SILVER STATE CONFIDENTIAL 05/20/2015

DRIVE-BY MUTHINGS OK, so the cops learn about a convention in Las Vegas over the weekend featuring medical marijuana vendors.  As such, they suspect they’ll find some people there who are using the drug unlawfully.  Sure enough, they stalk the place and bust a dozen people who were breaking the law. Sounds like profiling to me. But more importantly, if it’s genius police detective work to hang out at a place where it’s highly likely they’ll find some people who are breaking the law and haul them off, why don’t they do the same thing at all these illegal immigration rallies? *   *   *   *   * Nevada Republican Rep. Joe Heck is reportedly 95% sure to get into the U.S. Senate race to challenge Democrat Sister Catherine Cortez-Masto’s bid to fill Harry Reid’s sixth term.  Some seem to think Heck’s final decision depends on what Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval ultimately decides to do about the race, but I suspect Heck couldn’t care less what “America’s Worst Governor” does…and would gladly face off against him in a GOP primary. Of more significance and importance is what the only announced GOP candidate in the race, conservative Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Beers, does if Heck jumps in. *   *   *   *   * The state Senate has now approved an incumbent-protection bill sought by Gov. Brian Sandoval and the GOP establishment that would move Nevada’s primary elections from June to February.  That would mean all those mean campaign mailers and hit pieces will start hitting your home right around the holidays in December. Oh, joy to the world! All of the Democrats in the Senate voted against the “Christmas primary.”  If all of the Democrats in the Assembly also vote against it, we’ll need only four common sense conservative Republicans to kill this very, very, VERY bad idea. Uh-oh. *   *   *   *   * Although I stopped chronicling Grammar King Jon Ralston’s typos and grammar mistakes long ago – as it turned out to be close to a full-time job – I still enjoy watching him screw up by doing the same things he slams others for doing, such as this twit-tweet he put out on Wednesday morning… “Even the newspaper’ gets iit on Uber:” What’s an “iit”? FAMOUS LAST WORDS “Making Uber legal and subjecting its riders to a new tax should be two separate policy questions.  Would lawmakers even consider taxing taxicab rides if the Uber bill weren’t before them?  Probably not.  Uber simply happened to provide senators with an opportunity to create more state spending.” – Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial, 5/20/15 HOW TO SUBSCRIBE Silver State Confidential is an email newsletter on Nevada politics, public policy and current events published (usually) daily by Chuck Muth, Nevada's #1 Renegade Conservative and the man voted "Most Likely to Irritate Liberals!"  Click on the link below for subscription information…