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Welcome to The Weekly Report, where you find exclusive commentary and analysis. As always, I welcome feedback.
This week:
1. My take on the State of the State
2. A new Insider Club Inductee
3. A slew of nuggets
MY COLUMN: STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH SUNNY
Two years ago, Gov. Brian Sandoval had a stark message to deliver to the denizens of the state:
“As our family gathers tonight, Nevadans are confronted on all sides with bad news,” he began his State of the State, ticking off the ravages of...
Attorney of record: Gov. Brian Sandoval
Governor's Mansion
Carson City, NV
Jon Ralston, on behalf of the people of the great state of Nevada,
vs.
The Fix, a supposedly knowledgeable political reporting enterprise
Case No.: 001
COMPLAINT
Plaintiff Jon Ralston brings forth the following causes of action and alleges the following:
Jon Ralston is an individual and resident of Henderson, NV.
The Fix is a few know-it-alls who reside in Washington, DC.
On or...
Courtesy of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Darrin Bush, Gov. Brian Sandoval at CES:
In 2011, Democrats came into the session planning to propose a tax increase. But with their two leaders intending to run for Congress and with courage taking its biennial 120-day holiday from the capital, they hid the ball until it was too late.
So a bold, even visionary plan suffocated in the legislative womb, stillborn. A wasted opportunity for a real discussion about the most important issue confronting Nevada, as it has been for the last quarter-century: How should the state tax and spend...
If I told you 25 years ago that a political fundraiser featuring Oscar Goodman would one day be held at a place called The Mob Museum, you would have called me crazy. If I told you that today, you would say: Of course!
And that's what's happening Jan. 23 as Las Vegas Councilman Steve Ross isn't taking any chances as he seeks another term, coralling The Family Goodman, every major lobbyist and many others for early money.
Who's on the list? Who isn't?
From the invite:
Tom Arlt, Ryan...
For years, the complaint has been whispered or bellowed in Southern Nevada: Give us our fair share.
The loudest voices have been the likes of Jim Bilbray, first as a regent and then as a state senator, and Dina Titus, the longtime upper house minority leader now in the House. The math would puzzle an outsider: The South has had a near supermajority in both houses for decades, yet the North has always had its way, or so it seemed. That was mostly thanks to the late Bill Raggio, the Sentinel of...
UPDATED WITH QUOTE FROM REID, DCCC AND TEAM TITUS BELOW.
Democratic National Committeewoman Erin Bilbray will meet next week with Rep. Steve Israel, who leads the party's House campaign committee, to discuss running against GOP Rep. Joe Heck in Nevada's swing district. (UPDATE: Bilbray now says meeting is first with staff a week from Friday and then following week with Israel.)
Bilbray, who will be in DC for the inauguration, confirmed the meeting with Israel.
"Steve Israel called me," she...
"But what he likes doing most of all, apparently, is insulting people."
That is Real Clear Politics DC bureau chief Carl Cannon's assessment this morning of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in a piece in which he allowed me to bloviate about my views on Reid's behavior and view of the media and catalogued some of Reid's "greatest" hits in the wake of his latest -- the unfortunate hurricanes comparison.
Cannon gave me a chance to synthesize some of my thoughts about Reid and the media. The...