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The Conservative
Blueprint for Making Nevada Great Again
Chuck
Muth
July
30, 2015
A
painful political lesson was re-learned by Nevada conservatives during the 2015
legislative session, which produced the biggest blown opportunity by
Republicans in state history.
As
you’ll recall, following the Republican takeover of the U.S. House in 1994, the
conservative “Contract with America” was stopped cold in its tracks by moderate
Gumby Republicans in the Senate, reminding everyone that it’s not enough to simply
elect more Republicans; you have to elect better ones as well.
With
complete and total control of state government this session, GOP legislators
enacted the largest tax hike in Nevada’s history - including the creation of a
new gross receipts tax just like the one almost 80 percent of voters rejected
at the ballot box last November – failed to even have a hearing on campus carry
(Amanda’s Law) in the Senate, and blocked private school parents and
homeschoolers from participating in the state’s new Education Savings Accounts
(ESAs) unless they first force their kids into a public school for 100 days.
Among
other failures too long to list here.
Now
for the good news…
At
least eight viable, credible conservative challengers have already stepped
forward to run against tax-hiking State Assembly Republicans in primaries next
year. And more are on the way. In fact, it’s almost a slam dunk that every
one of the thirteen Assembly Republicans who voted for Gov. Brian Sandoval’s
obscene $1.4 billion tax hike will draw a serious primary next year.
Yes,
it will be tough to dislodge sitting incumbents, but some will clearly fall and
all will feel political pain.
And
the challengers will be aided by having a ready-made platform upon which to
build their campaigns: A “Contract with Nevada.”
Developed
by conservative Assemblyman Brent Jones and others, the 10-point proposal
promises voters that if they elect a conservative majority in the Assembly next
year, a series of real conservative reforms will be enacted - as opposed to the
tinkering around the edges this year’s crop of weak-kneed, jelly-spined
Republicans pushed through.
Right
out of the gate, point #1 calls for legislative repeal of Sandoval’s giga-tax
hike. And point #2 calls for removing “all
barriers to a parent’s right to have the dollars follow the student, including
those students already enrolled in private school or are homeschooled.”
The
Contract with Nevada also includes stopping Common Core, equipping police
officers with body cameras, photo ID for voting, elimination of Nevada’s “ObamaCare”
exchange, keeping boys’ rooms for boys and girls’ rooms for girls in public schools,
parental or court notification before an underage girl has an abortion, ending
government “no bid” contracts, and yes, passing Amanda’s Law.
You
can read the details for yourself at ContractWithNevada.com.
Nevada
GOP primary voters next June will have clear choices between Democrat-lite
incumbents and true Reagan Republican challengers. May the better Republicans win!
(Mr.
Muth is president of CitizenOutreach.com
and the publisher of www.NevadaNewsandViews.com. You can reach him at ChuckMuth.com)
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