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If you are wondering why Republicans are having trouble finding a credible candidate to challenge Secretary of State Ross Miller for attorney general, consider what is occurring this month:
Two fundraisers, one North (Eldorado) and one South (Wynn), that feature host committees cutting across partisan and special interest lines.
The event announcements, both attached here, include:
----A slew of current (Clark DA Steve Wolfson not seen on this kind of list very often) and former elected...
And so it begins.
A broad-based coalition on Wednesday filed a political action committee Wednesday, the secretary of state's office confirms, to try to defeat the margins tax, and sources confirmed this marriage of convenience also has retained national talent to gauge public sentiment and prepare strategy to scuttle The Education Initiative.
The Margins Tax Initiative Research Committee (what's in a name?) is the product of the Nevada Resort Association, the Nevada Mining Association, the...
Good morning, everyone. I was up early, as ever, working away, television off in the pre-Twitter age when the phone rang. “Are you watching TV?” my producer, Dana Gentry, asked. I was not, so I had missed the first plane hit. The rest of the day was a blur. Serendipitously, we had the Israeli ambassador scheduled for the show, a great guest. But he soon canceled, I was soon at the television station for a day that seemed to never end. Watching the replay this morning, it is still so, so...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Reaction to the president's speech.
DAYS UNTIL "RALSTON REPORTS" AIRS AT 6:30 IN THE SOUTH AGAIN: 6
DAYS UNTIL FILING FOR OFFICE OPENS IN 2014: 174
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 273
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 420
Good morning, everyone. You don’t hear politicians – nay, most human beings – use the phrase “emotional contagion” in a sentence, much less on television. But that’s exactly how Andrew Martin, the assemblyman...
UPDATE: This post catalyzed quite the interesting legal debate over what exactly this PAC and its affiliate (especially) might have to disclose after my suggestion that the use of an LLC might be for disclosure evasion. Some attorneys think that SB 246 from last session will force the LLC to disclose but it is by no means clear. If the LLC is simply seen as a vendor not providing free services, it may not have to disclose. Ad one attorney among several who weighed in told me:
"Let me put it...
Gaming and mining run Nevada because lawmakers are in their pockets, so the citizenry needs to have better access to the petition process to ensure democracy survives.
That’s the essence of a fairly amazing document filed this week with the Nevada Supreme Court, likely the final brief before the justices begin hearing arguments in a long-running case in which some government gadflies are taking on the state’s moneyed interests over access to the ballot.
The case actually was filed against the...
A few years ago, my mentor and a great journalist, Bob Stoldal, told me he worried that I was doing so much that he got to wondering, “When do you have time to think?”
It was, as usual, the right question. And it came to mind as I finished reading Peter Hamby’s impressive and provocative study of campaign reporting, “Did Twitter Kill the Boys on the Bus? Searching for a better way to cover a campaign.” The study, which can be read here, was done for Harvards’s JFK School.
Hamby, an excellent...
It may be moot after the president's speech Tuesday evening, but the Clark County GOP plans Wednesday to adopt a resolution opposing military intervention in Syria.
The key passages:
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Clark County Republican Party hereby declares that we believe military intervention in Syria to be against the best interest of the United States and it’s citizens at this time; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Clark County Republican Party wishes to offer it’s full support to...