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Lowden to Hutchison campaign manager: Let your guy debate me!

Now this is funny, and you don't see it often: A candidate writing to a campaign manager:

Law firm made proposal to Caesars before going with Adelson

Dickstein and Caesars AG Strategy Proposal.pdf

I expected some reaction in the increasingly ugly war over online gaming between Sheldon Adelson (and a few allies) and the MGM Grand/Caesars/American Gaming Association alliance when I exposed former Rep. Mary Bono's playing both sides. It came swiftly.

Former Rep. Mary Bono flirted with Adelson side before signing on to oppose him

Two months ago, former Rep. Mary Bono announced she would be heading up the Coalition for Consumer and Online Protection, the outfit erected to fight Sheldon Adelson's proposed poker ban.

Of course judges should not run for office

 

Hyepock the Lock

Supreme Court majority and minority manage to miss the point in campaign finance decision

To hear the bleating partisans tell it, the most recent Supreme Court decision on campaign finance struck the greatest blow for the First Amendment since Madison wrote it or sent America into the hands of oligarchs more inimical to democracy than George III ever was.

My commentary on the government's attempt to paper over state Obamacare disaster

 

Miller responds to dark money group

In a new ad airing in Reno, Secretary of State Ross Miller, running for attorney general, shows he understands the potential impact of an attack from an outside group.

First teachers union ad uses margin tax foe Sandoval to sell more money for education

3:40 PM, UPDATED BELOW WITH REID AD, TOO:   No one has spoken out more against The Education Initiative than Gov. Brian Sandoval. He has described the margin tax in terms generally reserved for what the world would look like after nuclear armageddon.

My Reality Check on Mark Hutchison's first ad