GOP Primaries Needed
to Get Rid of Bad Eggs & Bad Blood
By
Chuck Muth
September
24, 2015
It's
not just Nevada that has a gaggle of very bad Republicans in its
Legislature. Missouri just witnessed a
sellout of philosophical principle that ranks right up there with the 2015
GOP-controlled Nevada Legislature.
On
the other hand, California Republicans, surprisingly enough, are the ones
setting the good example of what happens when you focus on electing better Republicans
instead of just more of them.
California,
like Nevada, requires a 2/3 super-majority vote of the Legislature to pass any
tax hikes. But unlike Nevada’s majority-party
Republicans, the minority-party Republicans in California stuck together and
blocked multiple efforts to raise taxes in their just-concluded session.
Shamefully,
it was a Republican governor and the Republican-controlled Nevada Legislature
that just passed the largest tax hike in our state history, including a gross
receipts tax very similar to the one 80% of Nevada voters rejected at the
ballot box last November.
It
should be noted, however, that California Republicans “pulled a Nevada” back in
2009. Their RINO leaders caved and voted
to grow government and increase taxes.
Which led to a serious intra-party war that resulted in the party’s
legislative leaders being ousted and multiple bitter GOP primaries.
It
took a couple of election cycles, but the bad Republicans were eventually
culled from the herd and now Republican legislators are all rowing in the same no-new-tax-hikes
direction.
Meanwhile,
over in Missouri the Republican-controlled Legislature recently passed a
right-to-work bill similar to the one Nevada already has. Right-to-work means employees can't be forced
to join a union in order to get a job.
Alas,
the state's Democrat governor vetoed the bill because, well, because the
Democrat Party is a wholly-owned subsidiary of organized labor. So his veto was really no surprise.
Unfortunately,
in the vote to override the governor’s veto – which required a 2/3
super-majority vote rather than a simple majority - Republicans came up 13
votes short thanks to 20 RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) who voted with all
but one of the Democrats to kill the bill.
Those
20 Republicans now have political bulls-eyes on their backs and many will draw
primary opponents. Hopefully, many of
them will lose.
The
same can be said for the 21 tax-hiking Republican legislators in Nevada who
voted for Gov. Brian Sandoval’s $1.4 billion tax hike. Almost all of them have already drawn
credible primary challengers, and four have called it quits rather than face
outraged taxpaying voters in 2016.
This
is going to be an ugly primary season for Nevada Republicans. But as Clemenza so rightly pointed out in The
Godfather, “That's all right. These things gotta happen every five years or so. Helps to get rid of the bad blood.”
Indeed,
a political blood-letting among Nevada Republicans is long overdue. Let the RINO hunt begin!
(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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