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Site poll: It's Debbie Smith by a nose for Dem leader (209 votes total)
Who will lead the state Senate Democrats in 2015?
Pro-margin tax ads to go up Tuesday
The teachers union is going up with two spots to promote The Education Initiative. They begin Tuesday. The buy is about $700,000, I'm reliably told. And they could make this very, very interesting. (I love how they use that controversial UNLV study to make their case. Now about how TEI will affect only the "largest corporations." Um....)
MY COLUMN: The year that changed Nevada -- the untold details of how the Tesla deal was done
When Steve Hill, the state's economic development czar, picked up the phone a year ago, Ryan Mulvenon, an energy policy staffer for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was on the line.
New low for RJ? Using house ad to oppose margin tax
The Las Vegas Review-Journal is now officially part of the Coalition to Defeat Question 3. In a stunning move this morning, the RJ has a house ad dedicated to opposing The Education Initiative. I initially thought the ad, which you can see below, was from the foes' media campaign. But in tiny print you need a magnifying glass to see, right below the ad, it says: "A message from the Las Vegas Review-Journal." My God. I'm sure this will be disclosed in all news stories from now on, right? How soon until these ads make it onto the front page?
New Laxalt ad uses best defense is a good offense
A new Adam Laxalt spot in the AG's race describes his devastating law firm evaluation as "stolen" and "illegally leaked" and all but accuses Secretary of State Ross Miller of being behind the putative theft. The ad, which could be pretty effective, comes on the heels of a state Democratic Party ad that mentions the evaluation.
RJ poll has some of the screwiest internals I've seen since....2010
The Las Vegas Review-Journal poll suggests state Sen. Mark Hutchison is crushing Assemblywoman Lucy Flores among Hispanics, that Republican candidates are destroying Democrats in Las Vegas, where Democrats have a 14 percentage point edge and that GOP state Sen. Barbara Cegavske is getting 42 percent of the African-American vote. In other words, it makes no sense.
Candidate makes outlandish claims; "newspaper" fails to challenge any of them
Yes, we already knew Mark Hutchison and Brian Sandoval are the same person. But when the state senator, who has a bad case of loving the governor, came under the withering gaze of the Las Vegas Review-Journal's editorial board, which may have presented him with its endorsement on the spot, the GOP lieutenant governor's hopeful uttered all kinds of nonsense that the crack journalists did not challenge. To wit:
Reid appoints guy to national panel who he once was accused of threatening
When Bob Brown was at the Review-Journal, which crusaded to defeat him in 2010, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said to him, "I hope you got out of business."