Miniglean

• Political expert-texpert Charlie Cook is getting the message, moves Nevada's CD3 -- that's where Democrat Tessa Hafen is going to knock off Republican Mike Slanker, er, Jon Porter -- from "likely Republican" to "lean Republican." Gleaner prediction: Cook will move the race to "toss up" by September. Writes Cook in National Journal (subscription), "The consensus among veteran Republican campaign consultants, particularly pollsters, is that if the election were held today, their party would lose the House."
• Jill Derby, the Democrat who is going to win in Nevada's open CD2, joined the chorus of Democrats unloading on the Veterans Administration for losing all that personal data of veterans. She's jumping on the legislation to give vets free credit monitoring for a year, and free credit reports for a couple years after that. Harry Reid also touted that legislation, or something that sounded mighty similar, while meeting with vets in Las Vegas Tuesday.
• Dina Titus, or as she likes to refer to herself in media advisories, "Democratic frontrunner for governor Dina Titus," is unveiling an economic development program at a labor convention Wednesday. Here at the Gleaner, our economic development program consists of taxing Wal-Mart and Wells Fargo and all the other corporations that do bidness here but don't pay much in the way of taxes, then throw the money, just throw it, at education. We suspect the Titus plan will be more nuanced.
• The other "Democrat" for governor, Jim Gibson, has hit the airwaves. He has to, because as Titus notes, he's not the "frontrunner." We saw one of his ads on the magic lantern Tuesday, and sure enough, Jim Gibson is "for" parks. We always knew we had something in common with hizzoner. Actually, we might have something else in common with him -- a lack of advanced technological prowess -- the streams for Gibson's ads reportedly won't be up for online viewing at his campaign website until Wednesday.

Comments

[Homer Simpson]

So, Mayor Jim Gibson is for parks. How many of those parks are in master-planned Green Valley developments, and therefore the work of other people?

[Not Bob]

D'oh. Homer raises a good point. New home construction projects are required by state law to pay a tax that is supposed to go directly for parks in the county of that construction. A lot of newer developments, esp in Green Valley, are allowed by the City of Henderson and Clark County to build the parks themselves as part of the development rather than pay the tax. The result of course is that more established areas are left without enough parks or parks that are well maintained. (This problem is particularly acute in unincorporated parts of Clark County.)

So the question that comes to mind is whether the Mayor would, as governor, act to bring parks to the rest of the state or does he think that those parts of the state that are not, well, Green Valley should be content with what they've got?

(Think carefully before you shout your response, Beastie.)

[sharon]

Sounds like paranoia, people. Take it seriously, or don't write anything at all. You don't have to agree with every ridiculous thing Hugh writes. He gets paid to level baseless accusations and cheap attacks against anyone who is not Dina Titus (though Neff called her out pretty good for that yesterday). What do you all get out of it? Point is--I haven't decided if i'll vote for the man, but the lack of respect for most people, and the political process itself, on this site is really ridiculous. I've seen the ad you're talking about, and viewed it with an open mind. I like it. So did Ralston (Jackson's idol). And a lot of other voters probably did too. Day after day three or four of you mindless idiots say the same things about the same candidates. Get some new material! And before i sound too negative about everything the gleaner does, i have to give him credit for his support of Derby. She rocks! Good day, everyone.

[ad-rock]

When did Beastie change his name to sharon?

Either he is a big fan of basic instinct II or Isreali prime ministers, possibly both.

[Not Bob]

Just saw the 2 Gibson ads, on the RGJ site. That schools ad is, well, wierd - who is the "them" in the tagline? I thought at first he meant Mississippi (as in, "if we're last, where the hell is Mississippi") but I don't think thats actually what he meant.

The parks one though is the one that I really like. It starts out showing open desert and asks "what do you see? A strip mall? a high rise? a factor?" And I thought, well he does have a good record of bringing strip malls, high rises (well until today) and factories (till some of them blew up) to what was once desert around old Basic.

But it turns out I missed the point on that one too. Now he's against development. Maybe he 'll propose a growth boundary?

[VegasFirst]

Sharon, you rhyme with witch!

You're anti-Titus, pro-Gibson and pro-Derby (huh?). You launch into a witchy fit over Hugh, other people's "paranoia," AND then demand "respect for most people, and the political process itself." Now, that's all perfectly consistent, isn't it?

If you don't like what's posted here, why don't you respect the rest of us and stay the hell away -- and let the political process play itself out, as it also does in blogs nowadays, if you haven't heard (Reid has).

[Beastie]

Nice try "AD-Rock", where's MCA? Ya I loved Basic Instinct II, even though I haven't seen either of them, I think only four people saw Basic Instinct II.