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DRIVE-BY MUTHINGS
Busy night Thursday…especially for an old guy accustomed to
turning in around 9 o’clock!
First there was a reception for Nevada State Sen. Tick Segerblom (D-Las Vegas) at his
home in which he was feted for his work on the state’s medical marijuana
dispensary bill.
My 14-year-old daughter – attired in a cute but not too
revealing (!) black cocktail dress borrowed from her mom - went with me. Kristen
sat next to Sen. Segerblom the day his bill actually passed in the Senate last
session and they became fast friends.
Interestingly, there were a LOT of Republicans at the event,
including conservative Assemblywoman Michele
Fiore, the “28th Vote” that allowed Tick’s bill to pass in the
Assembly. Apparently marijuana is the bipartisan
drug of choice that unites otherwise warring political clans.
From there we joined my friend and political consultant Steve Brown and a dozen of his friends
from L.A. at Tao for dinner before we all tried to sneak Kristen into the Latin
Grammies after-party at the XS Nightclub at the Wynn. No dice.
She got “carded” and kicked out.
Somehow I forgot to get her a Mexican consular card showing that she was
21.
Lousy, stinking government nannies! It’s not like the kid was drinking or
gambling or smoking a cigar. She was
with her dad for a rare opportunity at a really cool, star-studded party – something,
as a kid, she would remember and tell her own kids about sometime down the road
(in about 40 years!).
Then again, this was yet another early-age lesson about the
dangers of an all-powerful government taking decisions away from individuals
and investing them in “Big Brother.” So
I guess some good will still come out of this otherwise not-so-fun experience.
The hardest part of the evening, though, was getting enough
caffeine in me through tiny cups of cappuccino and energy drinks to stay awake
through the midnight showing of the new “Hunger Games” movie which my new
teenage daughter – Jenna, 13 today – insisted upon for her birthday.
But enough of that. Back
to politics…
Both Rep. Joe Heck
(R-Nev.) and Rep. Mark Amodei
(R-Nev.) have now ruled out a run for the U.S. Senate against Harry Reid in 2016. *IF* Reid runs for
re-election, which I’m predicting he won’t.
That leaves conservative Republican Las Vegas City
Councilman Bob Beers as the only
active GOP candidate for the race unless/until Reid announces his
retirement. Then, and only then, will
Gov. Brian Sandoval (R&R-Advertising) also jump into the race – providing his
political handler, Pete Ernaut, lets
him.
Guess who’s coming to lunch?
I attended an LVGEA forum on education yesterday at the MGM
Grand Conference Center – in which no real new ground was broken - mostly because
none of the panelists were movement conservatives but, rather, representatives of
the teachers union and more-money-for-education politicians, including Senate
Majority Leader Moderate Mike Roberson
(RINO-
But the real fun part for me was being seated at the “Media”
table right next to my ol’ buddy…
Jon Ralston,
Nevada’s #2 liberal blogger!
Reporter Amber
Phillips does a post-election autopsy of Democrat congressional candidate Erin Bilbray-without-the-Kohn’s excuse-ladened
campaign corpse which is eerily reminiscent of the failed U.S. Senate campaign
of Republican Sharron Angle four
years ago.
It includes a reference to the “long Twitter arguments with
conservative Nevada Republicans about whether Heck's team could put yard signs
in her neighbor's yard.”
Gee, I wonder who they’re talking about! You can read the full article by clicking
here.
Assemblyman Randy “Kirner
Tax” Kirner (RINO-Kirner Tax) has earned himself the reputation of being
the biggest crybaby in the Legislature. This
guy will whine about any story of any kind from anybody that is not to his
liking. He’s that annoying spoiled kid
we all grew up with who literally took his ball and went home if he didn’t get
his way.
So it really was no surprise when the Father of the Kirner
Tax when to court this week and obtained a temporary injunction against a
requested recount by his Republican challenger, Lisa Krasner - who he defeated on election day by just 11 votes.
Fortunately, Kirner lost in court on Thursday. The recount process will commence this
afternoon. Here’s hoping for a miracle
and this “girlie man” also loses the recount!
The long knives are out for Assemblyman Ira Hansen (R-Reno) over provocative statements he made and wrote
as long as 20 years ago as an opinion columnist and conservative radio
talk-show host. The overwrought frothing
by liberal activists such as unionista Andrew
Barbano and the NAACP on the internet, social media and email is almost
comical to behold.
Do you know what this is?
It’s just another high-tech lynching of a conservative leader. The left has been pulling this crap for
decades. It even has its own verb: “borking.”
Problem is, a lot of Republicans fall for this every
time. Why, I wouldn’t be surprised if
some fair-weather pansy (is that “homophobic”?) Republicans have already
advised Hansen to throw in the towel and resign. Speaking of which…
Conservative-loathing political consultant Mike Slanker – writing under the pen
names of “Brian Sandoval” and “Dean Heller” - issued completely
unnecessary and chillingly hyperbolic statements yesterday condemning Hansen’s
exercise of free speech and thought. And
that is FAR more outrageous and dangerous than anything Hansen ever wrote or
said.
By the way, has anyone else ever heard the phrase “sticks
and stones can break your bones but names will never hurt you,” or is that something
crazy my mom and dad taught just me and my brothers and sisters?
From the Department of Unsolicited Advice: If whoever is
advising Speaker-designate Hansen thinks liberals will drop it and this story
will blow over in a couple of days if they just don’t comment on it, I have
three words for them: “chickens for checkups.”
When these people smell blood in the water, they’re like dogs
on a bone. So this is no time to “bunker
down.” This is but the first test to see
if Hansen has the stones to fight back when punched in the nose.
This is, as Joe Biden
once so eloquently put it, “gird your loins” time.
This is no time to “pull an armadillo” by rolling over and
playing dead.
It’s honey badger time, baby!
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“The Obama administration admitted Thursday that it
over-reported the number of people who signed up for medical coverage under the
President’s signature health care law by double-counting, in its initial
reported numbers, hundreds of thousands of people who enrolled in dental
insurance plans.” – New York Daily News, 11/20/14
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