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Who will lead the state Senate Democrats in 2015?
Debbie Smith
24% (52 votes)
Mo Denis
22% (46 votes)
Aaron Ford
16% (35 votes)
Tick Segerblom
14% (30 votes)
Someone else
9% (20 votes)
Ruben Kihuen
4% (9 votes)
Kelvin Atkinson
4% (9 votes)
Justin Jones
3% (8 votes)
Total votes: 209
The teachers union is going up with two spots to promote The Education Initiative.
They begin Tuesday. The buy is about $700,000, I'm reliably told.
And they could make this very, very interesting. (I love how they use that controversial UNLV study to make their case. Now about how TEI will affect only the "largest corporations." Um....)
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. The election by the numbers
2. The Weekly Insiders on ads, outcomes and more
3. Smartest/dumbest moves, coming campaign developments
Apropos of my analysis of numbers this week, here’s a comment from one of my insiders to think about:
The numbers in the SOS race are concerning for Marshall who seemed to be ahead. It's a sign that there's a real chance Republicans sweep the statewide seats - especially without a major Democratic turnout in Clark County...
When Steve Hill, the state's economic development czar, picked up the phone a year ago, Ryan Mulvenon, an energy policy staffer for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was on the line.
“Diarmuid O'Connell (vice president of business development) is going to be calling you because Tesla is interested in putting a manufacturing plant in the Western United States, and they’re considering Nevada,” Mulvenon told Hill, as the latter recalled it recently. (Reid's office confirmed the conversation, and...
The Las Vegas Review-Journal is now officially part of the Coalition to Defeat Question 3.
In a stunning move this morning, the RJ has a house ad dedicated to opposing The Education Initiative. I initially thought the ad, which you can see below, was from the foes' media campaign. But in tiny print you need a magnifying glass to see, right below the ad, it says:
"A message from the Las Vegas Review-Journal."
My God.
I'm sure this will be disclosed in all news stories from now on, right?
How...
A new Adam Laxalt spot in the AG's race describes his devastating law firm evaluation as "stolen" and "illegally leaked" and all but accuses Secretary of State Ross Miller of being behind the putative theft.
The ad, which could be pretty effective, comes on the heels of a state Democratic Party ad that mentions the evaluation.
I'm surprised those documents are blurred out in the ad. I wonder why.
The spot calls the law firm evaluation a "desperate attempt to destroy Adam Laxalt," as if the...
The Las Vegas Review-Journal poll suggests state Sen. Mark Hutchison is crushing Assemblywoman Lucy Flores among Hispanics, that Republican candidates are destroying Democrats in Las Vegas, where Democrats have a 14 percentage point edge and that GOP state Sen. Barbara Cegavske is getting 42 percent of the African-American vote.
In other words, it makes no sense.
That doesn't mean Hutchison is behind -- he almost surely isn't. Or that Cegavske isn't running close to Treasurer Kate Marshall --...