Davis eyes Koivisto’s seat in Assembly

Monday, May 8, 2000 | 9:28 a.m.

Clark County Republican Mike Davis has announced he will run against incumbent Democrat Ellen Koivisto for the State Assembly in District 14.

Davis, a community activist, is a member of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, the National Rifle Association, the Sierra Club and volunteers with Big Brothers-Big Sisters.

"The most important issues we face are improving our schools, and dealing with growth," Davis said. "Our challenges today are primarily the results of poorly anticipated development, which now leaves you and I stuck in traffic, and our children in overcrowded and failing schools. We can do better."

Neighbors files

State Assemblyman Roy Neighbors, D-Tonopah, has filed for a fifth term in District 36, which includes Esmeralda, Lincoln, Mineral and Nye counties and covers 35,000 square miles.

Neighbors, who turns 76 in July, said the 2001 Legislature will have to "fine tune" the electric utility deregulation law that allows other companies to compete with Nevada Power Co. and Sierra Pacific Power Co. "We all thought that this was resolved" in 1999, he said. "But we're a long way from it being resolved."

He also said he would like to see the size of the Legislature expanded for reapportionment so rural Nevada could keep its present numbers, while expanding the Las Vegas delegation.

Neighbors is being opposed by Republican Gary Hollis of Pahrump.