Wednesday, April 6, 2011

MUTH'S TRUTHS 04/06/2011



TEA PARTY RALLY IN VEGAS

TRUNC and Americans for Prosperity will host a “Tea Party” rally on Friday, April 15th, at the Grant Sawyer building in Las Vegas from 4 - 7 pm.  Overflow parking at Cashman Field: $4. Water and restrooms available.  KXNT will be on location covering the event.  Please pass this to everyone on your list; show Harry Reid that the Tea Party is here to stay!  For additional information, contact Laurel at laurel@TRUNConline.com

CLARK COUNTY GOP ENGAGES

While they’re still circulating milk cartons featuring the missing Nevada Republican Party during this all-important legislative session, the Clark County GOP folks have found their voice, their issues and their email list and are now fully engaged in the battle. 

Just yesterday I received two “Action Requests” – one urging support for state Sen. Elizabeth Halseth’s efforts to block efforts to make seat belt use a “primary offence” and another urging Reps. Dean Heller and Joe Heck to oppose a government take-over of the Internet by what is misleadingly called “net neutrality” legislation.  The “Action Requests” are well done, with brief summaries of the issues along with contact information for the elected officials involved. 

Now if only the Nevada GOP would discover that politics is goin’ on in Carson City and stop pumping out stock RNC-written press releases about President Obama.  Obama won’t be on the ballot for another year and a half.  The Nevada Legislature, however, is going on RIGHT NOW.  Gov. Sandoval needs the party’s help RIGHT NOW.  Taxpayers and conservatives need the party’s help RIGHT NOW.

What are you waiting for, a written invitation?

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Upcoming Engagements
April 13: Republican Townhall Group (Las Vegas, NV)
April 15: Tea Party Rally/Grant Sawyer Bldg. (Las Vegas, NV)

THE “BILL BANDIT” STRIKES AGAIN

Yesterday, Nevada’s citizens discoveredthat Democrat Assembly Speaker John Oceguera had effectively stolen four gun-related bills that had previously been introduced by legislative colleagues and resubmitted them under his own name.  In response, Sen. John Lee, a fellow Democrat, sent Oceguera a stinging letter, calling the Speaker out for his actions.

Well, it turns out the “Bill Bandit” doesn’t covet only gun legislation.

Assemblyman Steven Brooks, along with six fellow assembly members and three senators, introduced AB 443, which has already had a hearing. The bill “Provides a deduction from the payroll tax for wages paid to newly hired full-time employees under certain circumstances.”

Lo and behold, Speaker Oceguera is the sole sponsor of AB 436, a bill that “Provides a deduction from the payroll tax for wages paid to newly hired employees under certain circumstances.”  Johnny O’s bill is scheduled to be heard today, and yes, the language of the two bills is often identical.

I wonder if former Speaker Barbara Buckley ever stole bills from her colleagues like this?

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“BILL BANDIT” RESPONDS

Assembly Speaker John Oceguera (D-Sherwood Forest) responded yesterday to Sen. John Lee’s criticism on Monday of Speaker Oceguera’s pilfering of some of his colleagues’ legislation.  Interestingly, he never addressed the theft charge; only complained that Sen. Lee made the theft public instead of working out the matter behind closed doors.   You see, Johnny O loves the shadows.

But here’s the part about Johnny O’s letter to Sen. Lee that I found to most interesting: “I was surprised,” Oceguera wrote, “that you chose to send your letter to the media before I received it.”

What’s interesting here is that I don’t believe Sen. Lee DID send it to the media.  I believe I was the first to break and publish the letter and I did NOT receive it from Sen. Lee.  Which, of course, reminds me of how Oceguera’s chief clerk recently fired a legislative assistant for leaking an email to me even though she never leaked it to me.  Apparently the truth doesn’t matter in Johnny O’s world, and suspicion is enough for conviction.

I swear Oceguera’s paranoia about leaks to the press and others outside the legislative building is starting to seem downright...Nixonian.  And yet another example of how Johnny O is no Barbara Buckley.

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HYPERBOLE U’S WIXON WAXES POETIC

Hyperbole U trotted out University Regent Mike Wixom on Sunday with a Las Vegas Sun op/edusing the term “new paradigm” in the headline – which immediately suggested to me the opinion was going to be, well, six parts crappola mixed with a healthy dose of flapdoodle.  And Regent Wixom did not disappoint.

Wixom complains about people he supposedly has talked to “who have, just months ago, given me a lecture about not raising taxes” but now “desperately plead that we preserve a segment of higher education that they particularly value.”  According to Wixom, “cutting is acceptable to them, as long as it is someone or something else.”

In concluding his intellectual-lite paradigm piece, Wixom declares that raising taxes to avoid higher ed spending cuts is absolutely necessary as long as “someone else” pays for it.  “At a minimum, the taxes that are subject to sunset must be retained,” he declares.

That’s right, sales taxes, business taxes, payroll taxes and vehicle registration taxes all must be raised on everybody else in order to preserve the lowest college tuition fees in the region, as well as, “at a minimum,” duplicate teaching and nursing schools at both UNLV and the Nevada State College which are located a mere 17 miles apart from each other.

Meet the new paradigm; same as the old paradigm.

FIRST FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR

May’s First Friday Happy Hour in will feature Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain as our VIP guest.  Friday, May 6 at Stoney’sin Las Vegas from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.  Free parking, no cover charge and 2-1 drinks.  First Friday is co-sponsored by conservative talk-show host Alan Stock and and KXNT 100.5 FM/840 AM.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“There may have been some speculation in Carson City with regard to my position on taxes.  So let me be perfectly clear: I’m not going to trade taxes for anything.” – Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval in a speech on Tuesday

“Democrats are threatening….that they will not let the governor’s budget pass – even though they have no alternative. . . . I don’t hold out much hope that…the Democrats will be honest.” – Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston

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