HICKEY’S DRAFT DODGING STILL DOGGING HIM
“Niklas Putnam,” blogs the Reno Gazette-Journal’s Ray
Hagar, “who is the non-partisan, general-election opponent of Assembly
Minority Leader Pat Hickey, R-Reno,
is suggesting Hickey should apologize to veterans for refusing induction into
the U.S. Army back in 1970.”
In his autobiography, Hickey writes and admits that “draft
resisters like me soon became an afterthought to Washington. In the end, I was among the 360,000 who were
never formally charged.”
Instead, Hickey went on to become a high-ranking official in
Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification
Church, where he apparently perfected the art of pretending to be somebody he’s
not.
In fact, if Hickey owes anyone a modern-day apology, it’s to
Nevada Republican voters for pretending to be a conservative!
MUTH’S TRUTHS
---> Rick Perlstein is
a liberal “historian” who has written a new book about Sir Ronaldo Maximus – Ronald Reagan. Only, in Joe
Biden-like fashion Perlstein stole significant portions of his book from conservative
Reagan biographer Craig Shirley.
Click
here and see for yourself.
---> As secretary of state, Democrat attorney general candidate Ross Miller has reportedly accepted
over $70,000 worth of “gifts” from lobbyists, special interest peddlers and
major donors. While the gifts may have
been reported, the acceptance of such lucre makes him perhaps the most conflicted,
if not “bought,” elected official in Nevada.
---> The Las Vegas
Review-Journal reports that “A panel of lawmakers voted” last week “to
draft legislation that would reduce the reliance on student test performance
for a new teacher evaluation system from 50 percent to 40 percent.” This is part of the meaningless education
reform efforts that Nevada Gov. Brian
Sandoval in hyping in his re-election campaign.
---> While serving in the Legislature, former Assemblyman Mark “Sure Would” Sherwood walked into
a Carson City bar with a duck on his head.
The bartender asked, “How’d that happen?” The duck replied, “It started out as a wart on
my butt.” (h/t Jackie Martling)
---> Our friend Jon
Caldara of the Independence Institute in Colorado reports that his
organization has “delivered over 127,000 signatures to the Secretary of State's
Office to place a citizens' initiative on this fall's ballot” that, if passed, “would
require that, when school districts negotiate a teachers union contract, it be
open to the public.”
Is there a conservative Republican in the Legislature with
the testosterone to introduce a similar bill here in Nevada next session?
---> Kyle Roerink of
the Las Vegas Sun reports that “more
than 37,000 Nevadans” who signed up for Gov. Brian Sandoval’s Nevada-version of ObamaCare “will have to do so
again” after the Nevada health exchange collapsed from ineptitude a couple months
back.
Heckuva job, Sando!
---> Many of you will recall Dr. Ben Chavis speaking at our First Friday Happy Hour a little over a
year ago about his success in running the American Indian Charter School in
Oakland, California, only to have the teacher’s union and government-school
bureaucracy make unsubstantiated charges of financial shenanigans against
Chavis in an effort to close the school down.
Well, good news. According
to a story in the San Jose Mercury News,
“An Alameda County judge ruled that a high-performing Oakland charter school
can stay open and that the school district erred in revoking its charter in
2013 after it alleged that founder Ben Chavis funneled $3.8 million to himself
through school contracts.”
An extremely rare but welcome victory against the
anti-education teachers union!
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