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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a relatively rare appearance on a Sunday program today, interviewed by George Stephanopoulos on the "This Week" show.
The full transcript is below, with a few of my annotations sprunkled amid the colloquy in italics. Some of the highlights:
----Reid said it would be a "bad day for the country and a bad day for the Republican Party" if immigration reform does not pass the House after it "certainly" passes the Senate
----Reid said "gay folks" should be...
Welcome to The Weekly Report, where you will get exclusive information, columns and analysis. This week:
1. My curtain-raiser for Session '13
2. My leadership thumbnails
3. My listing of a few other players
4. My thumbnail of the governor vis a vis the Gang of 63
MY COLUMN: WHAT SHALL WE CALL THIS LEGISLATURE?
I have labeled Legislatures in the past, conferring appellations that ran the gamut from Snooze Session to Session from Hell.
Although most feel like the latter by the end no matter...
Here are some items I put out on Twitter this morning after perusing end-of-year FEC reports. Enjoy:
----Unsung hero of @SenDeanHeller's victory was Washoe GOP, which became fed PAC to help him, spent more in '12 than circumvented NV GOP: $918K.
----Failed #nv04 candidate @DannyTarkanian is disputing $54K worth of bills he accrued in his campaign: http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00465963/851420/sd/10
----If you have debt from a congressional run, NV Energy, the state's power...
Legislative leaders have reached out to troubled Assemblyman Steven Brooks to try to resolve his continued service, but have been met with silence as he appears to be making arrangements to appear in Carson City on Monday.
I am reliably told that through emissaries, leaders have tried to get Brooks and/or his lawyer to agree that the intense spotlight of Carson City is not the best place for him to get well and that they are willing to arrange a temporary leave of absence. There are real safety...
This missive went out today to the thousands of Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce members about the margins tax that the Legislature must consider:
Dear Las Vegas Metro Chamber members,
Today, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that an initiative petition to enact a “margin” tax on business is
eligible to move forward. The state legislature now has 40 days from the start of the session next week
to pass the proposal. If they do not, it will be on the ballot in 2014 for voters to decide.
The...
The Branch of Inaction now has no choice but to take action.
After decades of quarter-measures and half-promises, the Legislature must finally take a stand on a business tax. And in forcing the Gang of 63 to stand up or roll over, the the state Supreme Court has ushered in what is sure to be a battle royale not seen in 10 years, not since the dreaded gross receipts tax was immolated in a bonfire of ineptitude, fear-mongering and cowardice.
This is like a sequel that has all the potential to be...
Decision posted here -- reverses District Court.
Yes, that's what Constable John Bonaventura, whose office some county commissioners want to abolish, says about two memos, attached here, about how to conduct business during the legislative session.
The memos have to do with procedures for getting travel to Carson City approverd -- just a week after one of Bonaventura's constables accompanied troubled Assemblyman Steven Brooks to the capital.
"Travel to Carson City that has not been requested by the county's lobby team is strongly discouraged...