Tuesday, October 8, 2013

MUTH'S TRUTHS 10/08/2013

IN THE NEWS

Excerpts from the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s “Political Eye” column by Sean Whaley on Monday…

Assemblyman Randy Kirner, R-Reno, may have incurred the wrath of conservative GOP activist Chuck Muth for his votes on taxes, but he still has a few friends, as a recent fundraising missive shows.  An invitation for a Nov. 5 event sponsored by “Women for Kirner” includes an impressive list of Nevadans backing the two-term lawmaker’s campaign for another term.

The hosts include former first lady Dawn Gibbons, former first lady Dema Guinn, former Lt. Gov. Lorraine Hunt-Bono, Assemblywoman Michele Fiore and Dale Raggio, the wife of the late state Sen. Bill Raggio, among about 80 other notable Nevada women.

Kirner has a primary opponent, Lisa Krasner, who describes herself as a community activist, former Reno city parks commissioner and instructor at both the University of Phoenix and Truckee Meadows College.  Krasner has the backing of former Gov. Jim Gibbons, who authored the constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote in the Legislature to raise taxes.


Kirner is one of several Republican state lawmakers expected to face anti-tax primary opponents because of their votes in the 2013 session.

Muth, who is a strong anti-tax advocate, has criticized Kirner for his support of a bill in the 2013 Legislature that gave the Washoe County Commission the authority to raise the sales tax to help rehabilitate older Washoe County schools. The bill passed without a two-thirds vote requirement since it punted the decision on whether to enact the tax hike to the county commission.

Mr. Whaley, of course, is referring to the Kirner Tax, the father of which is Assemblyman Randy Kirner (R-Kirner Tax) who doesn’t like you calling the Kirner Tax the Kirner Tax and would prefer you not go to http://www.KirnerTax.com or send anyone else there. #KirnerTax

BILBRAY-KOHN SWINGS AT HECK BUT HITS MANENDO

Democrat congressional candidate Erin Bilbray-Kohn has been beating up on her opponent, Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nevada) for supposedly not voting for a women’s rape center and domestic violence program.

Heck is “no advocate for women’s equality, choice, or health,” Bilbray-Kohn said in an interview with the Las Vegas Sun, saying his voting record is “very anti-choice, very anti-woman.”

But Citizen Outreach CEO Dan Burdish says the problem with this misleading attack is that those two programs totaled just $450,000 out of a $9.9 million pork bill…a bill that Democrat Nevada State Sen. Mark Manendo also voted against!

Does this mean Sen. Manendo is “no advocate for women’s equality, choice, or health” and is “very anti-choice, very anti-woman”?  And does this mean Mrs. Bilbray-Kohn will be opposing her fellow Democrat when he runs for re-election next year?

Inquiring minds wanna know.

Read more at http://erinbilbray.info/

FREE MARKET SUGAR

Apples to Apples, Sugar to Sugar - According to figures compiled by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the wholesale cost of sugar refined in the United States in October of 1980 – the month before Ronald Reagan was elected president – was 51.77 cents per pound.

That same pound of refined U.S. sugar in August 2013 – the latest month for which figures are available – was 25.50 cents per pound.

Is anyone out there buying cakes, cookies, candy bars or ice cream cones for half what they paid 33 years ago? I didn’t think so.

Read the full column at http://freemarketsugar.com/

STOP PATENT TROLLS

The International Trolling Commission - A 10-year legislative effort to modernize our patent system culminated with the passage of The America Invents Act of 2010. But when the law went into effect, it became clear how little it did to prevent so-called patent trolls from continuing to exploit the system.

Now reform is gaining momentum again in Washington, giving Congress and the White House a chance to get it right. For worthwhile reform, both parties need to recognize the flagrant abuses happening not only in courts but also at the International Trade Commission.

The core problem is patent trolls, which are typically entities set up for the sole purpose of holding U.S. patents, with no intention of ever using the patents to produce anything. Instead, they aggressively pursue legal action against companies that do make products. Patent trolls have a simple scheme: accuse companies of violating their patent, threaten them with costly court proceedings, and profit by forcing monetary settlements. Patent trolls file thousands of these lawsuits every year.

Read the full column at http://stoppatenttrolls.info/

NEVADA NEWS & VIEWS


READERS WRITE

“Chuck, you really shouldn't pick on Jon Ralston.  He may be a dick (actually, he IS a dick) and he may be an idiot (actually, he is--well, you get the point!), but he can serve a function, which may actually be GOOD for the Nevada GOP.

“Several days ago I received an e-mail from Michele Fiore asking me for a $1.00 contribution to help pay the filing fee for Sue Lowden to encourage her to get into the race for Lt. Governor.  Frankly, I was going to blow it off -- right up until I read in one of your daily e-mails about Ralston dumping on Sue Lowden!

“After reading that, I managed to recover Michele's e-mail, and responded, as she had requested, "Count me in!"  I also told her the exact reason WHY I had changed my mind, and not long afterward received an e-mail back from her acknowledging that Ralston may, indeed, be one of the Nevada GOP's biggest fundraisers in the 2014 elections!  I think she might just be right!”

- Muth’s Truths reader Steve Dennis

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“The state of California is a mess, and the super-majority of Democrats is not working.  I’ve been a lifelong Democrat and I have to switch over because it no longer serves the people of this great state. We need to have a new voice. We need to have a new direction, and we need to break the supermajority. It isn’t helping with jobs.  The last time I made a movie in California was seven years ago.  And that’s because we’re not being competitive.” – Democrat-turned-Republican actor/comedian Rob Schneider
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