Rubio's signing on to the Adelson-backed online gaming ban, and included this: "In the past, Rubio has been highly critical of the gaming industry in Las Vegas....In 2011, again opposing more gambling in south Florida, he pointed to maladies in...
A group of Nevada businesses, including slot bar giant Dotty's and Tilman Fertitta (whose family hates Dotty's), has sued Gov. Brian Sandoval, asking that the minimum wage amendment to the state Constitution be thrown out.
The complaint from these strange bedfellows, which is below, asserts that the amendment, which raised the minimum wage to $8.25 for businesses that don't pay health care benefits and $7.25 for those that do, was passed twice with nearly 70 percent of the vote in 2004 and 2006...