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Treasurer Dan Schwartz, who threatened during the campaign to present an alternative to the governor's budget even though he is simply charged with making state investments, has done just that.
And the treasurer's alternative $6.8 billion plan, which removes the new business tax and mining tax components and is $500 million less then Brian Sandoval's budget, is online here. My favorite parts:
►Nevadans soundly rejected a tax very similar to the Business License Fee—the Margins tax— in this past...
UPDATED WITH GUBERNATORIAL DODGE, 3:45 PM:
Spokeswoman Mari St. Martin: "The Governor made it clear in his State of the State address that he supports a school bond rollover in order to help provide Nevada's students with the best environment for students to learn. This legislation will be thoroughly vetted and possibly changed by the Legislature so he will not comment on its language until the final version, as approved by the Legislature, arrives on his desk for signature."
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GOP leaders inserted redistricting language into the rules governing the 78th legislative session, a maneuver designed to keep an important bargaining chip in play while limiting mischief from within the Ass. GOP Caucus.
The language, which is here in Rule 13, enables redistricting only if the chairmen of key committees introduce it or if leadership desires to do so. But why start the session off on such a presumably partisan note, although Assembly Democrats supported the language while Senate...
This week:
1. A trio of nuggets, including some thoughts on the Metro corruption probe, partial transcript of the BLF unveiling and the Washington State model
2. My insiders on Hambrick’s speakership, Harry Reid’s running or not and Sandoval vs. Laxalt.
3. Smartest/dumbest political moves of the week
A TRIO OF PREMIUM NUGGETS:
Nugget No. 1 – That Metro corruption probe, which I told you about in Friday’s Morning Flash, is not just about some clumsy attempt to coerce/bribe Chris Edwards on...
State Sen. Debbie Smith will not be in Carson City as the session begins because of what she told friends is a "serious health issue."
Here's what she sent to friends last night -- it does not sound good:
Friends,
I wanted you to know I have a serious health situation unfolding. There will be a press release Monday morning but I wanted to tell you first. I am leaving town for more tests and will let you know when I know more. I'm not going to be at the swearing in and will most likely be...
UPDATE, 2:30 PM: Guess who is registered to vote at that address where Metro served the search warrant? Rob Lauer, the failed GOP candidate for secretary of state a couple of cycles ago, according to Clark County Election Department records. Lauer also tried to get appointed to the Assembly seat vacated by Wes Duncan, who went to work for General Adam Laxalt. Lauer is alleged to be the person who approached Edwards about changing his vote, I'm reliably told.
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GOP consultant Tony Dane has ramped up his campaign against Speaker du Jour John Hambrick with a robocall attacking him as a "tax and spend liberal" who supports a "gross receipts tax."
Sounding very much like a mindless Citizen Outhouse screed, Dane's CRC PAC, under investigation by the secretary of state, declares, "Gov. Brian Sandoval is at it again." Again?
The robocall (audio attached here) says Hambrick is "helping to push...the same tax that 80 percent of Nevadans turned down in the last...
Gov. Brian Sandoval was about to unveil details of his tax plan, and Monte Miller wanted to be there.
Businessman Miller, already viewed by some in the administration as Enemy No. 1 because of his opposition, crashed the media briefing Thursday afternoon that was video-conferenced from Carson City to Las Vegas. And after the detailed presentation of the expanded business license fee, Miller wasn’t giving an inch in his advocacy for an alternative using the existing payroll tax, known as the...
General Adam Laxalt's justification for Nevada joining 25 other states in suing the federal government over the president's immigration executive action is that the state "is obligated to provide drivers' licenses" to the beneficiaries and will "suffer economic discrimination against its citizens," according to the legal document he filed Friday.
That document, attached here and filed with Tennessee, says the state "will incur costs to remediate the consequences" of the president's order and "...
News item: Gov. Brian Sandoval says he will meet with Attorney General Adam Laxalt on the latter’s decision to join an immigration lawsuit.
I have obtained, exclusively, a transcript of their meeting in the governor’s office:
Sandoval: Good morning, Adam.
Laxalt: You can call me “General.”
Sandoval: I could. But I won’t.
Laxalt: I hope you understand that you are not the boss of me, governor.
Sandoval: No, I’m not. You are an independently elected constitutional officer.
Laxalt (beams): I know...