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Welcome to The Weekly Report.
This week:
1. My musings with a week left
2. Sandoval’s vetoes cometh, including (in all likelihood) the gun bill
3. Sandoval gets high marks as The Invisible Man who won the session and won’t have a serious opponent
4. Gaming speaks softly but gets big wins
5. Lots of good observations from the smartest folks in Carson City
With the state drink and state dog entombed, what’s left to do?
Not much, besides determining just how many vetoes Gov. Brian Sandoval will...
The Nevada Republican Party early Saturday morning added to the chorus of dissenters to state Sen. Justin Jonss' background checks bill.
This has become a partisan issue in Carson City, as it did in DC, with several groups sending out breathless alerts and posting apocalyptic messages.
The state GOP arguing folks "need to ask you to take some action this weekend to honor the sacrifices our fallen service members made to defend our rights, including the right to keep and bear arms."
And this:...
UPDATE: This came out shortly after the original-- whoops:
From: Edsontiger@aol.com
Date: May 24, 2013, 4:00:08 PM PDT
To: Edsontiger@aol.com
Subject: SB 221 correction
After consultation and responses to the email that I just sent out about SB 221, it was pointed out that several of the claims I made may not be true.
EXEMPTIONS AND AMMENDMENTS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN INTO THE BILL ALLOWING FOR TRANSFER OF A FIREARM UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCE,
Exemptions for several...
As Senate Democrats entombed a sex-ed bill Friday that every Assembly Democrat voted for last month, their explanation to angry progressives seemed to be:
“Don’t criticize us for this. We voted for putting gay marriage in the Constitution. Isn’t that enough for you people?”
Even though efforts are ongoing to try to plug parts of the bill into another before midnight (Update: They are now trying to get it into a money bill the final week.), Assemblyman David Bobzien, the prime sponsor, told...
On Deadline Day in the capital, lawmakers burned up Twitter congratulating themselves for their bills passing and thanking colleagues for their support.
Strangely, none of them tweeted about a campaign finance transparency bill, watered-down weeks ago in the Senate and shredded Friday in the Assembly with an amendment (agreed to on a voice vote by all) that is designed to accomplish one thing: Keep the lobbyist/special interest favor train chugging along.
It was nothing short of grotesque to...
Legislators want to be able to take gifts from special interests and lobbyists and then hide them, according to an amendment to an already gutted campaign transparency bill.
Yes, you read that right.
The amendment mysteriously is not on the legislative web site, but I have obtained it ( put in by Assembly panel on Friday) and attached the relevant parts here.
The language carves out a section for state lawmakers to allow them to attend events to which all members of the Gang of 63 are invited...