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This is one of those “only in Nevada” stories:
A Democratic candidate who a judge determined is ineligible to run for an Assembly seat because he doesn’t live in the district nevertheless will be awarded the position because his party controls the house and his opponent can’t afford to fight on.
Is this because lawmakers in both parties are totally irresponsible in allowing this to happen with nary a peep, much less a hearing in Carson City on the first day to determine if the candidate in...
Good morning, everyone. Can’t we just coast through the holidays? Do we really need a legislative-executive branch crisis NOW? How long can the “newspaper” ignore this story?
Speaking of papers, the sad degeneration of the Las Vegas Sun since its Pulitzer heyday reaches a nadir this morning with the siteessentially outsourced to the National Finals Rodeo. Ozymandiasquote called for here, dear Flashees. I despair at a supposed newspaper site that is one big ad for the NFR, with literal ads,...
Or words to that effect.
Classic Senate floor speech from Mr. Extemporaneous this morning.
Here's a rush transcript:
MR. REID: RESERVING THE RIGHT TO OBJECT. I'M SORRY. RESERVING
THE RIGHT TO OBJECT, MR. PRESIDENT. I'VE BEEN THINKING HOW BEST
TO DESCRIBE WHAT'S GOING ON HERE ON CAPITOL HILL IN THE LAST
COUPLE OF WEEKS. EVERY MORNING I GET UP, THE FIRST THING I READ
IS THE SPORTS PAGE. I'M DISAPPOINTED IN THE SPORTS PAGE IN "THE
...
It appears that Sen. Dean Heller's office, which has at times shunned other journalists, now has put lil ole me on its "Do Not Call" list.
I have repeatedly tried to get answers to three questions this week from Team Heller, with no response from his chief of staff or top commiunication aides. I suppose Heller & Co. may be petulantly reacting to my post-election evisceration of their ridiculous braggodocio over a 12,000-vote win, as if the senator had some kind of turnout machine. Oh, boo...
Gov. Sunny goes dark: The Sandoval Secrecy proposal is an outrageous abuse of executive branch power
UPDATED BELOW WITH DEMOCRATIC PARTY STATEMENT, 4:46 PM
SECOND UPDATE WITH GOVERNOR'S STATEMENT, 5:44 PM
This is one of those times (there are many) that I wish Bill Raggio were still alive.
The legendary legislative master surely would have been apoplectic at the Sandoval administration’s attempts to keep private what are public agency budget requests – likely illegal, surely tone-deaf and definitely outrageous. I can see Raggio putting his arm around Gov. Not-so-Sunny, smiling and telling him...
Good morning, everyone. Just a quick Flash today as I am giving an early-morning speech to Hispanics in Politics. Don’t tell them, but my topic is: “Asians. The new dominant minority.”
Speaking of Hispanics, some group called “The New America organization” (get it, there’s a new America!) is holding a presser today to demand the Legislature pass a driver’s privilege card bill. This conservative group is making this demand the lawmakers do this one day after lawmakers said they would do this....
Good morning, everyone. The Legislature is still two months away, but it is getting harder and harder to contain my anticipation for the first time in----decades. So many interesting dynamics, confirmed by the disclosure Monday of most of the Assembly committee chairs. The uneasy Marilyn Kirkpatrick-William Horne alliance. The Lucy Flores snub. The new committee chairs. The state Senate is almost always less interesting than the Assembly. And even with the Mo Denis-Debbie Smith-Barbara...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Caesars exec Jan Jones.
DAYS SINCE HARRY REID HAS BEEN ON RALSTON REPORTS: 683
DAYS UNTIL THE NEVADA LEGISLATURE CONVENES: 61
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 235
Good morning, everyone. Going over the fiscal cliff can’t possibly be as much agony as putting up the Christmas lights, as I did Sunday (aging promises what Clubber Lang once promised Rocky Balboa: Pain). The aches were assuaged...