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If it doesn’t smell, it’s Nevada
Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010 | 2:01 a.m.
So let me get this straight: Assembly Ways and Means Chairman Morse Arberry is term-limited. So without his title anymore, he needs to find honest work. So what does he do? He sets up a company and begins looking for lobbying contracts — to lobby his soon-to-be former colleagues. Smell yet? And he’s asking these people for lobbying contracts while he’s still a lawmaker? Then, apparently after someone found out, he resigns from the Legislature. But his lobbying contract, with the not-so-innocent District Court judges who were negotiating with him, is dated Sept. 1 (nice) and still has to be approved by the Clark County Commission next week. Smell yet? If it doesn’t, well, this must be Nevada. Oh, did I mention it’s for $10,000 a month? Now what do the judges need from lawmakers to use our money so profligately to obtain? I shudder to think.
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Jon:
This is good reporting of information that would likely never appear in the fish wrap the Sun comes in.
But wait, isn't [former] Assemblyman Arberry a Democrat. I've read the blogs here and you are a hired gun whose job it is to shoot down GOP so how can you possible stay loyal to your Democratic employers {tongue firmly in cheek}.
I can't wait to see the silence about your objectivity from those on the right who regularly skewer your reporting as partison.
Welcome to Nevada. Where corruptions a way of political life. Need constituent services. . . be sure to pony up front money to even get a chance to talk and express ideas with "your elected Representative".
I'm sure our Nevada Secretary of State will have no problems with Chairman Morse Arberry schemes.
Meanwhile, just put a clothes pin on your nose and look the other way please as it's business per usual in the Great state of Corruption.