“Thug” Responds to Disgraced Former Lyon County Sheriff
“If exposing public corruption like this makes me a thug, I wear the label with pride.”
Legal Brothel Foe Guinasso in Hot Water…AGAIN
At least the political gang-banging Pig Pen with the explosive temper didn’t head-butt anybody this time!
Investigation Called for in Guinasso/McNeil Brothel Scandal
(Chuck Muth) – As noted in a pair of columns this past week (here and here), I recently discovered that a Reno lawyer and the former Lyon County (NV) sheriff secretly conspired to pass a 2018 ballot question to shut down the four legal brothels in Lyon County and hid the fact that the sheriff […]
Hidden Video Surfaces in Growing “Guinasso-gate” Brothel Scandal
(Chuck Muth) – Jason Guinasso is the individual who spearheaded efforts to ban legal brothels in Lyon and Nye counties last year and served as the group’s legal adviser. He also formed and registered a political action committee – End Trafficking and Prostitution (ETAP PAC) – with the Secretary of State for that purpose. […]
Remembering “Uncle Mark”
Nevada University Regent Mark Alden passed away on January 17, 2019 after battling cancer for several years. He was my friend and my daughter Jenna’s godfather. And he’s missed. I met Mark in 1994. Was introduced to him by former Nevada Lt. Gov. Lonnie Hammargren at a Republican Men’s Club meeting at the old Hacienda […]
EXCLUSIVE: Lyon County Anti-Brothel Initiative Secretly Bankrolled by Elected Official
(Chuck Muth) – On January 15th every candidate and political action committee (PAC) in Nevada was required to file an annual Campaign and Expense (C&E) report with the Nevada Secretary of State. Shockingly, the report filed by the End Trafficking and Prostitution (ETAP) PAC revealed, for the first time, what appears to have been an […]
7 Ways for Nevada Republicans to Get Their MoJo Back: Part VII
(Chuck Muth) – So why do Republican candidates continue to lose so many winnable races? Here are two main reasons… Inexperienced candidates who run DIY (“do it yourself”) campaigns with no formal campaign training or bad campaign training Inexperienced candidates who hire campaign consultants who themselves have received no formal campaign training or bad campaign […]
7 Ways for Nevada Republicans to Get Their MoJo Back: Part VI
(Chuck Muth) – Close elections are decided by “undecided” voters who make up their minds two to three weeks before Election Day. And you can’t reach all those voters in that short window of time by walking door-to-door. You need to reach them via paid media: mail, digital advertising, phone, radio and TV ads. The […]
What Nevada’s Anti-Brothel Activists Can Learn from Star Trek
(Chuck Muth) – Remember the 1982 movie “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan”? Khan Noonien Singh was the evil bad guy who sent a pair of assassins to knock off his longtime nemesis, Captain Kirk. Alas, the hitmen failed – which Khan realized when Kirk, instead of one of his assassins, responded to Khan’s radio […]
7 Ways for Nevada Republicans to Get Their MoJo Back: Part V
(Chuck Muth) – There’s an old saying Nevada Republicans need to keep in mind going into the 2020 election cycle: “Vote early, vote often.” First, I don’t like early voting. Never have from a conservative candidate perspective. It benefits incumbents and wealthy candidates who can afford the extra two weeks’ worth of campaign advertising. But […]
7 Ways for Nevada Republicans to Get Their MoJo Back: Part IV
(Chuck Muth) – The biggest mistake Republican candidates and their high-paid professional political consultants make is thinking they’re running a political campaign. They’re not. They’re running a MARKETING campaign. And most do it very badly. So let’s jump into #4 of my seven ways for Nevada Republicans to get their mojo back: Messaging. Now here’s […]
7 Ways for Nevada Republicans to Get Their MoJo Back: Part III
(Chuck Muth) – OK, before we get to “Messaging” – #4 on my list of seven things Nevada Republicans need to do to get their mojo back for the 2020 campaign cycle – I need to further comment on #3: The Messengers. Now, conventional wisdom – propagated by many high-priced consultants, liberal pundits and egghead […]
7 Ways for Nevada Republicans to Get Their MoJo Back: Part II
(Chuck Muth) – Continuing now with Part II of my post-mortem series on how Nevada Republicans blew the 2018 elections and what they need to do to get their mojo back in time for the 2020 presidential election (click here to read Part I). But first, a little more on this whole voter registration thing… […]
How Big Pharma is Ripping You Off…Even If You Don’t Pay for Your Own Prescription Drugs
(Chuck Muth) – They say everyone talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. Well, the same can be said about the skyrocketing cost of certain brand-name prescription drugs. Everyone has heard about ginormous price spikes over recent years – most famously Martin “Pharma Bro’” Shkreli’s obscene increase in the cost of Daraprim […]
Journalism Ethics Sheriff Busted for Breaking Own Rule
Among those in the Nevada journalism biz, a kinda joke has developed over what is sarcastically referred to as “The E!! Doctrine.” In a blog post titled “The Ethics of Crediting” back in March 2017, Elizabeth “E!!” Thompson – an editor for the Nevada Independent news blog – gripes about reporters and media outlets allegedly […]
Giant Legal Turd Tossed in Hof Appointment Punch Bowl
(Chuck Muth) – A lawsuit was filed this week in the Nye County Fifth Judicial District Court seeking to block the current members of the Nye County Commission from appointing someone to fill the term of office for Assemblyman Dennis Hof (R-District 36) Hof passed away three weeks before Election Day, when he nevertheless won […]
Extending the Ocasio-Cortez/Tucker Carlson Alliance
Who would have ever guessed that Fox News host Tucker Carlson and rising Democrat star New York Democratic Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — two of the most polarizing political figures in America — would work together to unite the political ring? Certainly not me, but thanks to their recent efforts, it is becoming likely that Republicans and Democrats — while continuing to butt heads […]