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This week:
1. Exclusive contribution tallies
2. The Weekly Insiders on smartest/dumbest moves best/worst ads, moreA trio of things to ponder as early voting begins with the GOP looking strong:
► More and more, Dems and Repubs ceding SD8 and SD20 to the GOP and focusing all of their energies on Justin Jones' seat. Could that be so?
► If these early numbers continue without the Dems building a real firewall in Clark County and with the South's percentage of the...
It may be too little, too late. But this spot is one of the best of the year.
I want to vote against the margin tax. I really do.
I recoil at the idea of making serious tax policy at the ballot box. The tax is not written well – it has a fiscal cliff, the rate is too high. And I do not want to lose my faith in the Legislature to do its job, as hard as the Gang of 63 tries to make me do so.
I have many reasons to vote against it. But I just may vote for it.
Why?
Because of the history of false promises from those spending millions to defeat it and because of their...
Tesla Chairman Elon Musk's other company doing business in Nevada gave nearly $40,000 to lawmakers and Gov. Brian Sandoval right before the special session that ratified the gigafactory deal and shortly after the 15-day post-session fundraising blackout period ended.
The largest donation from Solar City was a $7,000 thank you to Sandoval right after the blackout period ended, but the company also gave to key lawmakers and partisan caucus PACs, including in the days before the session started....
These will leave a mark.
With the state party a joke and incapable of raising money or executing the simplest tasks, megadonor Sheldon Adelson put his faith in the Clark County party, giving three quarters of what it raised since June.
The report shows Las Vegas Sands gave $30,000 out of the $46,000 raised by the county GOP, which really hasn't done much besides occasionally sending generally ignored news releases into the black hole of cyberspace, and despite spending nearly $80,000, mostly on payroll and other costs...