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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he is "terribly disappointed" in Nevada's brief backing a constitutional gay marriage ban filed Wednesday with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
"I think that...we're in a new era and Nevada should become modern like the rest of the country," Reid told KSNV's Kelsey Thomas.
When she followed up and asked if there should be a federal law supporting gay marriage, the majority leader replied: "The answer, of course, is yes, but that's not going to...
Chancellor Dan Klaich's memo is attached with his "unqualified recommendation" to the regents for Don Snyder over Carol Harter.
Designed to give the party's imprimatur to favored candidates (many of whom will have less chance of winning the general election) and sure to further estrange the Nevada GOP from its elected leaders, next month the faithful will have the opportunity to endorse candidates in the primary.
The process outlined in a memo I have obtained indicates that the same folks who have insulted the RNC and been taken over by Ron Paul acolytes will now be able to choose their primary favorites, giving the...
The progressives already are fuming on Twitter.
I'm sure this will be a huge issue in the governor's race. Wait....
The brief is posted here.
UPDATE, 2 PM:
I chatted with Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto about this, wondering how this was different than her refusal to side with the state in suing the feds over Obamacare and whether Gov. Brian Sandoval, the client who was sued, could have declined to file a brief.
The attorney general drew a distinction between affirmatively suing over...
Yes, Joe Lombardo, the half-million-dollar man, has to be considered the favorite to succeed Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie.
Or is he?
As I perused a brochure for his fellow Gillespie administration colleague, Larry Burns, this week, I wondered whether this could be a fascinacting matchup between insiders. (Dissident former Gillespieite Ted Moody will only be a factor if he continues to pour money into the contest.)
Here's what I find interesting and the brochure illuminates:
►He claims to...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. Which companies gave the most last year? I did the spadework, and you can see what I found. Billy Walters is in the Top 10 again.
2. Some C & E notes: Sandoval’s millions (guess how much Walters bundled?), the state Senate race money and some registration notes and some other nuggets.
3. The Weekly insiders on C & E surprises
4. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week
5. TWI on the AG’s race and GOP primary in CD4
This week’s questions for The...
Toward the end of a special session in 2002, as the trial lawyers and their legislative advocates prepared to succumb to political realities and accept a tort reform compromise they abhorred, the chairman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee could not hold back his tears.
Bernie Anderson looked at Speaker Barbara Buckley and told her something like, “Madame speaker. I’m with you. I’ll be with you. But I just have to say this. For the sake of politics, we’re going to hurt real people here.”
That...