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Clark County, which is subverting the intent of the law by awarding medical pot licenses before the state can act, can choose locations but not who gets into the business.
That's the word Monday from state officials in a memo sent out to a listserv and celebrated by state medical pot guru Tick Segerblom, the senator who sponsored the legislation. "This was the original intent of SB 374," he told me via Twitter. I previously reported that Clark County had moved ahead of the state.
The key part...
Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. The GOP voter registration inroads – small but significant? And a look at Latino registration in Clark County
2. Flores gets a new campaign manager
3. Campaign cash predictions
4. The Weekly Insiders on Erin Bilbray’s poll and Jay Brown
5. Smartest/dumbest moves and coming campaign developments
With less than a week left before early voting, some of the key campaign moves to watch for:
►Will Team Reid try to lift Sue Lowden, or do the Dems...
A few years ago, I walked into the Stirling Club bar at the exclusive Turnberry Towers. Jay Brown was already there, waiting for me.
The lobbyist extraordinaire had invited me to discuss a column I had written that he said he could persuade me was wrong. As I approached, I noticed in the center of the table was a bill – a $100 bill.
“If I can’t convince you by the end of this conversation that I’m right, you can put that in your pocket,” he told me.
I shook my head, told him to put the money...
The headline surely was not what Team Sandoval wanted to see: "Nevada GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval is popular, but not within his party"
I thought the L.A. Times story itself was pretty good for Sandoval. Mark Barabak did a great job of capturing the governor's deliberative, careful and moderate style while finding only taxaphobic Grover Norquist and a Nevada-based Norquistian who despises the governor to criticize him.
The headline referred to national Republicans, who may not want Sandoval on a...
RJ columnist Steve Sebelius was first to give this bizarre column more widespread currency.
State Bar boss Alan Lefebvre essentially argues that AG Catherine Cortez Masto should have contineud to defend the gay marriage ban, and then concluded: "I know one thing for certain; when this is all over, somebody in the federal government owes an apology to the State of Deseret.”
What?
I'm not the only one befuddled. As you can see from the attached documents, at least one lawyer eviscerated the...