NEVADA - CITIZENS OUTREACH 06/07/2015

WE DECIDE COALITION UPDATE On Monday, I’m meeting with an experienced, highly-successful professional signature-gathering firm to discuss his proposal for gathering signatures for a possible referendum on the SandRINOvistas $1.5 billion tax hike. Like opening a bank, all it takes is money.  I will NOT attempt a volunteer signature-gathering operation again – a lesson learned the hard way with the unsuccessful effort to recall Speaker-of-the-Weak John Hambrick earlier this year. If we can’t do this repeal project right, I’m not doing it at all. That said, we have three former conservative state legislators – two who are still currently serving in office – who have agreed to co-chair the committee to get the referendum on the ballot…if the money is there. As for timing, the Constitution stipulates that the referendum committee “shall file the copy not earlier than August 1 of the year before the year in which the election will be held.” That would be this coming August 1, 2015. Which means we have a minimum of the next two months to get organized and raise the money for signature-gathering.  And while I don’t know exactly how much it would cost/signature, I’d estimate it to be in the range of $4-6.  So take the average of $5 and shoot for 60,000 signatures and we’re looking at needing around $300,000 for the signature-gathering portion alone. As opposed to the estimated $229 million-plus the new gross receipts tax is going to cost Nevada businesses.  Or the estimated additional $190 million it’s going to cost businesses to pay the increased Modified Business Tax. Or the estimated additional $81 million businesses will pay in the jacked up business license fee. Or even the additional $192 million that smokers are going to have to cough up to pay the new $1 per pack tax hike. If this referendum is successful, the $300,000 will be cheap at the price! Back to the mechanics… The deadline for submitting signatures, unless the Constitution has been amended by a court decision that I’m not aware of, is “not less than 120 days before the next general election.”  Since the next general election will be in November 2016, the deadline for collecting and submitting the referendum signatures will be roughly around the end of June 2016 – almost an entire year. So a referendum on repealing Sandoval’s $1.5 billion tax hike – including the new gross receipts tax – is absolutely doable.  All it takes is money. And a lot of angry taxpayers! If you haven’t joined the “We Decide Coalition” of Nevadans who would like to see Sandoval’s $1.5 billion tax hike placed on the 2016 ballot, please join us today online by going to: www.WeDecideCoalition.com Conservatively yours, Chuck Muth President Citizen Outreach Nevada's #1 Irritator of Liberals and RINOs Citizen Outreach is a non-profit, non-partisan grassroots lobbying organization which promotes limited-government public policies and legislation