* BREAKING, BAD:
* CNN is reporting today that “Special counsel Jack Smith has compelled at least two Republican fake electors to testify to a federal grand jury in Washington in recent weeks by giving them limited immunity…”
* The two given immunity to testify against Donald Trump’s efforts challenging the 2020 election results are Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald and Nevada Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid.
* Uh-oh. What’s that old saying about snitches and stitches?
* Meanwhile, the Nevada GOP’s barely articulate National Committeewoman, Sigal Chattah, is continuing with her social media jihad against Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo…
“Apparently the fact that I don’t condone the mentally ill engaging in gender appropriation like these two don’t condone seeking mental health treatment has set off the Uniparty…”
* Can we get an English translation?
* Chattah is a laughingstock and an embarrassment. Worse, she’s going to be an anvil wrapped around the necks of every GOP candidate who will be on the ballot next year.
* Yet Chairman McDonald and the members of the Central Committee keep letting her shoot off her big, vulgar mouth.
* It’s become increasingly clear that the Chattah-bator is running the Nevada GOP show unilaterally and without a leash while McDonald and DeGraffenreid are distracted by being called in front of grand juries and negotiating immunity deals.
* Does anyone believe all this ongoing drama with Trump, McDonald, DeGraffenreid, and Chattah is a good thing for Nevada Republicans going into the 2024 election cycle?
* Just a couple of notes about the A’s stadium deal…
* There was no tax hike to fund the public portion of the funding.
* What was done was re-allocate tax revenue that will be generated by the stadium and adjacent retailers towards building the stadium. So we’re talking about tax revenues that wouldn’t be generated anyway without the stadium.
* If you don’t want to pay taxes to fund the stadium, don’t go to the stadium. Regardless, it’s now a done deal and we move on.
* Now that the 2023 session of the Nevada Legislature is in the books, time to start getting serious about next year’s elections…
* The #1 priority for Nevada Republicans should be to send Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo some reinforcements to Carson City.
* If the Republicans lose just one seat in the Senate and fail to get out of the super-minority in the Assembly, all 75 of those crappy Democrat bills the governor vetoed will be overridden and become law at the start of the 2025 session.
* There are three GOP Senate seats up and in play next year…
* Sen. Scott Hammond (Clark) is termed out, so that “swing” seat will be an open seat.
* Conservative Assemblyman Richard McArthur is also termed out and will be running for Hammond’s Senate seat and is the best chance the GOP has for holding it.
* Senate Minority Leader Heidi Gansert (Washoe) is in big trouble. Democrats redrew her district lines in such a way as to make it a blue seat instead of a purple seat.
* Worse, her voting record - especially on some key issues important to social conservatives - was terrible. She’s lost much of her base and they ain’t coming back. Gonna take a small miracle for her to hold on.
* Sen. Carrie Buck (Clark) has also had her district redrawn to favor a Democrat challenger. And she, too – with her politically ham-handed effort two years ago to take over the Clark County Republican Party – is in deep doo-doo.
* Like Gansert, she cast a number of votes this session that definitely turned off many of her base Republican voters. It won’t surprise me if she draws a credible primary opponent.
* Perhaps the only State Senate seat Republicans have a chance to flip next year is SD 11 in Las Vegas, currently misrepresented by race-hustling, trans-radical Sen. Dallas Harris.
* Former UNLV basketball star Tony Lane – who entertained running for Congress last year before withdrawing and backing former Assemblywoman Annie Black for the seat – is seriously considering taking Harris on.
* Now over to the Assembly, which continues to be the gang that can’t shoot straight…
* The coup to oust Minority Leader PK O’Neill by moderates Greg Hafen and Toby Yurek has reportedly been put down…for now.
* But you can bet they’ll be angling to elect more wishy-washy moderates like themselves next year to gain power.
* So not only do we need to elect more Republicans from swing districts next year, we also need to elect some better ones in GOP primaries in Republican districts.
* Hafen and Yurek should be at the top of those primary challenges.
* Ending up on a national note…
* Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson – a hopeless GOP candidate for president – doesn’t think Trump should be running based on “serious allegations.” He apparently missed that class about “innocent until proven guilty.”
* Hutch also thinks Republicans should “back off” of complaints about the Justice Department being “weaponized” against Republicans even though it’s clear the Justice Department has been weaponized against Republicans.
* Doe that make him a trans-Republican?