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WHAT’S UP IN DISTRICT COURT 8 RACE?
I’m having a really tough
time getting a handle on this District Court Department 8 race between the
incumbent Doug Smith and his
challenger, Christine Guerci-Nyhus.
I have two good conservative
Republican lawyers who I often rely on for recommendations in such races. One tells me Smith is “one of our best
judges.” The other says Smith is “the
worst of the worst.”
Then you have the liberal Las Vegas Sun endorsing Guerci-Nyhus,
but you also have the usually conservative Las
Vegas Review-Journal editorializing that Smith is one of five incumbents “who
have no business running for office.”
On the other hand, Smith has
been endorsed by both Clark County Republican Party Chairman Dave McKeon and Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald – who almost never
agree on anything - as well as the conservative Citizens for Responsible
Government.
I am truly perplexed on who
to support in this race. If any of you
have any additional helpful information, please shoot it my way.
THE LIBERAL OR THE LIAR?
The incumbent in State
Senate District 20, Michael Roberson,
ran in 2010 as a fire-breathing conservative.
In fact, he signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge on Tax Day at a tea
party rally!
He then sold out
conservatives in the 2013 legislative session by breaking his Pledge and
supporting the extension of the “sunsets,” taxing the Internet, and proposing a massive $600
million-plus tax on our state’s mining industry.
Worse, Roberson went on to
actively discourage, and outright oppose, conservative Republican candidates in
primaries this year, as well as forbidding any of his hand-picked recruits from
signing the Taxpayer Protection Pledge.
Now I know a lot of you believe
in your soul of souls that any Republican is better than any Democrat. But in the immortal words of John Wayne to Bruce Dern in The Cowboys,
“I can’t stand a liar.”
In the RJ’s Voter Guide on
Sunday, Roberson started off by saying, “Excessive taxation is bad for our
economy.” Yet he voted to extend the
sunsets, tax the Internet, and continues to beat the drums for a mining tax
hike.
Robo-Taxer went on to state
that “As Senate Minority Leader, I have worked…to hold the line on tax
increases.” But that’s patently untrue,
as he voted to extend the sunsets, tax the Internet, and proposed that massive
tax hike on mining.
Roberson then bragged that
he “sponsored legislation to cut Nevada’s car registration fees,” which he
described as “sky-high” on “working people.”
But the truth is he voted to extend the “sunsets,” which includes a hike
in those “sky-high” vehicle registration fees.
Roberson went on to claim
that he “led the fight to pass legislation that cut payroll taxes for all
Nevada businesses and eliminated the payroll tax for 75 percent of Nevada
businesses.” But that’s not true
either. Those changes were made within
the governor’s budget. Roberson had
nothing to do with it.
In other words, the guy is,
and there’s just no polite way to put it in this case, a serial liar. And that includes the lies he told about his
conservative GOP primary opponent back in the spring.
So if the Democrats had run
a moderate candidate against him, I’d have been comfortable endorsing an honest
“Blue Dog” Democrat over a lying sack of…er, suds any day of the week. But they didn’t. Instead they put up a woman, Teresa Lowry, who says “it’s time
corporations in Nevada, who receive billions of dollars in earnings, begin to
pay their share so our kids and families get the funding they deserve.”
Pure, unadulterated liberal
pap.
So while there’s no way I
can support the dishonesty represented by Roberson, there’s also no way I can
support yet another ill-informed Democrat Bolshevik with no understanding of,
let alone appreciation for, the
revenue-producing, job-creating contributions businesses and entrepreneurs make
in Nevada.
So my recommendation to
conservatives in SD-20: Vote for "None of the Above" by refusing to vote for
either Roberson or Lowry. This is still
Roberson’s race to lose, but why participate in encouraging even more dishonesty
in politics? Plus, you’ll sleep better
at night!
CHUCK’S 2014 ELECTION PICKS
For the complete, up-to-date
list of candidates I’m supporting this year, Click here
DRIVE-BY MUTHINGS
The Blaze: “Try not to cry
after you see this kid with Down syndrome return a kickoff.” Awesome! Click
here
In Nevada, licensing
confusion among elected officials at various levels of government reigns
supreme for Medical Marijuana Establishment (MME) applicants. Click
here
ARE THEY SMARTER THAN 9TH
GRADERS?
Reno area high school
students and local business leaders will face off in a math competition on
Thursday Oct. 23 at 6:00 at McQueen high school. The event is a fund
raiser for Northern Nevada Math Club. The brave adults are: Channel
2 News Meteorologist Mike Alger, Univ. of Nevada Economics Professor Mark
Pingle, former Reno mayor candidate and entrepreneur Robert Avery,
land use planner John Krmpotic, ACE Charter school math teacher Bret
Scoggin, and Professional Engineer and Senior Consultant at Global Risk
Consultant Amanda Norris. Visit www.NNVMath.org for details.
REMINDER: VOTE TODAY IN $100,000 TEACHER
CHALLENGE
Remember, you can (and
should, please) vote every day for Brenda Moynihan in her
effort to secure a $100,000 grant for C.T. Sewell Elementary School in
Henderson.
CLICK HERE to vote. And remember, you can vote every day until
the deadline on November 30th.
You know, just like in Chicago elections!
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