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DRIVE-BY MUTHINGS
As noted in yesterday’s Muth’s Truths, the situation in the
GOP Assembly caucus changes from hour to hour, not day to day. Indeed, just a couple hours after reporting
that conservative Assemblywoman Michele
Fiore had been removed as Chair of the Taxation Committee…she was
reinstated.
And, I’m told, conservative Assemblywoman Victoria Seaman will remain on the
Taxation Committee, as well.
That said, the “Collaborator Caucus” of moderate Republicans
are still moving forward with the “nuclear option,” in which a half-dozen of
them would vote on opening day of the Legislature with the 17 Democrats to oust
Assembly Speaker-designate John Hambrick
and replace him with moderate Assemblyman Paul
Anderson in a “coalition” governing body.
The “Dirty Half-Dozen” that I’m hearing are former Minority
Leader Pat “The Appeaser” Hickey
(naturally), Assemblyman James Oscarson,
Assemblyman Randy “Kirner Tax” Kirner,
Assemblyman Chris Edwards,
Assemblywoman Melissa Woodbury, and
Assemblyman Lynn “The Bug Man” Stewart.
But there may well be others, including freshman Assemblymen
Derek Armstrong and Stephen Silberkraus, both of whom have
been on Team Hickey/Anderson from the beginning.
BTW, I’ve heard reports that Oscarson and Edwards, both
Hickey/Anderson supporters, are telling people they’re not part of the “nuclear
option” effort. Sorry, but neither has
proved to be trustworthy in this fouled up business. So until I see something in writing…
Ditto Hickey and Kirner.
Both have reportedly told the Washoe County GOP chairman that they
wouldn’t support any effort to elect a Democrat Speaker…HOWEVER…they refuse to
say whether or not they’d join with the Democrats to knock out Hambrick and
install Anderson. That’s apparently a
nuclear option they can both live with.
For her part, Fiore fired a shot across the bow of every possible
member of the “Collaborator Caucus” on Thursday with this email…
For the record, a recall of state legislators is not allowed
to commence until 10 days after the start of a session. That would be February 12, 2015 for anyone
who joins Hickey and Anderson in going nuclear.
And it won’t take much to get a recall on the ballot for a
special election. Thanks to the
exceptionally low turnout in last month’s general election, here’s how many recall
signatures would be needed in certain districts…
And here’s the ironically fun part: If the GOP collaborators
collaborate with Democrat assembly members to kick Hambrick out of the Speaker’s
chair, it would be Democrat voters who would be most interested in signing a
recall petition and voting with conservative Republicans to oust a GOP
incumbent.
Talk about what goes around coming around!
FYI, although former Assemblyman Wes Duncan was originally in the pro-Hickey/Anderson camp, he has
officially resigned his seat to go work for our new conservative Attorney
General, Adam Laxalt. He is no longer part of the matrix and folks
should stop emailing him about this situation.
The leading candidate to replace Duncan, by the way, is
rumored to be former Taxi Commish Charles
Harvey, a black Republican with reportedly solid conservative street cred. I wonder where he stands on Uber?
Back to the Fiore flap…
There was talk that her ouster was because she’s a
women. No it wasn’t. And I wish she hadn’t played the “gender card”
the way Democrat Erin
Bilbray-without-the-Kohn did in her failed congressional campaign.
Look, the long knives are out for Fiore, not because she’s a
woman, but because she’s an outspoken, unapologetic conservative who will drive
the governor and the rest of the GOP establishment bonkers as they try to pass
their billion dollar tax hike next year.
They’re also gunning for Fiore because Fiore has been so
successful in organizing and managing a coalition of freshman conservatives who
have been successful in first ousting Hickey as caucus leader, and then
stopping Anderson from becoming Speaker-designate.
And Jon Ralston,
Nevada’s #2 liberal blogger-without-a-TV-show after tonight, is after Fiore
because Fiore treats him like the annoying pest he is instead of bowing at his
feet, cowering in his presence and kissing his caboose.
These people would be going after her even if she was a man.
Just ask Assemblyman Ira
Hansen.
COLLABORATOR CAUCUS CONTACTS
Nye County Republican Party Chairman Bill Carns sent out an email “Call to Action” Wednesday night about
the possibility that some GOP assembly-critters might vote with the Democrats and
pull the trigger on the “nuclear option.”
Ronald Reagan
once said, “When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the
heat."
Go get ‘em, gang!
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
"Budget passed 219-206.
Who won? Hint: 162 Rs voted yes.
Only 52 Ds did. 139 Ds voted no, only 67 Rs did. We won the battle. Whiners are unhappy we did
not win everything at once. It will take more work. Why would anyone believe that the Ds who
control the Senate and the White House would give us everything we want? When you run a play in football and get
stopped at 3 yards, that is not a loss or
a compromise. It is progress.” – Grover
Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform, on the House “Cromnibus” bill on
Thursday
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