The following letter was emailed to GOP members of the Nevada State Assembly this morning…
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OK, would somebody please name one legislative candidate who ran last year on this platform: “Elect me and I’ll vote for a billion dollars worth of higher taxes.” Just one.
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What the “f-” is up with all the howling and yelping over the closure of F Street in Las Vegas?
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At the big Barack Obama and the Hollywood All-Stars fundraiser for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at Caesars Palace last night, the president referred to Nevada state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford (D-Las Vegas) as “an unbelievable warrior, an extraordinary young talent, soon to be on the national scene.”
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The following letter was sent this morning to each member of the Nevada Legislature…
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says he’s a good Republican; every bit as good as Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh. And as proof, I guess, Powell revealed on “Face the Nation” yesterday that in past presidential elections he voted for Democrats John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama. If that’s the definition of a “good” Republican, it’s no wonder I’m no longer a Republican.

“(Republican Senate Minority Leader Bill) Raggio didn’t merely consider raising taxes,” wrote Glenn Cook of the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Sunday, “he worked tirelessly to deliver the Republican votes needed to provide a constitutionally mandated two-thirds super-majority.” read more »

Since most of the tax hikes passed by the 2009 Legislature will expire after two years – and the federal stimulus money will be gone – we’ll be right back where we are today in 2011. And when it comes time to debate and vote on whether or not to renew this year’s billion dollar tax hike, the Las Vegas Review-Journal warns that Democrats will argue that to “keep the taxes in place really isn’t an increase because the levies will remain the same.”
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“For those who believe no tax increases were necessary and a billion dollars in cuts would have been preferable,” wrote Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston on Sunday, “the real travesty was the performance of many of the Legislative Building’s Republicans.”
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On Friday, the Nevada Legislature passed a cumulative billion dollar-plus tax hike on Nevada’s citizens, car owners, businesses and tourists. Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio could have blocked the final $781 million leg of the Mother of All Tax Hikes, but he and four other “Arlen Specter Republicans” voted with the Democrats and Carson City’s big-government lobbyists to stick it to each and every one of us.
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