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In the wake of those controversial videos showing conversations about fetal tissue after abortions, Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt has sent a letter to the Nevada chapter seeking information on the group's practices.
The letter is careful not to accuse the local chapter of anything and acknowledges that its website indicates the Nevada organization supplies only abortion pills and therefore would not have any fetal tissue to sell.
"Please confirm in writing that the Nevada facilities do...
State Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald, who essentially has bankrupted the GOP and who is involved in a murky financial deal involving a charity, has been working at a six-figure job created for him by state Treasurer Dan Schwartz.
McDonald, a former police officer turned lobbyist, has been employed by the state since July 20 as a "senior deputy state treasurer" with a salary ($95,192) and benefits package worth more than $100,000. Schwartz, who used to work under McDonald as the...
UPDATED, 6:15 AM, 9/17/15: Here is an email I received Wednesday night from Heidi Gansert:
I wanted to follow up on our conversation today. I support the Governor's agenda - I support his education priorities and the funding that enables our education system to modernize. Additionally, I do not support efforts to repeal the tax package that a super majority of the legislature approved.
So....everyone clear?
I don't even know where to start with newly minted state Senate candidate Heidi...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. The ballot initiative Angle
2. Will the Dems get a real candidate in CD3?
3. The school choice lawsuits
4. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week
Happy post-Labor Day campaign rush, dear premium subscribers. Well, sort of. The abstract: Quiet on the U.S. Senate race front (Catherine Cortez Masto is scheduled to be on “Ralston Live” on Monday.) Democrats still have no candidate in CD3 after trying to woo some high-profile folks (see below) while DC...
The cabs have hired lobbyists (again), and some commissioners think they can slow Uber through the business licensing process.
But, Legislative Counsel Brenda Erdoes says, you can't. Check out her opinion below, requested by Uber backer Michael Roberson, that says the county can't put any special requirements on transportation network companies.
Senator Roberson 9_11_2015.pdf by Jon Ralston
The Coalition for Nevada's Future, the group expected to be funded by gaming and other interests to fight the effort to repeal the tax increase passed this year, filed suit today seeking to short-circuit the would-be repeal campaign.
The suit, which you can see below, basically says that everything that can be wrong with a petition is wrong with this one, including violating the single-subject rule and having a misleading description of its effect. That's why this repeal group, led by Citizen...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. A couple of exclusive premium nuggets -- those American Federation for Children mailers and a new Becky Harris PAC
2. This is the way Fiore's career ends....or is it?
3. Will Cortez Masto go for the Iran deal?
4. What will be the biggest 2016 issue: School choice, tax repeal, pot or Issue X?
5. Smartest/dumbest moves of the week
►Line of the week, on the tax repeal lawsuit: That thing has more spelling errors than a Victoria Seaman birthday...
A new lawsuit filed by three members of the Assembly and their Citizen Outhouse adviser seeks to declare the new tax bill invalid before it can be repealed.
Oh, yes: I'm serious.
The suit, which is below, was filed by We Decide Coalition (the would-be repeal outfit) boss Chuck Muth and Assembly members Michele Fiore, Shelly Shelton and John Moore. Muth partner Dan Burdish was with Fiore almost all session and Shelton and Moore, especially, were her Carson echoes.
The suit was filed by rabble-...
Many have tried to find out where U.S. Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto stands on the Iran deal, which her opponent, Rep. Joe Heck, opposes.
I have tried, most recently as a week ago and got this from her campaign: "Still reviewing the agreement."
Even after Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid came out for it last weekend, his would-be successor is still mum. (Of course, Prince Harry says her position doesn't matter. Yes, why should she take a stand on one of the most important foreign...