Incumbent McClain to seek second term

Wednesday, May 3, 2000 | 10:33 a.m.

Assemblywoman Kathy McClain, D-Clark County, is among the latest group of politicians to file their candidacies with the state attorney general's office.

McClain is seeking a second term representing District 15, which includes Las Vegas neighborhoods bounded by Sahara Avenue to the north, Tropicana Avenue to the south, Lamb Boulevard on the east and Spencer Street on the west.

In her first term McClain served on the transportation, judiciary, health and human services, election and ethics committees.

Joanna Wesley, a Republican and former North Las Vegas City Council candidate, filed to challenge Clark County Commissioner Yvonne Atkinson Gates for her District D Commission seat. Gates, a Democrat, is seeking her second term.

Elanor Kim Chow of Las Vegas filed her candidacy Tuesday for the state Board of Education, District B. Chow served 24 years as a member of the Montebello, Calif., Unified School District Board of Education.

Several Northern Nevada legislators also filed their papers.

Sen. Mike McGinness, R-Fallon, filed for re-election to his third term after serving four years in the Assembly. And he knows he could be on the hot seat at the 2001 Legislature. He has been chairman of the Senate Taxation Committee and next year will handle the initiative petitions to levy a business profits tax and one to raise the tax on casinos. McGinness, manager of a Fallon radio station, said he opposes both of them.

Ed Beaman, a Democrat from Pahrump, has filed against McGinness in the Central Nevada Senatorial District that covers 55,000 square miles, is larger than 26 states and covers Churchill, White Pine, Mineral, Nye, Lincoln and Esmeralda counties and parts of Lander and Eureka counties.

Sen. Dean Rhoads, R-Tuscarora, who has been in the Senate since 1984 after three terms in the Assembly, also filed for re-election to the district that includes all of Elko, Humboldt and Pershing counties and parts of Eureka and Lander counties.

Also filing for re-election was Assemblywoman Marcia de Braga, D-Fallon, for the district that is composed of Churchill and White Pine counties and portions of Eureka and Lander counties. De Braga was first elected to the State Assembly in 1992.

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