Often the art of politics isn’t just about winning voters over to your side, but also peeling them away from your opponent. In two key races here, Nevada Democrats believe they’ve found the issue that will do just that — and with a somewhat unlikely assist from a faction of the GOP’s base to boot.
Being co-chairman of the international committee for the Council of State Governments comes with a few perks for Assembly Majority Leader Marcus Conklin, D-Las Vegas — such as an all-expenses-paid trip to Brazil. Conklin was joined on the trip by a small cadre of Nevada lobbyists.
A new report aimed at guiding Nevada out of its economic abyss is nothing state policymakers haven’t heard before. Nevada suffers from an underperforming education system and an underperforming health care system.
Publicly, Nevada’s most powerful Democrat, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, is remaining neutral in the primary between state Sen. Ruben Kihuen and former Rep. Dina Titus for the 1st Congressional District.
Ron Paul is having an I-told-you-so moment. Running for president four years ago, Paul spawned a movement of mostly young political outsiders with doomsday talk of deficit spending and manipulation of the monetary system leading to economic ruin.
She’s been labeled Dina Taxes and subjected to expensive ad campaigns likening her to U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi. But as former U.S. Rep. Dina Titus enters what could be a brutal Democratic primary fight, she will encounter an attack she’s never faced before: She’s too conservative.
The Nevada Republican Party’s decision to shift the date of the presidential caucuses appears to have done little to alter the candidates’ approach here — for the most part they still don’t care about the Silver State.
It has been repeated ad nauseam over the past year as lawmakers have debated redrawing legislative boundaries: Redistricting is the most political endeavor lawmakers ever undertake.
A foreclosure-riddled neighborhood in east Las Vegas was a fitting backdrop for President Barack Obama to discuss his plan to help some of the nation’s homeowners who have been financially decimated by the real estate crisis.
A new poll this morning indicates former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has solidified his lead in Nevada—the state he won four years ago after being the only candidate to fund a major campaign organization in the state.
Steve Jobs never sought a relationship with his biological father, a Reno casino manager and one-time Las Vegas resident. But it turns out the pair shared at least one handshake before they ever knew they were related, according to a new book out today by Walter Isaacson.
The wacky battle that Nevada Republicans are waging with other states over who will vote or caucus first, will likely determine how relevant the Silver State becomes in selecting the party’s presidential nominee.
The audience inside the Sands Expo and Convention Center hall served as an instant focus group of sorts on Nevada Republicans — who will play a key role in selecting the candidate to challenge President Barack Obama next year.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry refused Monday to engage in the fight over the Republican presidential primary calendar that has five of his opponent threatening to boycott the Nevada caucuses.
Billy Vassiliadis and Pete Ernaut have forged success by representing opposing forces
Monday, Oct. 17, 2011
As Sen. Harry Reid faced what some saw as an almost impossible bid for re-election last year, he turned to a trusted Democratic adviser to help guide his campaign: R&R Partners CEO Billy Vassiliadis.
When the Republican presidential field debated economic policy in New Hampshire last week, the word “foreclosure” was uttered once. One time. That’s unlikely to change when the GOP presidential candidates debate Tuesday in Las Vegas.
Boycotts are all fun and games until someone loses a presidential election. As the apparent silliness over the lower-tier presidential candidates boycotting the Nevada caucus escalated last week, the true motive became clear.
In announcing his long-awaited run for Congress on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-North Las Vegas, clearly staked his claim to what remains a borderless district.
The outcome of the conservative skirmish of the moment in the Republican presidential primary — a back-and-forth between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry on immigration — will have implications for either candidate should he make it to the general election, particularly in the battleground state of Nevada.
The forces have almost aligned. Republicans can almost taste it — a rebuilt party that can once again compete with the Democrats. A popular Republican governor in Carson City. The upper ranks purged of the scandal-ridden.
Democrats just don’t want to let go. The prospect of running a U.S. Senate campaign against a Republican marred by a sex scandal is just too tantalizing.
