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EXIT, STAGE RIGHT…NO LEFT!!
This was freaking hilarious. But I’m not sure I can adequately describe
what happened in a way that'll do it justice.
As you may recall, I sent out a
Brushfire Alert on Sunday letting everyone know that I was driving up to Carson
City on Monday to hand-deliver the “Ax the Tax Now” petitions that over 800 of
you signed.
Well, in response Assemblyman Chris “Let’s Make a Deal”
Edwards accidentally hit the “Reply” key instead of the “Forward” key and
inadvertently sent me a message he clearly never expected me to see in which he
called me a “maggot.”
Again, I’m not known as the #1
Irritator of Liberals for nuthin’!
So here’s what happened…
I stopped by Assemblywoman Michele Fiore’s (R-Clark) office up on
the fourth floor to drop off the petition.
And Fiore’s office is right next to
Edwards’ office.
At the time, Edwards was in the
Ways and Means Committee room directly across the hall. And there’s a back door from which
legislators can exit the hearing room.
To get to his office, Edwards has to walk out of that back door, turn
right and walk past Fiore’s office.
So as luck and divine providence
would have it, just as I’m leaving Fiore’s office wearing my “maggot” shirt,
Edwards emerges from the back door while talking on his cell phone. He turns right to head for his office…and
sees me!
Folks, the look of horror on his
face was pure gold. It was like he
suddenly and unexpectedly walked into a really stinky fart.
The drama queen then stumbled
backward a half-step, almost tripping, and then bee-lined it in the other
direction down the hall.
Others standing next to me
witnessed the whole thing. We all just
burst out in laughter! Funniest thing I’ve
seen in quite a long time.
What a wimp.
Leading to this question: If the
Legislature installs a transgender bathroom in The Building, which one would
Edwards use?
AS THE CAUCUS TURNS
I gotta say, after being screwed royally by what’s passing
for “leadership” in the Republican Assembly Caucus before the start of the
session, conservatives have done their best to accept the reality of their
situation and have been publicly cooperative and generally muted about how
Speaker-of-the-Weak John Hambrick
and Speaker-in-Reality Paul Anderson
have managed (or mismanaged, as the case may be) the session so far.
But you can only push, pull, bully and threaten people so
far before they reach the breaking point.
Freshman Assemblywoman Victoria
Seaman (R-Clark) reached that point this week.
The long and short of it is this: Seaman had a bill that she
put a lot of time and effort into.
Judiciary Chairman Ira Hansen
(R-Washoe) killed it by not even bringing it up for a committee vote before the
deadline last Friday.
An exchange of angry words then occurred in his office
during which Hansen said to Seaman something to the effect of “If you were a
man I’d punch you in the face.”
Sexist!
I mean, if Hansen would punch drama-queen Assemblyman Chris “Let’s Make a Deal” Edwards in
the face, why should he treat Ms. Seaman differently just because she’s a
woman, right? Whatever happened to
gender equality?
But I digress.
In any event, Seaman privately took her beef with Hansen to
the entire caucus on Tuesday, reading a prepared statement detailing what
Hansen did and said.
Caucus leaders then assured her they were going to handle
the situation and put out a public statement condemning Hansen’s use of
threatening language and his general bullying behavior.
But as is par for this lame course, the statement put out
late Thursday night was nothing more than Grade A political pabulum that not
only didn’t yank up Hansen by the britches, but actually left open whether it
was Hansen or Seaman herself who perpetrated the inappropriate behavior!
In fact, I’m told Seaman wasn’t even given the courtesy of
seeing the release before the caucus leaders leaked it to Jon Ralston (D-UI), Nevada’s #2 liberal
blogger-with-a-taxpayer-
Realizing that playing nice in the sandbox and working
through “proper” channels didn’t get her doodley-squat, Seaman then issued her
own response to the caucus leaders’ response to Hansen’s behavior.
“Frankly, nothing short of a public apology from Chairman
Hansen for using such threatening and inappropriate language is acceptable,”
Seaman wrote. “And under the
circumstances I ask our caucus leaders to right this wrong by finding a way to
bring my bill to the floor of the Assembly for consideration.”
Something tells me the toothpaste is now out of the tube and
all the governor’s horses and all the governor’s men ain’t gonna be able to put
it back in.
By the way, Jonny Boy has the full text of all three
documents on his #2 liberal blog. You
can read them by clicking here.
DRIVE-BY MUTHINGS
The unemployment rate in March remains “stubbornly high” at
7.1 percent, says Bill Anderson,
chief economist for Nevada’s Employment Department.
Hey, here’s a GREAT idea! Why don’t we jack up taxes on Nevada’s
businesses to the tune of, oh, say, a billion dollars or so! Yeah, that’s the ticket!
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Democrats in the Senate, in a hissy fit to protect the
entrenched taxi cartel in Nevada, killed a bill to allow ride-sharing companies
like Lyft and Uber on Wednesday. State
Sen. James Settelmeyer (R-Douglas)
rightly pointed out that the vote amounted to Democrats serving as “prison
guards of the past.”
The failure of the bill can and should be laid squarely at
the feet of Senate Majority Leader Tax
Hike Mike Roberson for being, well, his arrogant self. The late Senate Leader Bill Raggio never would have lost a vote like this one.
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Like herpes, Ross
Miller just won’t go away.
The Democrat left as Secretary of State in January, having
lost his race for Attorney General last November to conservative Adam Laxalt. Yet an Annual PAC Registration Notice dated
April 10, 2015 that I just received was still signed, “Respectfully, ROSS
MILLER, Secretary of State.”
Um, how long does it take to change a template letter like this
in government? I know in business it
would take all of a New York second, not more than three months!
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Solar energy doesn’t work at night or on cloudy days. Wind energy is down in some Western states
“because of unusually weak winds” in the first two months of this year. Hydro-electric power is off thanks to the
ongoing drought.
Yeah, this “renewable energy” thing is a great idea, isn’t
it?
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failure.” – Grover Norquist, president, Americans for Tax Reform
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