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Retailers, gamers to LVGEA boss: You don't speak for us
It turns out the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance isn't so global.
Fiore makes move to take majority leader slot
You could have seen this coming: Michele Fiore, the Bundy-loving, Culinary-hating loose cannon, is making a play to oust Paul Anderson as majority leader of the new GOP majority, sources confirm.
Hansen to meet with Adelson over old remarks about Israel
UPDATE, 5:30 PM: Sounds as if the meeting went well. Adelson and Hansen met for 90 minutes. "They had a very good discussion about Israel, and Ira Hansen passed with flying colors," Adelson lieutenant Andy Abboud told me, adding that Hansen's views on Israel have evolved with the help of another Jewish casino owner, Atlantis boss John Farahi. "I think it is a mistake to think that Ira Hansen is someone that people can't deal with." --------------------
Background check initiative will easily qualify
They will have a press event Wednesday, but I have learned advocates of a background check initiative for 2016 have more than enough signatures. How many? They need 101,000 and change; they have 250,000. It will be on the ballot in two years. And so, I'd guess, will recreational pot. The beginning of a blue wave? Or wishful thinking?
Get Rid of the BLM!
The Bundy Caucus has its first meeting. (In case you can't read it on your phone or laptop, note caucus spokesman Jim Wheeler, also tasked with mentoring the freshman, response to one poster who suggests: "Run the BLM out of our state would be my #1 request." Wheeler: "Good idea!") Have I mentioned how much fun this session will be?
This is what happens two weeks after you shockingly take over the Assembly
2015 Mischief blog, one in a series: The Ira Era begins
Four Monday nuggets about the Ira Era, which officially begins in 84 days:
MY COLUMN: Republicans took control of state government, so now what?
On March 5, 2013, legislative Democrats killed themselves. But that was not enough for these experts at political hara kiri: They also ensured that the coming red wave would be wide and deep, that Gov. Brian Sandoval would go unchallenged and that the Republican brand in Nevada would glisten.