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Published Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 | 4:29 p.m.
Updated Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 | 4:33 p.m.
In one of his first acknowledgements that he has a general election opponent, Republican Brian Sandoval today sent out a press release accusing Democrat Rory Reid of ignoring his job as county commissioner in favor of campaigning for governor.
The Sandoval campaign found 140 votes Reid has missed in the past 19 months.
“Clark County taxpayers probably aren’t going to be too happy to realize they are essentially paying him to run for Governor,” Sandoval spokeswoman Mary-Sarah Kinner said. “Clearly, Rory Reid believes it’s more important to campaign for a new job than do his current job.”
The 140 missed votes, however, represent an estimated 3 percent of the 4,000 or more votes by the commission in that time period. County commission meetings typically last between six and eight hours.
Reid’s campaign said he has missed only two meetings since January 2009. The rest of the missed votes occurred when Reid took a break to “get a drink of water, make a phone call or check on one of his kids,” spokesman Mike Trask said.
“It is absolutely ridiculous for a man who’s quit more jobs than anybody in Nevada and who has been running around the state avoiding public scrutiny for the past eight months to be all that concerned about other people’s schedules,” Trask said about Sandoval.
The press release was the first general election attack launched by Sandoval, who has largely refused to engage Reid. Sandoval has a substantial lead in the polls.
I wouldn't complain too much about R. Reid missing votes or meetings, he probably does less damage that way.
these 2 can whine about dribble forever but ONLY 1 QUESTION NEEDS AN ANSWER;
1. Time is soooon to be here that HUGE decisions will be made because we have the largest budget shortfall in the U.S. and by a factor of 3 times the national average. Most money is spent on people and pensions so the wh0res who sold out Nevada to the unions will have to admit the gravy train stops here. The state will no doubt steal $ from the cities and counties and those wh0res will have to admit to the public unions that the gravy train stops here.
There are easy ways to fix this problem but it takes brains and not arrogence.
I could explain the simple fix for revenues but U will never get there if U can not start w/ salaries, pensions, illegas and the wh0re politicians
2. Nevada's largesse to public unions, the highest in the U.S. costs 1 billion dollars every year over what the private sector receives. STOP IT NOW
BANKRUPTSY must be decared, all gov. employees contracts and pensions must be nullified.
public employees need to be fired en mass and rehired at the national average (no execeptions)
NV needs a law for illegals like Arizona as those illegas are on the move and coming here
We are 3 billion short and loose at least 1 billion because of illegals alone, if u can't start with the obvious u will NEVER get there
"The rest of the missed votes occurred when Reid took a break to "get a drink of water, make a phone call or check on one of his kids," spokesman Mike Trask said."
So he voted when he could have been on a "nature call"? Impressive discipline or was one of those "kids" actually slated for the "pool".
What is Sandoval's platform?
He needs to come out of hiding.
The Reids have done enough damage. It will be nice to see them both in retirement.
Hey Calcutta girl, did you miss the statistic that there are much fewer government workers per citizen in Nevada than any other state? Our per capita figure is one of the lowest in the nation, and actually results in lower TOTAL government employee costs. Yes, the government workers here do make more money than others, but there are FEWER of them so we actually spend less than most other states to provide the same services. And FEWER government workers overall result in LOWER total pension costs too.
Anyone can throw out a few facts to make their point, but it takes ALL the facts to get the true picture. Nevada taxpayers are actually getting a pretty fair deal from their government employees, high salaries included.
Now, if the opposite were true, high salaries AND a large number of employees, THEN you would have something to really be mad about.
While paying higher salaries to individual government employees, Nevada still pays LESS OVERALL per capita than EVERY other state. This is due to the fewer number of government workers per capita (this means doing more with less, or being efficient!)
Here are some quotes (there are many more available too) from the Sun and RJ that admit this fact:
Quotes from various RJ stories:
"We are faced with a situation in which we have some of the highest paid local employees in the country and, as the Chamber's (Chamber of Commerce) studies have also shown, we have the fewest number of public employees per capita in the country. And the proposed solution to this budget crisis is to lay off employees? What sense does this make?"
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"Aguero (Chamber of Commerce) was surprised by some of the findings.
He found that at 41.4 local and state government employees per 1,000 residents, Nevada has the fewest public employees on a per capita basis in the nation.
He also found that classroom teachers in Nevada receive annualized pay of $44,354, about 6 percent less than the national average. Higher education instructors, or professors, in Nevada earn $63,883, about five percent less than the national norm."
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From the LV Sun:
"At various points, Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio, the Reno Republican with nearly four decades in the upper chamber, broke in. His forehead clearly displayed the mark of the Catholic holy day Ash Wednesday, which made his usually imposing presence all the more so.
All of us get e-mails and blogs, or whatever they are, he said. Raggio is likely not roaming the Internet, but still, hes very aware that hes been attacked as soft on tax increases by conservative firebrands online.
So several times he made a point about the stinginess of Nevada government.
He cited a Tax Foundation study showing Nevada is 50th in the country in public employees per capita. Aguero conceded Raggio's points and continued on."
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So you can only conclude that Nevada government employees actually do more work with fewer people. This SAVES the taxpayer money. Do you get it?
IS THIS THE SAME SANDOVAL WHO HAS QUIT EVERY PUBLIC SERVICE JOB HE HAS EVER HAD? HE QUIT THE ASSEMBLY FOR THE A.G. JOB. HE QUIT THE A.G. JOB FOR THE FEDERAL BENCH. NOW, IF HE IS ELECTED GOV., WILL HE QUIT WHEN ENSIGN IS FORCED TO RESIGN WHEN HE IS INDICTED????
BY THE WAY, SANDOVAL WAS NOT EVEN BORN IN THE USA. GO BACK TO MEXICO, SANDOVAL. THEY COULD USE A FLIP-FLOPPER LIKE YOU!!!!
Neither of these incompetent twits have anything to offer;
In the bi-annual budget Nevada can save 2 billion dollars; since we WASTE 1 billion per year OVER PAYING public unions ABOVE what the private sector gets.
FILE BANKRUPTCY; fire all government employees and re-hire those willing to work for the national average of the private sector with those same private sector benefits.
But just watch, our wh0re politicians will tax their employers the citizens and hand out largesse to the public unions.
BTW Nevada looses 1 billion dollars per year on illegal aliens. Start at the hospitals because this is where HUGE dollar volume is wasted; an example is UMC in Las Vegas where illegal aliens cost the dialysis unit 10 million plus $s every year and no one even stops by to check on legal eligibility for these services.