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NV AFL-CIO Labels State Party Leadership As ‘Lackluster, Incompetent, Ignorant’

February 15, 2023 4:05 pmFebruary 23, 2023 10:18 am

Chair of the Nevada Democratic Party, Judith Whitmer, suffered another blow this week. After Democratic State leaders called for her resignation, the powerful Nevada AFL-CIO which represents 120 unions comprised of 150,000 members, announced they are supporting Chairwoman of the Ways and Means Committee, Assemblyman Daniele Monroe-Moreno (AD-1) to lead...

Dem Leaders Call For State Party Chair’s Resignation

February 14, 2023 12:11 pmFebruary 20, 2023 10:50 am

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro and Democratic Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager are not sending Valentine’s cards to Nevada State Democratic Party Chair Judith Whitmer. Instead, they are calling for her resignation following a purge of forty percent of central committee members, including Steve Yeager, prior to the upcoming state...

OPINION: Taxpayers On The Hook For Millions To Rename Airport After Harry Reid

October 6, 2022 3:22 pm

When the Clark County Commission voted to rename the McCarran International Airport to honor U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, county leaders promised it wouldn’t cost taxpayers a dime. A review of public records, however, shows Commissioners Tick Segerblom, Justin Jones and the rest of the name-change advocates lied. Private funds currently cover only a...

Gov. Sisolak and Rep. Horsford Push for Rent Control

July 5, 2022 7:05 am

Flanked by red-clad Culinary Union activists, Governor Steve Sisolak, Rep. Steven Horsford (CD-4) and Commissioner Tick Segerblom made a campaign stop at a union rally in order to show their support for rent control. They uniformly blamed rising housing costs on “greedy” commercial landlords. Sisolak announced his attendance on Twitter:...

Clark County Cannabis Sales Fund Illegal Aliens Awaiting Deportation

April 25, 2022 10:58 amApril 26, 2022 3:34 pm

In 2016, Nevadans voted to legalize cannabis for recreational and medicinal use with an understanding that the tax revenue would be directed towards funding our worst-in-the-nation public education system. In the first year, the revenue for marijuana sales tax of $69 million surpassed alcohol sales tax revenue. In his first...

GOP Candidates Skewer Sisolak Over Mask Mandate Reversal

February 10, 2022 3:26 pmFebruary 16, 2022 1:04 pm

In a virtual press conference this morning, Governor Steve Sisolak cited “science” to immediately suspend the mask mandate in Nevada. Although Sisolak lifted the mask mandates, Sisolak refuses to relinquish his emergency powers and directives, telling Victor Joecks of the Las Vegas Review Journal that “The emergency is not over.”...

GOP Candidate Joey Gilbert Swings at Gov. Sisolak in Globe Interview

February 3, 2022 2:40 pmFebruary 4, 2022 7:48 am

In an interview with The Globe, Reno lawyer, former professional boxer, and gubernatorial candidate, Joey Gilbert, described himself as a “hard-nosed kid who is never going to quit.” As a newcomer to politics, he relies on his tenacity, smarts, boxing and military training and never-quit attitude to win the primary...