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Poll: Sandoval is monster with GOP voters
The headline surely was not what Team Sandoval wanted to see: "Nevada GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval is popular, but not within his party" I thought the L.A. Times story itself was pretty good for Sandoval. Mark Barabak did a great job of capturing the governor's deliberative, careful and moderate style while finding only taxaphobic Grover Norquist and a Nevada-based Norquistian who despises the governor to criticize him.
Attorney responds to State Bar president's religious manifesto
RJ columnist Steve Sebelius was first to give this bizarre column more widespread currency.
Attorney Jay Brown asks med pot client for $37,500 nonrefundable fee, 9 percent of business
UPDATE, 9:15 AM, 5/15/14: A state Bar official informs me that the Rule 1.8 (i) of the Rules of Professional Conduct may come into play here:
Hutchison sprints away from personal injury lawyer label, falls into hole, keeps digging
UPDATED WITH VIDEO VERSION BELOW Maybe it’s frontrunner, gubernatorial anointee arrogance. Maybe it’s polling that shows him well ahead. Maybe he doesn’t know what his own law firm does.
Reality Check: Hutchison ad gets A-minus for attack on Lowden
Titus to get high for money, then will got to pot
Two different events -- one at the new ferris wheel, one with pot folks at Dr. Pot's house.
Lowden goes up with ad about Hutchison, Obamacare and taxes
Can she get it enough gross rating points? Good issues for GOP primary electorate? Check. Terrible B & W pic of opponent? Check. Massage your own record ("Never met a tax she liked"). Check. It does sound as if she puts an extra "N" in Hutchison's name, and the production values are not, ahem, high. But I quibble.
Bilbray: I'm only 8 points down!
It's not often that candidates release poll results showing them losing by a significant margin. But that's what Democratic congressional candidate Erin Bilbray did today, disseminating a polling memo indicating she is behind by 8 percentage points to GOP Rep. Joe Heck. She is alive!
Bundy: Sheriff, governor are corrupt and we will take legal action
This went out today -- I annotated in italics:
IE group to file vs. Brager
A group calling itself the Nevada Values PAC plans to file Tuesday to support ex-state Sen. Mike Schneider against Clark County Commissioner Susan Brager in the June primary. The PAC will be primarily funded by labor groups, including SEIU and the AFL-CIO, said Annette Magnus of ProgressNow Nevada who is overseeing the effort.