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Published Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 | 12:26 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 | 12:33 p.m.
At a time when Gov.-elect Brian Sandoval is asking departments to prepare budget cuts as high as 30 percent, he has added an additional officer for his family's protection.
Sandoval Tuesday requested a $103,000 for an additional public safety officer for the first 6 months of 2011. Gov. Jim Gibbons' protection detail currently has five positions.
Dale Erquiaga, a Sandoval spokesman, said that the Department of Public Safety did a risk assessment and recommended adding three positions - to bring the level of staffing to what it was when Gov. Bob Miller was in office during the 1990, the last time the first family included young children.
Sandoval cut that down to one additional officer, Erquiaga said.
Sandoval's wife, Kathleen will continue to work as head of a nonprofit in Reno and their three children will attend their same schools in Reno, Erquiaga said. The first family plans to provide their own transportation, he said.
The item was unanimously approved by the Board of Examiners, made up of Gibbons, the attorney general and secretary of state. Sandoval takes office Jan. 3. The cost also includes $30,000 for a new vehicle.
way to cut expenses Sandoval!
Call 911 like everybody else if you need cops. You are the governor of a state, not the POTUS. $130K could pay for 4 teachers. Yet we'll likely be seeing teachers laid off while your kids get a chauffeur with a badge to take them to their private school.
Bullshat.
$103,000 for SIX MONTHS for ONE OFFICER? Plus $30k for a new vehicle? Nevada has been very, very good to Sandoval - and he's not even in office yet.
Brian Sandoval: Do as I say, not as I do!
We must make cuts in funding education and essential state services, but make sure to give me a extra six figures to expand my entourage!
What a prima donna.
How about I take the new gov out to the range and teach him and his wife how to shoot. We could buy them matching his and hers new Kimber compact 45's. I'll teach him for free and the state will only have to shell out a couple of grand for the guns and some hollow points. He can then protect himself and his family and the troopers can go back to keeping DUI's off the road.
Hmm... What's he so scared about? Did he not pay someone off or something? Typical corrupt politician.
I don't have an issue with this at all. For those of you who have seen and been to Carson City, the Capitol and the Governor's Mansion, which I would guess eliminates most of you... you'd know that the Governor is incredibly accessible for good reasons and probably bad. Neither Guinn nor Gibbons had a "family" with children during their terms.
With crazy and desparate people, like the ones who visited the Nye County Public Administrator's home the other night out there, I don't feel it's wrong or a "waste" of taxpayers $$$ for the new Governor (the elected leader of our state) and his family to feel safe and secure in leading their lives. What's talked about in this article is far from an armada of security or over the top by any stretch.
So adding a First Lady and three kids constitutes one more in Security, I think that is pretty good compared to Gibbons numbers and the comment about the Millers numbers.
Now, now... let's be nice to Brian. He might get upset and quit!
Brian Sandoval shouldn't be scared, but if you are a state employee or an educator you should be scared to death of Brian Sandoval. How stupid can our new governor be? We need a strong, educated work force in this state. Business will not relocate here based on a low corporate tax structure alone. If there are not enough highly qualified, well educated people to do the work then they will not come. The Chinese have an emerging middle class. Asia is set to explode as a world wide market for goods and services. We need to be investing in education, science, technology. etc. and think about how to bring revenue from those markets back to Nevada. We are the worst in the nation in terms of education and this will not get better if we cut more money from the system. Look people the choice is simple: greed or our children's futures!
They couldn't have gotten the job done with a used car?
Waste. Cut police (Nevada Highway Patrol) for the people, but increase police for yourself. What a hypocrite. Typical Sandogibbons.
The Police services are a critical funding link for themselves. Blockbuster fines for Miss Manners tickets of 10mph overs..."in a construction zone" where there was no construction - $290.
No new taxes but more tickets being given out. Gotta pay for those raises and Court Costs for RightHaven.
Welcomes to "reality budgeting". Just like "reality television," reality TV has nothing to do with reality.
What, exactly is the threat to our Governor? Is that a part-time threat or 24/7? (The Budgeted amount is not for around the clock, 7 days a week protection.) Or is this just a status symbol -- an armed chauffeur -- because the state would somehow lose face if our governor drove himself?
Nevada is faced with the highest percentage budget deficit of any state. The Governor can drive himself.
Remember when Harry Reid wanted to bullet proof all the glass windows in judges stomping grounds?
And provide armed escorts for judges?
What hypocrites, these Liberals are, huh?
Brian Sandoval's family deserve protection against the extremist Liberals who talk hate and encourage hate and violent acts.
Well lets see since the Nevada Highway Patrol (state troopers) have to take one day off with no pay and Brian is talking abouting adding another day for employees, will he require his protection team to take off there required days off, and by the way the person cannot have no overtime for that week that he or she is required to take there required day off, so who are they going to get to replace the Trooper when he needs to work overtime for the Gov. , O yea he will break the rules just for himself and screw the rest of the troopers that do there job,day in and day out (but when a problem arises with them they get screwed).The answer is no day off for Gov's protection but protection for the rest of the state (citizens) the answer is yes. Well folks you got what you voted. As for Reid asking for protection for the Judges, the difference is that Reid was not asking to cut hours of the rest of the security police offices (state troopers) like good old Brian is asking.
He should carry his own weapon.
When will the corruption in this country ever end?
@Cliff - I don't believe a liberal has ever spoken about exercising their second amendment rights or reloading or taking out a president. Ever.
@azsk8fan ...Never, that is unAmerican.