* When I heard that Donald Trump had been hit yesterday with yet another indictment – this one related to the January 6 protest – my first thought was, “It must be Tuesday.”
* Indeed, the unending political weaponization of lawsuits against the former president have pretty much become so common-place that most people probably yawned at yesterday’s news.
* According to the Brennan Center, the law being invoked in this latest “Get Trump” indictment was originally passed to prohibit anyone “from engaging in efforts to interfere with people exercising the right to vote and interfere in elections.”
* First, January 6 had nothing to do with people exercising their right to vote. They’d already voted. This was about counting the votes after the vote and questioning the integrity of the balloting.
* While the Trump camp was never able to prove election fraud didn’t take place, that doesn’t mean it didn’t. After all, it was never “proved” that OJ killed Nicole, right?
* Secondly, if interfering in elections is against the law, a better indictment should be brought against CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and other media outlets. Not to mention Facebook!
* If anything, the Trump campaign is guilty of failing prove its case. The rest of this crud is just a hate crime against a former president the left doesn’t want to just beat, but destroy.
* Heard it Through the Grapevine: Nevada Republicans are about to get a new, serious candidate for next year’s U.S. Senate race: Tony Grady. He’ll be joining a gaggle of other GOP candidates, including the front-runner, Sam Brown, and serial general election loser, Jim Marchant.
* Grady ran an impressive campaign for lieutenant governor last year – his first as a candidate - coming in second to Stavros Anthony in the GOP primary while carrying, I believe, 13 out of Nevada’s 17 counties.
* Grady also has a stellar military background as a test pilot for Stealth fighters and bombers in the Air Force before going on to a 20-year career flying for FedEx. He’s also a solid conservative with tremendous people skills who doesn’t scare the daylights out of independent voters.
* Grady isn’t likely to match Brown dollar-for-dollar, but he doesn’t have to. If he can raise $250,000 between now and the end of the year, he’ll have enough juice to be competitive in the primary. If he’s the nominee, the general election money will come.
* State Senate Minority Leader Heidi Gansert (R-Washoe) announced yesterday that she will not be running for re-election next year.
* Republicans are one seat away from being relegated to super-minority status in the state senate and Gansert may have been the only Republican who could hold this seat after Democrats redrew the lines in favor of their party.
* Republicans are also in jeopardy of losing Sen. Carrie Buck’s seat, and could have trouble with Sen. Scott Hammond’s seat – both in Clark County. Meanwhile, the GOP’s pick-up opportunities against Democrat Sens. Nicole Cannibizzaro and Dallas Harris are seen as longshots…at best.
* Better start focusing on picking up seats in the Assembly if Republicans hope to protect Gov. Joe Lombardo’s vetoes.
* In a tweet on Sunday, Nevada Republican National Committeewoman Sigal Chattah tried to excuse why the Nevada GOP intends to hold a competing presidential “caucus” to select its delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention instead of awarding them to the winner of Nevada’s presidential primary.
“Consultants stand to lose millions in media buys during the presidential primary if Presidential candidates know that NV’s Presidential nomination will happen only in a caucus. They won’t waste money on media buys in Nevada.”
* I’m sure all the television & radio stations and newspapers in the state will be thrilled with Chattah’s decision to discourage presidential campaign advertising. Likely gonna cost them millions.
* The City of Las Vegas is set to vote today on whether to throw another $1.5 million into its losing legal battle with the developer of the old Badlands Golf Course. The city has so far lost 3 out of 4 lawsuits brought by the developer for “taking” his land without due compensation.
* The city’s taxpayers have already been hit with some $82 million in damages awarded to the developer in two of the cases, and can expect to get walloped with another $50 million-plus in the third.
* So far, only Councilwoman Victoria Seaman has indicated she’s prepared to vote against the additional funding. “I refuse to throw good money after bad,” she told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in an interview yesterday.
* The council should pull the plug on this losing endeavor. But it won’t. Heck, it’s not THEIR money being wasted. It’s yours.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“First of all, the government doesn't actually shut down. They take non-essential workers. and then they don't work. But why do we have non-essential workers to begin with?” – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis