Letter: Guinn redefining language for own purposes

Sunday, Sept. 12, 1999 | 9:41 a.m.

I read this several times and now I realize that the governor and his staff have the entrenched convoluted view that an increase in the gaming tax is something advocated by special interests (Sen. Joe Neal and all of us). Neal and the citizen petitioners are not special interests; the gaming people and the lobbyists who have captured the governor and Legislature are the special interests. Referring to the Nevada voters and a state senator as special interests is outrageous.

The governor and his staff employ Clintonspeak to camouflage their motives of caving in to the special interests in consistently blocking this vital tax increase when the same companies are paying two to three times more taxes than they pay in Nevada to other states for gaming taxes. With this chicanery the citizens have to resort to a petition.

The governor should be held accountable for his opposition to a referendum on a gaming tax increase; maybe he should consult his new Ethics Board about his prior actions in helping to torpedo the increase twice in Nevada's Legislature.

G.P. DIX

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