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Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. U.S. Senate race update
2. Special session odds
3. CD4 handicapping
4. Smartest/dumbest moves
My insiders know their stuff – few think Brian Sandoval will run for the Senate (although I hear he hasn’t completely ruled it out), they lean toward Joe Heck doing it, mostly believe a special session is coming and some think Cresent Hardy can get re-elected:
►This needs ominous music: The end begins with the Economic Forum.
►Indeed: In contrast,...
Rep. Joe Heck, who said six months ago he has no interest in the U.S. Senate, is considering the race, sources confirm.
Heck recently met with the National Republican Senatorial Committee and has chatted with GOP senators, multiple sources told me. Heck still is leaning against the race, I'm told, but he has agreed to consider the contest.
"I still think it is more likely that he passes than runs but he has agreed to do his homework and consider it," said one insider familiar with Heck's...
It's early: The governor's Business License Fee tax plan just passed the state Senate on Tuesday, everyone knows it won't come out intact from the Assembly but there are still 40 days left in the session.
But it's never too early for pundits to pontificate and speculate. So here's what the contours of a tax deal might look like, as one knowledgeable outside observer put it:
We can still have “broad based tax” using a reformed MBT combined with a reformed LET and a tiered but flat BLF with a...
The Bundy Family is angry that lawmakers have changed a bill presented by Michele of the Thousand Tax Liens to, you know, make it legal. Barely
So what's happening now is lawmakers are being urged to vote NO on the measure that once was declared unconstitutional (um, federal supremacy) by every lawyer who looked at it, including the Legislative Cousnel Bureau. I hear the measure has no chance to go back to its original form and only a marginal chance to survive either way.
The latest panic...
I don't know why I asked for a statement from Gov. Brian Sandoval on the (temporary) entombment of the Uber bill, which today was revived when leaders of both houses exempted it from any deadlines, a highly unusual move for a dead piece of legislation.
But I asked for it:
“The Governor believes that the Legislature is the proper arena for this debate and that Nevada’s elected lawmakers are well suited to discuss, deliberate and ultimately address this issue with the best interest of Nevadans...
After believing a transgender bathroom bill was dead on the Assembly floor, GOP leaders are fretting the controversial measure is within a vote or two of passage before Tuesday's deadline.
The measure has no chance to become law -- it will either die in the Senate or be vetoed by the governor. But a headline highlighting the Assembly Republicans, who have been a serial embarrassment thanks to a core group of flat-out ignoramuses and religion-fueled obsessives, passing out this discriminatory...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. The 252 deal is done – can it hold?
2. The death of Uber – or not
3. Caucus report cards
4. Smartest/dumbest moves
I found out after I got off the air Friday evening that the deal on the governor’s tax bill was done. This has been the product of weeks of negotiations between the two leaders, with the governor’s intercession more recently to help close the agreement, which is supposed to result in a vote in the next 48 hours. With these folks, who...
State Sen. Kelvin Atkinson heard the hallway chatter, so he wanted to know what his lawyer thought: Can Uber operate without the failed regulatory bill so long as a companion insurance measure passed both houses?
The bill that passed the Senate, SB 440, defined a "transportation network company," leading some to believe that was enough for Uber to operate without the regulatory appartus cab and limo companies have. Atkinson, who is on the Commerce Committee and voted for the Uber...
Perhaps the most amazing thing about the latest drama among Assembly Republicans is that Michele Fiore has nothing to do with it.
After a series of spirited (euphemism alert) caucus meetings during the last week, in which Victoria Seaman read a prepared statement during one and Ira Hansen suggested if she were a man he would have punched her, the situation esclated Thursday to separate statements from caucus leaders and Seaman, in which she demanded a public apology from Hansen and criticized...
The AFL-CIO is going after state Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson with a new ad starting Friday statewide, complete with "Ralston Live" clip and scary beard picture (him not me.)