Butch Cassidy’s Rules for a Knife Fight
Rules? We don’t need no stinkin’ rules. The Nevada GOP Central Committee will meet June 18 to not only elect a new chairman to replace Mark Amodei, who filed for the 2nd Congressional District special election this morning, but select their white knight to lead them to victory in that special election in September. Problem […]
Watch Dan Klaich Pull a Rabbit out of His Hat
University Chancellor Dan Klaich has been whining about budget cuts incessantly throughout this entire legislative session. If you listen to him – but why would you? – there just isn’t a dime to spare in the university budget. Mother Hubbard’s cupboard is bare. You can’t get blood from a stone. But a funny thing happened […]
Liars Figure
Las Vegas Sun reporter David Schwartz exposes yet another budget lie being promulgated by Sen. Horsford and the Left; the notion that if the governor’s budget is approved, Clark County would have to lay off 1,800 teachers. Au contraire, mon frere. First, not a single teacher need be laid off if the greedy teachers union […]
Assembly Republicans: With Us or Against Us?
As Citizen Outreach continues robo-calls this week to Republicans in the Assembly who continue to negotiate an extension of the 2009 tax hikes which are scheduled to sunset at the end of June, some of them continue to whine privately that they are NOT for such an extension. The problem is, they haven’t been willing […]
RAN’s Run-Around could Cost Nevada Jobs
“The Retail Association of Nevada (RAN) proposed an amendment to Senate Bill 34,” to force e-commerce companies to collect and remit Nevada sales taxes on online purchases, reports Ben Spillman of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “But a lobbyist for Amazon.com warned the move might force the company to pull its work force out of Nevada, […]
A Reprehensible Commercial
The Nevada State Education Association (NSEA) television commercial that aired last week features a young boy saying into the camera, “Governor Sandoval, why are you destroying our schools?” To which public school teacher and author Jim Blockey writes: “This is a child that may or may not be competent to tie his shoes accusing the […]
Horsford in Wonderland
To give you an idea of just how desperate Democrat Senate Minority Leader Steven Horsford is getting as the sands through the legislative hour-glass continue to fall, get a load of this tweet from him last week: “The Governor’s budget, with its deep cuts, is not fiscally conservative. The Margin Tax is a responsible solution, […]
Nevada Straw Poll
Nevada’s GOP Central Committee members – or as Sharron Angle calls them, lackeys – will meet on June 18 in Reno to choose the Republican candidate for the Second Congressional District race for the September 13 special election. If that decision is based on who is most likely to actually win the race, Angle is […]
Sharron Angle Against the World
If you ever wondered why Sharron Angle has almost NEVER won a Republican primary race with more than half of the GOP votes – including her “win” in the U.S. Senate primary last year – the email solicitation she sent out Sunday morning will tell you all you need to know.
Goicoechea: French for “Surrender”
Fellow conservatives, enough is enough. We’re literally in a political war with the Left over Nevada’s budget. Alas, Republicans in the Assembly are being led by a guy who’s leading the charge waving a white flag. It’s been rather frustrating, but kinda cute, watching over-his-head Republican Assembly Minority Leader Pete “Tax My Meat” Goicoechea try […]
Deregulating the Wrecked Car Business
I am, without doubt, a veritable hawk on the tax hike issue. Not because no-new-taxes is a governing philosophy or political ideology, but because it’s a means to an end – that end being strictly limited government, which is only possible if you choke off the government’s money supply. Indeed, there is once again a […]
Who’s to Blame if Legislature Goes into O/T?
The people of the state of Nevada twice approved a ballot measure requiring the Nevada Legislature to do its business within 120 days every other year. It’s not a secret. Everyone knows about it. Including Democrat leaders. In addition, Gov. Brian Sandoval said “no new taxes” as a candidate, ran on it, and was elected […]
The Ruvo Room is Back!
A former Carson City denizen informs me that the brass “Larry Ruvo” lettering above the entrance to the auxiliary building next door to the Governor’s Mansion that former Gov. Jim Gibbons had painted over four years ago has had the paint stripped off and Mr. Ruvo’s name is prominently displayed once again. Ruvo’s name was […]
The CD-2 Circus
Nevada Republicans have two big worries regarding the upcoming September 13 special election to fill the Congressional District 2 vacancy created by the appointment of Dean Heller to fill the U.S. Senate vacancy created by John “Pants on the Ground” Ensign: (1) That a split GOP field of candidates could throw the GOP-majority seat to […]
How B&M Retailers can Compete with e-Commerce
Some of my friends in the brick-and-mortar retail industry are complaining about my opposition to their efforts to tax your online purchases. They say that with the requirement to collect and remit in-state sales taxes on purchases, they can’t compete with online operations out-of-state that do not have to collect and remit sales taxes. “If […]
The Babysitter Tax
Our man in Carson City, Dan Burdish, is looking deeper and deeper into the Democrats’ proposed tax on services, and the deeper he looks the more it smells. “The bill requires any ‘Service provider’ – any person engaged in a business that provides any ‘taxable services’ – to sign up and pay a $5 fee […]
End of Days: Taxes & 2011 Legislature
Ray Hagar of the Reno Gazette-Journal takes a look at the final days of the regular season for the 2011 Nevada Legislature and the budget road blocks that may send it into overtime, including these Muth’s Truths about potential tax hike votes from Republicans: Chuck Muth, a conservative pundit and blogger from Las Vegas, is […]