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UPDATED, 7:20 AM: I have attached the GOP release here. Also, let's not forget that even putting an alternative on the ballot may not be legal. ---- On the day marking the two-thirds point of Session '13, state Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson and five of his GOP colleagues plan to unveil a $600 million a biennium net proceeds tax on mines, sources confirmed. The so-called Education Priority Initiative from the folks I have affectionately dubbed the Dirty Half-Dozen would be promoted as...
    UPDATE, 4:45 PM: I just got off the phone with Sharron Angle. She confirmed that the new PAC will be active this cycle, and it already has its first event planned, with sessions on lobbying, the Constitution, immigration and....election integrity. " The latter is her new hobbyhorse, and that section is called: "Protecting against Election Corruption" The others: "Applying the Constitution to influence elected officials" "Citizenship and green cards for the undocumented (what's legal now) in...
During Monday night’s stirring Senate floor debate, I couldn’t help but think of Steven. Steven is my brother.  Steven is the most wonderful, loving person I know. He has two incandescent children and a perfectly matched life partner. Steven also happens to be gay. And as senator after senator rose last night, as if they were feeding off each other’s energy and humanity, to support repealing the state’s gay marriage law, I thought of Steven. I hope I would feel the way I do even if my brother...
Or at least his campaign does. The Brian Sandoval for Re-Election campaign continues to buzz along in the background during the legislative session, sending another missive today to supporters. This one shows that some of those folks have been reading up on how the Democrats, most notably OFA, were way ahead of the GOP in voter contact, social media, etc. How do I know? This is how I know. Team Sandova; clearly is determined to have a sophisticated, populated data base by the time his campaign...
  Welcome to The Weekly Report. This week: 1. The Segerblom agenda: Does it have a chance? Does it help or hurt the Democrats?  2. The admissions tax cometh: Will it pass? 3. Rising and falling legislators 4. School choice: Does it have a chance? 5. Session trends This week's questions for my Weekly Insiders: 1. What percentage of the bills Tick Segerblom is pushing will pass and not be vetoed? 2. Will the coming admissions tax pass?   3. Name a legislator you think is headed for a fall (...
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Saturday raised the specter of “radical Islam” and homegrown terrorism in the wake of the Boston attacks, but repeatedly warned against “jumping to conclusions” because “we don’t know why they did what they did.” Calling the Tsarnaev brothers “killers” (not “alleged” ones) and despite repeatedly urging caution in determining their motives, Rubio, in Las Vegas, repeatedly alluded to homegrown terrorists radicalized by foreign groups. “One of the things that...

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