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UBER IS HERE!
Free-market ride-sharing company Uber - despite threats from
the taxi cartel and the bureaucrats they own - opened for business today in Las
Vegas, Reno and Carson City. Woohoo!
Folks, this is gonna be a political battle royale like you
haven’t seen in Nevada in a LONG, LONG time.
Bruce Breslow,
professional bureaucrat and Gov. Brian
Sandoval’s hand-picked apparatchik of the state’s Department of Business
and Industry, threatened Uber drivers in a statement to the Las Vegas
Review-Journal: “We’re going to enforce the law. We’re not going to get into an argument over
philosophies.”
Added one of Breslow’s *real* bosses, Brent Bell, president of Whittlesea Bell Transportation, “Just because
they have slick new technology doesn’t give them the right to completely and
arrogantly ignore the law.”
The law Bell is talking about? Probably the one where any new competitor to
the taxi cartel in this state has to get permission from the Taxicab Authority,
which the cartel all but owns, and PROVE there’s a “need” for their service.
In what other industry does a competitor have to “prove” market
need to the government before entering?
That’s insane.
Welcome Uber! Let the
games begin.
HARDY HEARTS HORNE?
Assemblyman William Horne
is one of the most liberal, anti-gun Democrat legislators in Carson City.
He’s now running to be a District Court judge in Clark
County. And on Thursday I heard a radio
ad supporting his candidacy done by lobbyist Joe Brown, a former Nevada Republican National Committeeman.
Worse, in the ad Brown says Horne is also endorsed by
Republican state Sen. Pete “Tax My Meat”
Goicoechea and Republican congressional candidate Cresent Hardy.
What the heck is up with that?
PAT HICKEY: TOUGH AS A PUDDING POP
In 2012, Democrat assembly candidate Andrew Martin was ruled by a judge ineligible to run for his
assembly district because he didn’t live in his assembly district. Go figure.
The Democrat majority in the Assembly seated him anyway,
without a peep of protest from GOP Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey.
A week ago, Democrat assembly candidate Meghan Smith was similarly declared ineligible to run in AD-34 this
year. When asked about whether or not
she would rule out the possibility of seating Smith anyway next session, Speaker
Marilyn Kirkpatrick replied, “Why would we do that?”
Indeed, since the court ruling came too late to have Smith’s
name removed from the ballot, there is certainly a possibility that Smith could
still “win” the election on November 4th even though a judge ruled
her as ineligible to run. And if she
does, Kirkpatrick and the Democrats are likely to seat her.
Having been burned once before and rolling over as a patsy
in the Martin brouhaha, surely Hickey won’t stand for it again, right?
Asked by the Las Vegas
Review-Journal “what he would do in Kirkpatrick’s place,” Hickey replied
cutely, “I’m not in Marilyn’s shoes.”
What a weenie.
That was the perfect opportunity to draw a line in the
sand. Something a true opposition leader
would do, especially when holding the moral high ground.
“We stood by and allowed such an injustice in 2013 because
it was the first time something like this had happened and, frankly, I’m a
wimp,” Hickey could have said, but didn’t.
“But Republicans will not allow such a thing to happen again in 2015 without
serious consequences, which will poison the entire legislative session. If Democrats unwisely choose this path, it’ll
be on their heads.”
Instead, Hickey said, “We want to see what happens in that
race before we have discussions about the outcome.”
What a weenie.
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!
CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?
I don’t like it when bad things are done to good
conservatives…especially when done by other good conservatives.
On Wednesday, a true education reform champion was attacked
by a conservative education blogger in a post that, unbelievably, failed to
disclose that the source of much of the negative criticism was the daughter of
the author!
That’s bad enough. But
much of the criticism was nothing more than unsubstantiated he-said/she-said
innuendo in which the target was never given an opportunity to respond to or
refute the attacks.
I’m hoping – PRAYING – that the very reputable conservative
organization that published this highly inflammatory hit piece will do the
right thing and simply take it down over the weekend so we can all go back to
frying bigger liberal government fish on Monday.
Otherwise, the defense will have no choice but to present
its case next week in the court of public opinion. And rest assured, the defense is loaded for
bear.
Oh, and yours truly will be serving as the defense attorney.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“The Nevada attorney general's race is a statistical dead
heat, according to polling done on behalf of the Republican Attorney General
Association. Democratic candidate Ross Miller took 40 percent of the polling
and Laxalt 39 in the poll conducted Oct. 13-15, based on telephone interview
with more than 500 ‘likely’ registered voters in Nevada.” – Reno
Gazette-Journal, 10/23/14
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