Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Here he goes again: Kermitt Waters teams up with left, right to try to change tax structure, initiative process

Attorney Kermitt Waters, who has talked about this before, once again is trying to raise taxes on the state's powerful special interests, who he says control the political process, as well as tilt at several other windmills through the initiative process. He wants to broaden the tax base and raise taxes, but first he wants to make it easier to qualify an initiative petition. So he has enlisted some strange bedfellows, including the folks at the "nonpartisan" Citizen Outreach, a right-wing front group that apparently wants to circulate some petitions of its own and is being used by Waters so he can raise taxes.

Long road to get this on the ballot and to win the lawsuit, but the Sun's Michael Squires has the details and the petition here

I have posted the lawsuit, with Citizen Outreach as a co-plaintiff, at right.

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