Mini-Muth’s Truths: February 14, 2011
As you probably saw yesterday, March’s First Friday Happy Hour will feature our first-ever First Friday Candidate Forum featuring all six of the top mayoral candidates: Carolyn Goodman, Chris Giunchigliani, Larry Brown, Victor Chaltiel, George Harris and Steve Ross. And as predicted, one of the candidates who was not invited to participate has his nose […]
Nevada could be daunting test for Romney
Matt Viser of the Boston Globe was in Las Vegas last week and filed a story on next year’s presidential caucus in Nevada and Mitt Romney’s prospects. The article includes these choice Muth’s Truths: ‘‘Mitt Romney has a strong Mormon base of support in Nevada that will continue,’’ said Chuck Muth, a conservative activist who […]
CPAC 2012: The Ever-Ready Bunny of Conservative Conferences…on Steroids
The 38th annual CPAC – the Conservative Political Action Conference – was the event’s largest and best…ever. Over 11,000 attendees, and lots and lots of young people. The movement is strong and growing…and one big reason is Ron Paul. They say the world belongs to those who show up, and Ron Paul’s supporters showed up. […]
Tammy Bruce is Out; I’m In
Lots of controversy at this year’s CPAC over the inclusion of a gay conservative group as one of the event’s sponsors. I’m not only with Allen West, Ann Coulter, Andrew Breitbart, Grover Norquist, Sarah Palin and Sharron Angle that GOProud should absolutely be allowed to participate, they even invited me to join their national Advisory […]
Mini-Muth’s Truths: February 11, 2011
So I’m driving to CPAC yesterday down Connecticut Avenue and there’s an accident. Traffic comes to a complete standstill. So I decide not to waste downtime that can’t be avoided and called Dan Burdish, our CEO, to find out what the Nevada Legislature was up to in my absence. When suddenly a big, burly DC […]
Report from 2011 “Conservative Woodstock”
While Sen. Jim DeMint and the Heritage Foundation are boycotting this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) because out of over 100 vendors with booths, one of them happens to be an organization of gay conservatives: GOProud. On the other hand, two of the highest profile social-conservative women, Sarah Palin and Sharron Angle, both said […]
Rhoads Feels Heat, Sees Light
The LVRJ reports the Sen. Dean Rhoads (R-Elko) now says “he supports Gov. Brian Sandoval’s plan to balance the state budget with no new taxes after meeting with him Wednesday afternoon.” That’s a complete reversal from what he said a week ago, when he insisted that tax and fee increases were absolutely necessary. “Since his […]
Fool Hardy’s Tax on Charities
Citizen Outreach CEO Dan Burdish, who is permanently detailed to the Carson City Legislature for the duration of the 2011 session, found an interesting tidbit this morning. “Thirty bills have been introduced that raise taxes/fees,” he reports. “All but two have been introduced by Committees. Sens. Joe Hardy and Mark Manendo are the only two […]
Mini-Muth’s Truths: February 9, 2011
Tried getting through airport security for the first time on my way to DC last night for the annual CPAC conference with my newly-purchased, official Penn & Teller metal “Bill of Rights” card in my pocket. I can now attest, with metaphysical certitude, that the Bill of Rights will set off warning bells with the […]
Raising a Banner of Pale Pastels
Nevada Senate Democrats yesterday breathlessly announced their priorities for the 2011 legislative session. Don’t get excited; there’s not much there to hang your hat on, but read this entire column all the way through for a surprise, though not happy, ending.
Sandoval’s Plan is PLAN’s Plan
Leading the charge for raising taxes instead of cutting spending are those lovely hypocritical socialists over at PLAN – the Progressive Liberal Alliance of Nevada. They’re having a cow over the prospect of Nevada’s government reducing its over-spending from around $6.4 billion presently to $5.8 billion, as proposed by Gov. Sandoval. That’d be a reduction […]
Nevada: The Chopped Liver Caucus
Molly Ball of Politico takes a look at Nevada’s 2012 presidential caucus and wonders if GOP candidates will be more likely or less likely to compete here than they did in 2008, including these brief Muth’s Truths: Chuck Muth, a Las Vegas-based conservative activist, said nobody expects Nevada to get as much attention as Iowa […]
Words Mean Stuff
As the Nevada Legislature is in full bloom now, conservatives need to make sure the Left doesn’t control the narrative when it comes to facts and figures. For instance, the salary cuts to state employees proposed by Gov. Sandoval isn’t 5 percent; it’s one percent. The other four percent is simply a repeal of the […]
Common Sense Alternative to Red Light Cameras
Common Sense blogger Paul Jacob reports today that there’s a far less intrusive way to make intersections safer than installing Big Brother-like red light camera: making the yellow lights longer, thus giving drivers more time to decide to stop or proceed. Such a change wouldn’t cost anything. Simply reset the timers. But nanny-staters don’t like […]
Goedhart’s Legislative Game Changer
In the frenetic closing minutes of the 2009 legislative session, our elected representatives slipped in a big tax hike on Nevada motorists by jacking up our vehicle registration fees without, apparently, many legislators, let alone the public, knowing about it. That would be far less likely to happen in the future if legislation proposed by […]
Remembering Thomas Paine
February 9th is Thomas Paine’s birthday. In celebration, let’s all recall this little bit of his Revolutionary War wisdom: “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
Steve Hill and the Chamber of Secrets
The news was stunning. My jaw hit the floor. In a recent Las Vegas Sun story headlined “Elite group met secretly to discuss budget, taxes,” it was revealed that one of our own, a man who is supposed to be fighting on behalf of Nevada’s business community was, as they say, “sleeping with the enemy.” […]