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DRIVE-BY MUTHINGS
Sometimes it’s NOT better late than never.
That especially goes for the National Rifle Association
(NRA), which sent out an action alert on Sunday urging members to contact
Senate Judiciary Chairman Greg Brower
and urge him to vote for campus carry…the day AFTER Brower announced he had
killed campus carry for this session.
Lovely.
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On the exact same day that the Republican-controlled Nevada
Senate failed to pass a campus carry bill, “the Republican-controlled Texas
Senate voted to allow the licensed carrying of concealed handguns in most state
university buildings.”
Texas Republican Gov. Greg
Abbott has said “he would sign any bill that expands gun rights on campus.”
Nevada “Republican in Name Only” Gov. Brian Sandoval has refused to support campus carry.
Nevada Republicans never blow an opportunity to blow an
opportunity.
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Volunteer writer(s) on gun rights issues for a new blog I’m starting, with a
particular focus on Nevada.
Send email expressing your interest to me at chuck@citizenoutreach.com
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Only three Republicans in the State Senate voted on Monday
against the largest tax hike in Nevada history, including the creation of the
new gross receipts tax: Sens. James
Settelmeyer, Don Gustavson and Pete
Goicoechea.
The tax-hiking GOP senators were Sens. Tax Hike Mike Roberson, Ben Kieckhefer, Greg Brower, Joe Hardy, Scott
Hammond, Becky Harris, Mark Lipparelli and Patricia Farley.
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Sen. Joe Hardy
said today that you can vote for the largest tax hike in Nevada’s history,
including the new gross receipts tax, and still be a Republican.
True. But you can’t
be a conservative.
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You know, it wouldn’t have been so bad for the GOP “leaders”
in the Assembly to have caved in on the tax hikes if they at least would have
insisted on one thing: Re-districting so they’d have a chance to retain their
majority next year.
These boobs couldn’t even do that.
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After Victor Joecks
of the Nevada Policy Research Institute pointed out in legislative testimony
that all this new money won’t fix education the way liberal blogger Jon Ralston (D-UI) claims it will,
Ralston called him a “jerk.”
What a jerk.
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If the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce isn’t the most useless,
spineless business organization in all of Nevada, I’d love to know what is.
After sitting on the sidelines watching the tax hike parade
go by the entire session rather than standing up and saying “No,” it issued a
long-winded, butt-covering press release on Monday slapping itself on the back
for being a spineless, gutless wonder.
Gotta love this little excerpt…
First, the very premise is BS. We ARE funding education. Funding the heck out of it! It’s just that the government is misspending
the money. And no matter how often the
likes of liberal blogger Jon Ralston
regurgitate it, all this extra money won’t fix education. Period.
Secondly, it’s clear that the voters themselves are better
protectors of Nevada’s business community than either the Chamber or state
legislators. Voters, you’ll recall,
overwhelmingly REJECTED a new gross receipts tax last November at the
ballot. The Legislature just created
one.
How many times does the Chamber have to capitulate to the
forces of government expansion on the backs of small businesses before those
small businesses wake up, smell the coffee and quit the organization?
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Mary Lau, head of
the Retail Association of Nevada, isn’t the only business lobbyist whose
members got scorched by passage of Gov. Brian
Sandoval’s gross receipts tax. Paul Enos, head of the truckers’
association, also got burned. But like
Lau, it serves him right.
Both have been aiding-and-comforting moderate legislative
Republicans for years, embracing the appeasement strategy once described by Winston Churchill as “one who feeds a
crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
Indeed, even up to the day before the vote, Enos was quoted
in the Las Vegas Review-Journal as saying, “We support two-thirds of the
revenue package.” The other third was
the gross receipts tax.
So he was happy to screw everybody else over; he just didn’t
want his members to get screwed over with the new gross receipts tax.
Well, Paul, congratulations.
The croc may have eaten you and your members last…but eat you it did.
Serves you right.
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If Enos, Lau and other business lobbyists who helped get
just about every business in Nevada screwed this session want to do some
penitence and try to undo the damage they hath wrought, they’d pony up the
money to get the amount of signatures required to put this entire tax package –
including the gross receipts tax and making the “sunsets” permanent – on the
ballot next year as a referendum.
Don’t hold your breath waiting.
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Happy that Education Savings Accounts – a school voucher
derivative – passed the Legislature this session, but disappointed that the
bill screws working parents who have already struggled and made serious and
difficult working and budget choices in order to send their kids to a private
school. They are NOT allowed to
participate in the ESA program.
Neither are those practicing the ultimate in parental
involvement: homeschoolers.
A huge opportunity to take care of those who have already
made tremendous sacrifices to assure a quality education for their children
blown by Republicans who never blow an opportunity to blow an opportunity.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“Raising taxes is a sign of incompetence in a politician.
He/she cannot manage. A willingness to raise taxes is telegraphing such
failure.” – Grover Norquist, president, Americans for Tax Reform
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