Candidates thinking of running for state Senate seats have been told to prepare for an audition before Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio and the members of the Senate GOP caucus on September 22nd. Continue reading »
One of the more frustrating experiences I suffer every election cycle as a political pundit/consultant is hearing GOP candidates tell me how “vulnerable” certain Democrat incumbents are who back up their assessment with nothing more than “feelings.” Continue reading »
The following letter was emailed to Gov. Jim Gibbons this morning…. Continue reading »
As he prepares for a run for the seat of term-limited moderate state Sen. Randolph Townsend, conservative Assemblyman Ty Cobb (R-Reno) this week stepped down as chairman of the conservative Nevada Republican Study Committee (NRSC), turning the reins over to Assemblyman Ed Goedhart (R-Amargosa Valley). Continue reading »
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was Citizen Outreach’s keynote speaker at the first annual Conservative Leadership Conference we held in Reno back in 2007, and I received a letter from him this week addressing the issue of his recently-disclosed extra-marital affair. Continue reading »
After last November’s coronation of Barack Obama, liberal Democrats and moderate Republicans joyously did an ideological Snoopy Dance over the grave of fiscal conservatism. For example, columnist Sam Tanehaus declared: “What conservatives have yet to do is confront the large but inescapable truth that movement conservatism is exhausted and quite possibly dead.” Continue reading »
As I’ve written here before, a philosophical Battle Royale is shaping up in various state senate seats featuring bona fide card-carrying conservatives vs. what appear to be establishment-backed tax-hikes-are-on-the-table Raggio Republicans.
While not all of these candidates have announced – or even made a definite decision yet for that matter – here’s a possible right-vs-middle Survivor Series line-up for next June’s GOP primary: Continue reading »
From John Fund in Friday’s Political Diary: Continue reading »
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) released a new report this week which showed that Nevada’s generally low-tax/pro-business environment was a driving force behind our economic success from 1997 through 2007. As the Las Vegas Review-Journal noted in a story on Friday, ALEC found “that income taxes are more important to entrepreneurs than any other kind of fee or levy” when deciding whether or not to open or relocate a business here. Continue reading »
Nevada’s Legislature (thankfully!) only meets for roughly 120 days every other year. Let’s face it, they do enough damage as it is. Can you image the trouble we’d be in if those people were allowed to meet every year on a full-time basis. Oh, the horror! Continue reading »
