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Good morning, everyone. Bad day for triskaidekaphobics, but a good day for those of us looking to the weekend to recover from the election. Yes, pundits even need to recover from elections with few surprises. May everyone have good luck today despite the date.
On a comic notes to end the week, the state GOP, which was an agent of the Sue Lowden campaign and merged with the serial failures at Citizen Outhouse, posted and sent out a missive by Chairman Michael McDonald calling for unity. In the...
Good morning, everyone. As Kevin McCarthy seems poised to replace House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, anyone remember the last time he was in Vegas? I do. He was on the same event with a special guest who also is Nevada’s most notorious birther, the solipsistic Wayne Allyn Root, who says the president was a foreign exchange student, among other conspiracy theories. I wrote about it, “The Beginning of a Great Tradition.” Guess where it took place?
On a lighter, albeit annoying note, how many of...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: A losing med pot applicant; election post-mortem.
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 146
Good morning, everyone. In the cold, painful light of the morningafter, it still looks the same: After all the Sturm und Drang from a vocal minority of Republicans, a subset of the same hectoring, one-dimensional incompetents we have heard for years, the Establishment won. Smashingly. No, this was not the rebels vs. The Empire. This was a bunch of...
Good morning, everyone. I appeared on “All in With Chris Hayes”on Monday and talked about, among other things, the enabling of militia types and others by irresponsible politicians such as Sen. Dean Heller and Assemblywoman Michele Fiore. No, I don’t blame them for what happened over the weekend. But people such as the Millers get sustenance from being called “patriots” and being patted on the back by the likes of Fiore, who had the unmitigated gall to send out a missive Monday attempting to...
Good morning, everyone. I was up North for the weekend, so I only read about this awful story from afar. The deaths of two police officers with families are horrific, and the insistence by every politician and candidate to weigh in with their heartfelt public condolences simply adds to the tragedy. No one cares what most of these people think, putting out rote statements on Twitter so everyone can see---they care. Sure, the governor and the mayor, perhaps, should say something. But how about...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Rep. Dina Titus.
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 4
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 151
Good morning, everyone. I hope you have all seen my collection of Bob Faiss tributes, including a beautifully apt one from Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett from a foreword he wrote to the gaming attorney’s seminal gaming law book when it was translated into Japanese. I gave some of my thoughts last...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 5
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 152
Good morning, everyone. Still rocked by the news of Bob Faiss’ death, dear Flashees. I met him shortly after I started covering politics almost three decades ago. He was unfailingly kind to me, and we became very friendly over the years. He was one of a handful of people I consulted when I first started...
Good morning, everyone. Do you watch “Veep,” dear Flashees? The show is always funny and occasionally hilarious, with many DC types saying it is the most accurate portrayal of life in the capital. So many great supporting characters and a brilliant characterization of an ambitious but deeply flawed vice president by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. But this week we found that the show is – it hurts to say this – anti-Nevada!
Two things happened on this week’s episode, both of them unforgivsble. First, a...
Good morning, everyone. One week until the madness ends. One week. Thank God. No more robocalls – did you get the one from Herman Cain for Niger Innis? (Is this helpful?) No more ridiculous ads – Sue Lowden is finishing on a positive note with a “I love Nevada” spot (when people in heated races finish positive, sometimes it’s a white flag or a sign the candidate knows his or her negatives are soaring). No more mailers with outlandish claims – unless they are from my HOA, of course!
The...
Good morning, everyone. It’s pretty hard not to be impressed with how successful the Culinary union was in settling with all of those downtown casinos, the culmination of a public relations campaign of relentless pressure and saber-rattling. Talk about a well-executed campaign that used brinkmanship to achieve a goal. Definitely the best campaign of the season so far – a low bar to get over this year, but still quite something. And now the real political question: Will the union turn its...