President Barack Obama’s recently proposed jobs bill puts Gov. Brian Sandoval in a bit of a pickle. The $447 billion package, which has been likened to a mini-stimulus, includes significant funding for cash-strapped states.
Northern Nevada experiencing drawbacks as city, county divorce over firefighter services
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011
When times are tight, the cry for consolidated government services grows louder. Witness North Las Vegas studying whether to consolidate everything from after-school programs to fire inspection services with Las Vegas.
Gov. Brian Sandoval and legislative leaders today announced appointments to a new state economic development board charged with overhauling Nevada’s effort to attract and grow new businesses.
Republican Mark Amodei chalked up a crushing victory in Tuesday’s special election for U.S. Sen. Dean Heller’s old House seat, routing Democrat Kate Marshall by 22 percentage points.
To Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., the fact that some health care policies she has advocated in Congress could benefit her husband’s kidney care medical practice is little more than happenstance in her broader efforts to ensure Nevadans have quality health care.
Kate Marshall resorted to an unusual tactic this week in her long-shot bid to become the first Democrat to win Nevada’s most Republican congressional district in the Sept. 13 special election: She publicly acknowledged that she’s a Democrat.
Somehow it has escaped almost everyone’s notice for decades that the father of the man who transformed Apple Inc. from a tech has-been to one of the world’s most valuable companies has been quietly living in Nevada.
When Todd Russell and Mark Amodei decided to buy a mining claim, it was almost a joke, a novelty, a way to own a piece of Nevada history, perhaps. The $500 sagebrush-covered plot is still inaccessible by road and hasn’t grown a cent in value.
Rep. Amodei doesn’t like Medicare or puppies. Students 4 Kate support the Democrat Kate Marshall in the special election “because Harry Reid told them to.” And Joe Heck’s Bangs says it right up front: “This is a parody account. If you don’t realize that, you’re an idiot.” Mock Twitter accounts, which are swiftly proliferating, are part of the campaign landscape in Nevada and elsewhere, with some mockers offering followers entertainment and others working to influence the outcome of an election.
In most campaigns, endorsements are a commodity with a swiftly declining value. Sure, they offer an opportunity for a news conference and give a candidate the chance to tout expanding support. In the end, however, they often do little to help a candidate over the finish line.
With the Ames straw poll — the first major barometer of the presidential primary field — now complete, perhaps Nevada will begin feeling the candidates’ love as they begin fine-tuning their early-state strategies. Or perhaps not.
The Republicans really don’t want to lose again. It’s not just about halting their special election losing streak, which has seen them go down to defeat in what should have been safe Republican districts.
o hear state Treasurer Kate Marshall tell it on the special election campaign trail, she has used her relatively obscure office as the holder of the state’s purse strings to shepherd Nevada through an economic crisis unlike any other in history.
Neglected for nearly eight years by Nevada’s top Republicans, the state GOP needs a savior. Depending on who emerges from next year’s primary, it could be the Republican presidential nominee.
Although most voters might not have noticed — or wanted to — the state’s U.S. Senate race is in full swing. Republican and Democratic candidates entered the race this year and are aggressively campaigning.
One Republican and one Democrat will vie in the September special election to replace U.S. Rep. Dean Heller, under a ruling today by the Nevada Supreme Court that rejected Secretary of State Ross Miller’s open ballot rules.
Now that Nevada is facing its first U.S. House vacancy, the state Supreme Court will decide how the next representative from the 2nd Congressional District will be chosen.
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who recently resigned as U.S. Ambassador to China to run for president, demonstrated his diplomatic tone today when asked about Republican congressional candidate Mark Amodei’s recent campaign ad that envisioned a world take over by the Chinese.
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman campaigned through Reno today, attempting to explain his position on storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain and putting Republican rival Mitt Romney on notice that he won’t cede Nevada to the man who won it four years ago.
When Gov. Jim Gibbons took his veto stamp and blazed a scorched-earth path through the bills passed by the 2009 Legislature, he was written off as a politically isolated governor making a show of the only authority he had left.