* Pardon the recent drought of MTP+ posts. Been holed up writing the campaign plan for our new Pigpen Project to clean up Nevada’s voter lists. Wrapped it up and published on the project’s new website yesterday. You can check it out by clicking here: pigpenproject.com/about
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* Now back to our regularly scheduled programming…
* Attention: Donald Trump supporters. You’re gonna need those DeSantis voters in the general election should your guy win the GOP nomination.
* Attention: Ron DeSantis supporters. You’re gonna need those Trump voters in the general election should your guy win the GOP nomination.
* Attention: Supporters of every other GOP prez candidate. Well, you know. Proceed accordingly.
* On Monday night, FOX News’ Tucker Carlson shared previously hidden footage of the January 6 Capitol breach. In short, the Democrats who launched a witch hunt of those involved in the protest…well, they lied. Who could have seen this coming?
* In the least surprising news of the week, former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway is finally divorcing her insufferably obnoxious “Never Trump” husband, George Conway, who regularly skewered the former president while his wife worked at the White House.
* The only surprise is that it took this long.
* Meanwhile, Joe Biden plans to announce his new tax-hike proposal in Philadelphia on Thursday. Expect the usual “tax the rich” and make them pay their “fair share” rhetoric.
* In Rochester, NY, on Sunday, “fears of gun fire at a rap concert” resulted in a stampede that “killed one person and left two others fighting for their lives.” Who would ever expect such a calamity at a “mostly peaceful” rap concert?
* In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot last week was the first Windy City mayor in 75 years not to win a re-election bid. Rampant crime and violence were the reasons for her ouster, but, of course, she blamed the loss on…racism.
* A Republican state senator in Florida has proposed a bill requiring bloggers – like yours truly – to register with the government if they write about the state’s governor, a Cabinet official, or a state legislator. Unregistered bloggers could face fines of up to $2,500.
* That’s insane. That a Republican would propose such a stupid bill is even more insane.
* The Nevada Legislature is in session and tackling the critical issues keeping voters up at night, including a Senate bill to name an official state horse and an Assembly bill allowing students “to wear tribal regalia or objects of cultural or religious significance at graduations.”
* Your tax dollars hard at work.
* Senate Democrats have also introduced a bill to jack up the real estate transfer tax and use the money for low-income housing. It’ll require a 2/3 super-majority vote to pass out of the Senate, meaning the Dems need to peel off one Republican before Gov. Joe Lombardo can veto the bill.
* Flashback: Lombardo in debate last October: “I’m telling you at this point, right here, in front of the audience and public viewers, I will not raise taxes. Never.”
* Nevada’s “establishment” Democrats ousted their card-carrying socialist chairwoman on Saturday. It seems Democrats have a much lower level of tolerance for incompetent leadership than Republicans.
* A woman in Las Vegas stole a car, robbed a business at gunpoint, and led police on a chase that ended in a crash in Henderson. The woman fled the accident scene, stopped, turned, and pointed a gun at the cops.
* Guess how that ended up?
* As of yesterday morning, the woman was still in critical condition at Sunrise Hospital and has been booked, in abstentia, for the car theft and robbery. Now here’s the unsurprising kicker, courtesy of the Las Vegas Review Journal…
* The woman “served two years in prison in 2011 for conspiracy to commit burglary and burglary with a deadly weapon and two years in 2016 for robbery with a deadly weapon.”
* And just two weeks ago she pled “no contest” to theft in another case and Justice of the Peace Ann Zimmerman sentenced her “to community service, stay out of trouble and impulse control counseling.” Basically, a slap on the wrist for a career criminal.
* Caught…and released. Revolving door justice. We need new judges.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“Study Finds 100% Of Men Would Eat Any Fruit Given To Them By A Naked Woman.” – Babylon Bee on the story of Adam & Eve
Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, publisher of Nevada News & Views and blogs at MuthsTruths.com. His views are his own.