Thursday, November 20, 2014

SILVER STATE CONFIDENTIAL 11/20/2014

DRIVE-BY MUTHINGS

His Royal Highness, President Barack Obama, will be in Las Vegas tomorrow proclaiming executive amnesty for millions of persons living in the United States unlawfully.  That he was too chicken to take that action BEFORE the November elections tells you all you need to know about why every two-bit terrorist and tin-pot dictator around the globe is standing up to the U.S. and telling us to pound sand.

Michael Mishak of the Associated Press and formerly a reporter with the Las Vegas Sun reports that GOP presidential would-be candidate and former Florida governor Jeb Bush is having trouble getting traction with conservative Republicans because he has been “one of the country’s most vocal supporters of academic standards known as Common Core.”

So has Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval.  Maybe they could run as a ticket.


On Monday, conservative Republican challenger Lisa Krasner requested a recount in her race against tax-hiking moderate Assemblyman Randy “Kirner Tax” Kirner (RINO-Kirner Tax); a race Kirner won on Election Night by just 11 votes out of 20,651 votes cast. (Who says your vote doesn’t count!)

Now here’s the thing: Recounts very rarely succeed.  Nevertheless, in unsurprisingly “girlie man” fashion, Kirner had his lawyer go to court yesterday to stop the recount!  Can you say, “Who’s scared?”

“I represent Assemblyman Kirner in regards to the recount you have demanded,” wrote attorney David O’Mara to Krasner yesterday, advising that he was going to “seek a Judge to hear the matter for a temporary restraining order (against the recount) and/or if possible, ask that the matter to be advanced on the merits for a permanent injunction.”

That Kirner would stoop to cheap legal theatrics in an effort to thwart an effort to discern, without question, the true wishes of the voters of Assembly District 26 shows what I’ve been writing about him for over a year: He’s a weenie. 

Sure hope Krasner pulls off a miracle and unseats this guy.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that “A sales-tax increase pushed Japan's economy into a recession in the third quarter.”  Something to keep in mind when Gov. Brian Sandoval introduces “The Mother of All Tax Hikes 2” in Carson City in 8 weeks.

Speaking of the Sandoval tax hike, conservative firebrand Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, no shrinking violet is she, has been named Chairman of the Assembly Taxation Committee. 

I wonder if she’ll take a page from former state Sen. Sue Lowden’s playbook and nickname it the “Non-Taxation Committee.”

Speaking of committee chairs, conservative Assemblyman Jim Wheeler has been tapped as Chairman of the Assembly Transportation Committee. 

What’s fun about that is that the Nevada Motor Transport Association was the primary funder of a brutal attack mailer against Wheeler in the GOP primary last spring.  Wheeler knows it.  And he hasn’t forgotten it.

I wonder if NMTA boss Paul Enos prefers ketchup or BBQ sauce on his crow?

On other leadership choices in the Assembly…

The caucus elected moderate Assemblyman Paul Anderson to be its Majority Leader on the same night it ousted moderate Assemblyman Pat Hickey as leader.  But that was late in the evening after a very long and contentious meeting and before Anderson was also tapped to be Chairman of the Assembly Ways & Means Committee.

The problem is, the Ways and Means Committee is probably the most intense and time-consuming committee in the Assembly.  There’s no way Anderson can do both jobs effectively.  If there was, then the Democrats’ Majority Leader would also have served as Ways and Means chair when they were in the majority. 

It didn’t happen.

Anderson needs to pick one or the other…or he’ll end up doing injustice to both.

Moderate Assemblywoman Melissa Woodbury was named Chairman of the Education Committee.  This, too, is problematic. 

Woodbury is a public school teacher and government employee who has never been known to champion the kind of radical education reform necessary to actually fix our stinkin’, last-in-the-nation public schools.  This is a true fox guarding the hen-house appointment.

As is the appointment of Assemblyman Wes Duncan as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. 

That committee, as Fiore points out in her e-newsletter today, “has jurisdiction over measures affecting primarily the State Judicial Department, justice courts, civil practice and procedure,” etc.  Problem is Duncan took a job as a government employee with the Clark County district attorney’s office last year.

The dog-serving-two-masters problem of being a government employee and serving in the Legislature at the same time is something Republicans were virulently opposed to…when it was Democrats who were the guilty party.  Now the GOP looks the other way.  But wrong is wrong. 

Oh, and by the way, about that so-called Republican war on women...

In the last session of the Legislature there were only two GOP women serving in the Assembly, Fiore and Woodbury.  In next year’s session there will be seven.  Even better, with the exception of Woodbury, every one of them is a solid, fiscal conservative who has signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge.

On Monday, the search committee for a new president for UNLV voted 5-1 in favor of Len Jessup.  The sole dissenting vote went to John White.  Who’s black.  Cast by Cedric Crear.  Who’s black.

If it would be racist to vote AGAINST a candidate who was black simply because they’re black, then wouldn’t it also be racist to vote FOR a candidate who’s black simply because they’re black?  I’m just saying.

REMINDER: VOTE TODAY IN $100,000 TEACHER CHALLENGE

Remember, you can (and should, please) vote every day for Brenda Moynihan in her effort to secure a $100,000 grant for C.T. Sewell Elementary School in Henderson.

CLICK HERE to vote.  And remember, you can vote every day until the deadline on November 30th.  You know, just like in Chicago elections!

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“Without exploring rural Nevada, you can’t really claim to be a Nevadan.” – Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Jane Ann Morrison

“In calling for the FCC to reclassify the Internet as a utility, President Obama aims to do to the Internet what he did to health insurance: Make it worse and more expensive.” – Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial, 11/17/14


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