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The Culinary union, which has been lobbying for an end to the so-called Cadillac tax in Obamacare, began a Spanish-language radio ad today targeting the Democratic presidential candiodates in advance of next week's debate.
It mentions a Republican (Dean Heller) friendly to the cause and takes a pretty tough line.
The script:
We welcome the Democratic candidates for President to Las Vegas...where we live and work and raise our families.
Democrats haven't welcomed us in Washington. When we...
A couple of weeks after Elko school trustees, encouraged by three conservative legislators, declined to invoke an anti-bullying law to protect a transgender student, the ACLU of Nevada is signaling it intends to sue.
On Tuesday, the ACLU sent a letter (see below) that demands the district respond by Tuesday: "The Elko County School District’s refusal to allow Doe to use the boys’ restroom violates Title IX, the Equal Protection Clause, and both Nevada public accommodation laws and Nevada laws...
After Clark County Chairman Ed Williams resigned from the state party's executive board, citing Chairman Michael McDonald's problems, the leader who bankrupted the state GOP, was hired in a six-figure no-work job by the state treasurer and is enmeshed in a scandal fired back.
In his missive sent to Republicans, McDonald attacked Williams, the Review-Journal for reporting on his latest depredations and then wrote this, one of the funniest paragraphs I have read in a long time:
Chairman...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. The Lip decision reverberations
2. Voter registration context
3. Roberson's haul in perspective
4. The CD3/CD4 update
5. Ranking some possibilities
6. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week
►Line of the week: Roberson's haul is incredible. That is more than $100k for each of Danny's losses. Close second: I just want to see the list of people who donate to a guy who has lost 5 races. I want to sell them bridges.
►This is so important: What a huge...
Donald Trump will hold a rally in Las Vegas on Thursday at the Tresaure Island, which is owned by his pal, Phil Ruffin.
"Join Donald Trump in Las Vegas to hear his vision on how to Make America Great Again!" the emailed invite for the noon rally in the Mystere Theater (Trump du Soleil!) says, which also has a link for those who want to attend to click on an Eventbrite. Only problem: There is no clickable link. (Details do not matter to this campaign!)
The theater also is a relatively small...
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Michele Fiore and John Moore. Take them. Please. (Sorry, Henny.)
Fiore, who is busily preparing a congressional bid (Health plan: Treat all cancers as fungi!), and Moore, famous mostly for being a Fiore echo, have each endorsed two candidates now in the presidential race. So, too, has Fiore's BFF, Victoria Seaman.
Oh, GOP Ass. Caucus. I have missed you so.
Today, Moore, of all people, the man who shouldn't even have been in Carson City except Jason Frierson fell...
This is smart, the day before the Oct. 13 Democratic presidential debate at The Wynn.
I didn’t want to write about this. I really didn’t. But they have left me no choice.
“They” are members of The Barnacle Caucus, the lowlifes who attach themselves to the ship of politics and serve no useful purpose. They are slimy but usually no more than annoying.
This time, though, they have sunk to a new level, which now cannot be ignored because it has been pushed to the public airwaves.
I’ll keep this as short as I can for reasons that will become obvious. But this is yet another story...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. The battle for legislative control: Who has the early advantage?
2. Defunding Planned Parenthood: Net positive for GOP?
3. Leading candidate for governor: The early look
4. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week
So AG Adam Laxalt is going for governor? So speculate some of my insiders. And Clark County Commission Chair Steve Sisolak is going for it. That choice, said one of my wry observers of a Laxalt-Sisolak race, is akin to “a choice between brussel...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. Heather the savior?
2. GOP debate takes
3. Uber wars
4.Gansert’s gaffe
Most of my insiders seems to think Heather Murren would be a formidable candidate, but not all are sure she will run. Neither am I. My conversation with her indicated that she really wants to do this, but is far from there yet.
My insiders generally think the Uber wars are over, but some think the company's arrogance is an Achilles heel and the court fight is about to begin. As...