AX THE TAX NOW
OK, both the Wall Street Journal and Investor’s Business
Daily have come out in opposition to Gov. Brian
“America’s Worst Governor” Sandoval’s (R&R-Advertising) billion dollar
tax hike, the largest in state history or anywhere else in the country
today.
So, um, what are so many Assembly Republicans waiting
for? Everyone knows what the plan
is. Are they for it…or against it? Inquiring minds wanna know.
OF TERMITES AND TAX-HIKING REPUBLICANS
So my other line of business is as a marketing consultant. And as such I’ve been driving down to San
Diego once a month for a marketing “meet-up” with 50-60 other small business
owners and entrepreneurs for about a year and a half now.
And while there Friday morning, I took a stroll along the
boardwalk in Mission Beach and ran across a homeowner with a house right on the
beach.
He told me that one morning last summer, he woke up and found
a couple of termites milling about on the side of the house. He said he asked them, point blank, “Are you
going to eat my house or won’t you?”
The termites responded that they really weren’t sure yet and
had to “study” the issue first. And
rather than call the exterminator immediately, the home owner decided to wait
and see.
Here’s what his beachfront house looks like today!
There’s a lesson to be learned here about Republicans in the
State Assembly who refuse to give a definitive answer as to where they stand on
Gov. Brian “America’s Worst Governor”
Sandoval’s (R&R-Advertising) billion dollar tax hike…
Don’t wait. Recall
them now! BEFORE they do the
damage.
CCRP DEFENDS BILLION DOLLAR TAX HIKE
Clearly at the behest of the Republican establishment elite,
the Clark County Republican Party has filed a complaint with the Nevada
Secretary of State’s office – incredibly citing “journalist” Jon Ralston as a credible source (HA!)
– alleging that GOP activist Tony Dane
was “accepting illegal conduit contributions” and using the funds to hammer
Republican assemblymen who have been mealy-mouthed and fork-tongued on their
support for Gov. Brian “America’s Worst
Governor” Sandoval’s (R&R-Advertising) billion dollar tax hike and, as
such, have attracted recall efforts by Republican constituents of the
legislators.
I’ll leave the merits and disposition of the complaint up to
the Secretary of State, but according to the aforementioned Ralston, the CCRP -
led by GOP establishment hand-maiden Chairman Dave “For Himself” McKeon - issued a statement about the complaint
as follows…
“Recall efforts against legislators that have yet to cast a vote is unwarranted. These legislators were duly elected to serve their constituents, some even having worked through primary elections, and they need to focus on performing that job and fighting for conservative causes, rather than defending themselves from attacks. They deserve a chance to debate and vote on matters before the legislature before they can be fairly judged for their actions."
It’s a shame McKeon & Company have bought into the
anti-conservative propaganda being spewed by Ralston, Nevada’s #2 liberal
blogger-without-a-TV-show.
That said, my understanding of the situation is this…
Dane contributed $250,000 of his own money to a political
action committee (PAC), which in turn is sending out mailers and robo-calls
hammering Speaker-of-the-Weak John
Hambrick and Assemblyman Chris
“Let’s Make a Deal” Edwards for being soft supporters of Sandoval’s billion
dollar tax hike.
Dane has contributed his own money – which he’s paid taxes
on – to a PAC, and has disclosed it fully.
The PAC, in turn, has registered properly with the Nevada Secretary of
State, has filed all the required reports, and included a disclaimer on the
mailers and the robo-calls that it was responsible for their content.
Full transparency.
But that’s not good enough.
Indeed, Ralston & McKeon want Dane to disclose all of his private
consulting clients, as well!
This is nothing more than a witch-hunt fishing
expedition. If the public wants to know
who is funding the mailers and robo-calls, it’s Tony Dane. Everybody knows it. And that’s all the public needs to know.
Frankly, I believe it's more than the public needs to know, but that's a debate for another day.
What Ralston and McKeon want, if taken to its logical
conclusion, is for, say, Sheldon Adelson to list each and every customer who
has spent money in his Venetian and Palazzo Resorts on a campaign finance
report itemizing where he got the money to donate to political causes.
Ditto every and any businessman who dares to contribute money to a political cause.
It’s an absurd notion.
Which explains why Ralston and McKeon are joined at the hip on it.
DRIVE-BY MUTHINGS
Correction: In my column Friday afternoon titled, “Sandoval
Throws Laxalt under the Bus,” I suggested that Gov. Brian “America’s Worst Governor” Sandoval (R&R-Advertising)
could have simply walked down the hall and met with Attorney General Adam Laxalt to discuss any problems the
governor might have had with Nevada joining that lawsuit against Obama’s
“executive amnesty” actions.
A longtime friend of mine from Lake Tahoe pointed out that I
was seriously mistaken.
Laxalt’s office isn’t down the hall in the same capital
building as the governor’s office. It’s
all the way across the street! Understandably,
that was just too far to walk for the governor.
As such, I stand humbly corrected.
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Remember that “Great Nevada Comeback” Gov. Brian “America's Worst Governor” Sandoval
(R&R-Advertising) boasted of during his 2014 re-election campaign – the
same campaign where he hid from Nevada voters his plan to sock us with a
billion tax hike? Well, it turns out
that "comback" thing was a deception, as well.
The Las Vegas
Review-Journal reported on Saturday that statewide gaming revenue in 2014
declined for the first time in four years.
The dip was even more severe on the world-famous Las Vegas Strip.
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Guess who blew off a huge and long-planned school choice
rally in Carson City this week? Yep,
Gov. Brian “America’s Worst Governor” Sandoval
(R&R-Advertising) - who has talked and talked and talked about school choice
over the first four years in office but hasn’t lifted a finger to actually make
it happen.
Another classic example of “leading from behind.”
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One of those who DID show up and speak at the Carson
City school choice rally was superstar Principal Carrie Buck of the Pinecrest Charter School Academy in
Henderson. And get this. Buck noted that when a school district
purchases laptop computers, they cost $1,100.
But in charters, “you get them from Costco for $349 and they arrive in
three to four days, not three to four months.”
Proving once again that throwing more money at the public
school system won’t fix what ails it.
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The Republican Assembly Caucus issued a DC-style/pabulum-infused
statement in conjunction with the School Choice Rally, including quotes from
Assemblyman Pat “The Appeaser” Hickey,
Assemblyman David Gardner and
Assemblywoman Melissa Woodbury - all
of whom miraculously failed to so much as utter the “voucher” word, let alone
champion the idea.
No conservative should support even a dime of additional
money to public education in Nevada without approval of at least a pilot school
voucher program of some sort. Period.
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Jonas Peterson,
president and CEO of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal this week that
“the state falls short when it comes to providing an educated workforce” and
that hurts Nevada’s ability to attract major business relocations.
But it didn’t stop Apple.
Or Tesla. Or Switch. Or scores of other businesses coming here
thanks to generous tax-cut offers.
Seems our unstable tax environment, not our cruddy public
schools, are what’s keeping more businesses from moving here.
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“Raising taxes is a sign of incompetence in a politician.
He/she cannot manage. A willingness to raise taxes is telegraphing such
failure.” – Grover Norquist, president, Americans for Tax Reform
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