by Jon Ralston Sat, 01/19/2013 - 10:26
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RT @NVAFLCIO: Watch Danny Thompson with @RalstonReports on Ralston Live tonight at 5:30!/Good idea! @SenMroberson will be on later in show.
3 hours 19 min ago.
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#RalstonLive in a couple of hrs, tweeps. Any good questions for @SenMRoberson or AFL chief Danny Thompson? Tune in at 5:30 on PBS stations.
4 hours 29 min ago.
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Friend w/this comparison: @sendebbiesmith, just off brain surgery, FaceTimes into presser; @VoteFiore, w/upset tummy, can't make vote.
4 hours 33 min ago.
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"This is a BFD, governor." t.co/zNHzgcfIhx
4 hours 59 min ago.
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Happiness and tears from school district lobbyists. t.co/k9S7lif0fW
5 hours 2 min ago.
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Bill signed. t.co/HzRGZuZzeP
5 hours 5 min ago.
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Gov says "this will have a generational impact...really proud of the leadership... Senator Smith, this is your moment as much as anyone's."
5 hours 6 min ago.
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I count 24 lawmakers. May have missed one or two.
5 hours 7 min ago.
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Gov citing stats of portables, schools in need of repair. Says 32 skls in Clark could be built today and immediately at capacity. Crazy.
5 hours 8 min ago.
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Gov. gives props to Dems and GOP. "It took courage to get here."
5 hours 10 min ago.
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Looks as if half the Legislature is here. Luckily they are not covered by the Open Meeting Law.
5 hours 12 min ago.
From the red part of this blue state comes word from one of the counties that the administration's gun proposals, should they become law, will not be welcome.
Humboldt County Sheriff Ed Kilgore first accuses the administration of exploiting the Newtown tragedy, calling the unveiling of the package in such close proximity to the slayings "insulting and absurd."
And then more (I have attached the full letter here):
"The Second Amendment is truly what Americans believe is the layer of security between them and government oppression."
Kilgore says the proposed legislation "infringes on the rights of every American," that any gun laws should be handled by the Legislature and then the coup de grace: Kilgore says that although he understands the high court would have the final say, he informs the vice president he will "use my discretion and not enforce any new gun laws that may appear unconstitutional....You are on notice that my consitutents and I will not assist in this attempt to strip previously given Constitutional rights away."
(For those of you who don't know, Humboldt is in the northern part of the state, bordering Idaho and Oregon. It has about 17,000 people. Voter registration: 3,225 Republicans; 1,397 Democrats)
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