“A bill (SB 201) Washoe County officials are depending on to fund critical road projects this summer is stuck in the state Senate, being held by Democratic leaders as possible leverage over Northern Nevada Republicans in final budget negotiations,” reports Anjeanette Damon of the Reno Gazette-Journal. “Although it has held two extensive hearings on Senate Bill 201, which would allow the county commission to enact a voter-approved motor fuel tax increase, the Senate Taxation Committee has failed to vote it out to the Senate floor.”

Oh, crap. Here we go again.
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Here’s the latest example of why I contend there is no such thing as a “non-partisan” race.
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Democrats, aided and abetted by the GOP’s legislative leadership, are setting up Nevada’s citizens for yet another monster of a tax hike before this session is scheduled to end on June 1st. Only time will tell if it’ll be the Mother of All Tax Hikes.
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From a “Dear Colleague” letter by Assemblyman Ed Goedhart on February 8, 2009:
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As Jon Ralston noted in the Las Vegas Sun on Friday, Hawaii and Nevada are primarily tourist-based economies. And both of their legislatures this year passed room tax hikes on their states’ tourists.
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In what can only be described as a major embarrassment for a sitting elected official, state Sen. Maurice Washington lost in his bid to become the new Chairman of the Washoe County Republican Party on Thursday night, losing to a frontline grassroots volunteer named Michelle Beard.
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It was only days ago that GOP party leaders were touting and cheering the potential candidacy of an unknown Wall Street banker who hasn’t lived in the state since he was 17 moving back to run against Harry Reid next year.
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Have you noticed that ever since the Left found out that “tea-bagging” was a slang term for a sexual act (Google it yourself, please), they’re going out of their way to use the term? I’m…shocked.
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As readers will recall, Las Vegas tea party organizers were dragged through “Bureaucrat Hell” before we were issued a “permit” to hold a public rally in a public park which ended up costing us over $600. Now, exactly a week AFTER the Tea Party rally at Sunset Park, Sr. Recreation Program Administrator Darrell Rich inked the following letter to me:
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The largest tax increase in Nevada history was passed by the Nevada Supreme Court (sort of) back in 2003. The hodgepodge of new taxes and tax hikes that year came to $833 million. So that’s the mark legislators this year would have to exceed to go down in history as voting for the largest tax hike in Nevada history…..until the next largest tax hike in Nevada history is passed.
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