Greg Hafen Archives - Nevada Globe

NV Dems Draft Legislation Allowing Felons To Register Voters

August 19, 2024 2:59 pmAugust 19, 2024 3:08 pm

A new report from the Nevada Current reveals that Democrats in the state legislature will push for legislation allowing felons to become “field registrars” to help register voters for Silver State elections. Currently those convicted of theft or fraud are barred from working in these positions. During a meeting last...

Lawsuits Filed To Block Ballot Initiative Aimed To End Gerrymandering

December 11, 2023 3:58 pmDecember 11, 2023 4:00 pm

After the Democratic majority in the Nevada legislature commissioned an unknown consultancy agency to redraw Nevada’s political maps, the majority hastily passed the new maps on a party line vote to the behest of progressive activists and republican lawmakers. Yes, you read that right. Progressive activists and Nevada republicans opposed...

NV Dems Awarded an ‘F’ For Gerrymandering Political Maps

October 20, 2023 12:09 pmOctober 30, 2023 11:56 am

12:41 PM: This article has been updated with comments from Assemblyman Greg Hafen. In 2021, The Globe reported that the Democratic majority in the state legislature, during a five-day special session, gerrymandered Nevada’s political maps into a Democratic supermajority. The political maps were drawn using data from the 2020 Census....

892 Bills On Legislative Docket

December 21, 2022 12:38 pmJanuary 2, 2023 12:30 pm

According to a tweet from the Nevada Republican Assembly Caucus, there are 892 bills moving their way through the process for the 2023 legislative session which begins February 6, 2023. A list of the bill draft requests can be found here. Two bills amend the state constitution and numerous bills...

Record 400 Guests Attend Nevada Republicans’ Jingle and Mingle Party

December 19, 2021 7:00 amDecember 20, 2021 2:16 pm

The Nevada Republican Party’s “Jingle and Mingle” party at the Ahern Hotel attracted 400-plus guests, so many that a volunteer told The Globe, “we had over 50 more people than we expected show up to purchase tickets at the door. I hope we don’t run of food.” Relying only on...