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Amid headlines about NV Energy's bombshell, sports betting kiosks and, of course, pot, largely unnoticed were two interesting Senate Joint Resolutions passed this week with the votes of the most conservative members of the GOP caucus.
First piece of evidence is SJR 5, which urges Congress to pass The Marketplace Fairness Act, which has to do with Internet sales tax collections and is considered by some lawmakers to be a state budget booster worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The act...
With racial politics thick in the air, the Culinary union has endorsed a longtime police union lobbyist to replace expelled Assemblyman Steven Brooks in the Legislature.
In a letter to commissoners (pasted below), Culinary Political Director Yvanna Cancela informs the board that the labor organization is behind Michelle Jotz, who recently left the Police Protective Association, where she had been for seven years and was director of governmental affairs. She now works in Metro Internal Affairs....
No kidding!
Those are the findings of TRIP, which will be releasing the data this morning in Carson City.
I have advanced copies of the releases and the report, attached here.
That's the gist of an opinion I have obtained that the attorney general signed last week.
It tells the state taxation department it does not have the authority to open collective bargaining agreements, and it also says if the tax department is forced to raise city property taxes in an emergency, the usual abatements do not apply.
Welcome to North Las Vegas, Mayor John Lee.
The opinion is attached here.
Not since 2003, when a governor sued the Legislature, has there been such a sizzling separation of powers debate percolating in Carson City, one that could determine myriad political and policy fates.
None of this may ever get to court – I continue to believe it is unlikely Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson could ever get majority support for a margins tax alternative. But if it does end up across the way from the Legislative Building, the Gang of 62 should be careful what it wishes for...
That's the gist of a new legislative legal opinion that mining taxman Michael Roberson obtained shortly after news broke of executive branch analysis that could block an alternative to the margins tax from the ballot.
It's all about the power of the Legislature to do what it wants.
There is a real separation of powers battle brewing this session, unlike any we have seen before.
The opinion is attached.