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Gun rights advocates filed suit Monday to stop a background checks initiative from making it to the ballot.
The lawsuit, attached here, contains the usual allegations designed to knock off an initiative: Alleged infirmities with the petition's "description of effect," especially the use of the word "loophole."
The lead plaintiff, Don Turner, is a longtime gun rights advocate, head of the Nevada Firearms Coalition and heads a PAC set up to fight the background checks drive.
The background checks...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. The Weekly Insiders (and yours truly) set the general election baseline in key matchups
2. Smartest/dumbest moves and coming campaign developments
Consensus among this bipartisan group that Adam Laxalt's Yucca stuff was really dumb while Michael Roberson's pivot to the middle was very smart.
As for the races, I asked for baselines less than four months out:
LG: The group says solid Hutchison; I say lean Hutchison.
AG: Most say Miller is favorite; I...
In case you missed it (and you probably did), the primary season ended.
In case you care (and you should), the general election season has begun. Well, sort of.
As the lucky flee to their SoCal or Tahoe summer escapes and as everyone at home hopes politicians will leave them alone until Labor Day, here are THE 10 questions about the November election, which we need to complete before answering the more important one: Will Harry Reid run for re-election?
1. Will Prince Harry’s machine be enough...
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker came to town Saturday for a major fundraiser for Nevada Democrats.
This is part of the reason why the state GOP can't keep pace with the Party of Reid.
But I'm sure Nevada Republicans can get a rock star speaker soon. Is Niger Innis available?
Like many of us, the Reno Gazette-Journal's Ray Hagar is curious about Republican attorney general hopeful Adam Laxalt's legal career as he is running to be the state's top lawyer.
Laxalt has only lived in Nevada for about three years and not much is known about him, unlike his foe, Secretary of State Ross Miller. Hagar first asked on "Nevada Newsmakers" for Laxalt to release his military records and performance reviews, then wrote a follow-up piece that posted Thursday night. It is astonishing...
When the story was first posted on the Las Vegas Review-Journal's site on Thursday morning about a new study detailing how Cliven Bundy's standoff had encouraged radical right-wing extremists, the newspaper twisted it to comport to its-anti Bureau of Land Management world view: "National group criticizes BLM's handling of Bundy standoff."
As I pointed out, this was an outrageous distortion of what the Southern Poverty Law Center had done. Shortly thereafter, the RJ changed the online headline...