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Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 | 4:48 p.m.
Gov. Jim Gibbons
CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons won’t be back in January but he wants to leave his mark.
He is proposing nine bills to be introduced during the 2011 legislative session in February, dealing with education, energy and government office hours.
He has already expressed many of the ideas, but now they are in the form of bill draft requests.
For instance, the governor is suggesting a school voucher program and elimination of mandatory collective bargaining for local governments.
The nine bills are among 258 requests submitted since Aug. 30 by legislators and others. For instance Assemblyman Mark Manendo, D-Las Vegas, wants to prohibit minors from using cell phones and similar devices while driving. The state Corrections Department wants the authority to wire tap phone calls in prisons. The Nevada Supreme Court is proposing an increase in civil fees collected by justice courts.
Lynn Hettrick, deputy chief of staff for Gibbons, said the school voucher plan is misunderstood by many. Critics complain it would take money away from public schools, but Hettrick said the proposal would leave public schools with additional money when a student goes to a private school.
Under the bill, Gibbons proposes the state would give a parent who wants to place a child in private school 75 percent of what the state pays per student in public schools. The other 25 percent would stay with the school district, although it would have one less student.
Gibbons is also proposing giving school districts more flexibility in how they spend money. The funds provided by the state could be moved around to support different programs.
In another proposal, most state agencies are now required to work or be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hettrick said this would permit such schedules as four 10-hour days.
Gibbons is also proposing that part of insurance tax collections be allocated to the state Commission on Economic Development for a program to lure insurance companies to Nevada.
The Gibbons administration and its agencies are permitted 100 bills to be drafted for introduction into the 2011 Legislature.
Every bill request was reviewed by the governor’s office, Hettrick said. Some were rejected, some were approved and some consolidated to keep the administration within the 100 limit.
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Please go away, Gibbons. You had your shot and you wasted it. You were more interested in your personal gratification instead of doing the job the "people" asked you to do. Just go to your tax-free land in Elko County and leave us alone.
"...elimination of mandatory collective bargaining for local governments."
Now THAT is a damned good idea!
Ditto what jpcortez said......
Yes, he kept his promises. And Nevada is now doing oh so much better than before. What a competent guy!
what gbigs said! Totally agree!
gbigs you're intolerance is showing again. Now for women. Gibbons called her bad names and it was a bad divorce. It takes 2 to make a marriage and 2 to brake it. There were problems on both sides that is privite. Not our business. His business is to be governor and he did a terrible job. You can ask any legislator and most will agree. Remember, he took a business trip on our tax dollars with a pussycat doll. And he also had problems with a law suit from a waitress. And Nevada went down the tubes. The wingnuts have to remember that the republican state legislator is a focal point in this economic mess and Gibbons is a big part of it. Time to take responsiblity and stop the hate.
Ya the god that got voted out by his own party! LOL
Gibgs, perhaps you can tell me. What happened that night in 2006 is a he said/she said. So which story is accurate:
HERS, that Gibbons tried to assault her sexually?
HIS, that he was simply trying to help an obviously drunken woman get behind the wheel of a car to go out in traffic?
Very godlike. Now, WHOSE impeachment did he vote for, again?
gbigs: It shows you are too close to the situation and cannot see the forest through the trees. If it were ex-Mrs. Gibbons you knew, you would be taking her side. When a nasty divorce happens, both sides are angry and both sides do wrong things. She stayed with him and helped his career for many years. She was married to him and has an entitlement to his money. How much? that is between the lawyers and the courts. Stop getting emotionally involved(although as a friend I can see how you would be) and stay out of it. It is best for friends not to take sides. That will make them good friends to both parties. And will be respected.
gbigs, I does not surprise me one wit that you "know gibbons personally". The two of you think a lot alike.
Ok, it is showing you are not reading what I said. I understand she is mad and getting back at him, and; that is between them. He shows he did alot of damage to the marriage and she did too. Whatever started this is between them. She is endorsing Reid because of Gibbon? He's leaving. I personally believe you are angry because she is campaigning against Angle. There must be a different reason for her to do this. This is not about Gibbon's friendship with you. This is about her helping Senator Reid. That bashing anyone isn't going to help you. The tea party is a force to deal with. They are angry and scared about the present and the future. Anger is fear and fear is false evidence appearing real.
By gbigs
[[THE ONLY GUY TO KEEP HIS PROMISES AND PROTECT TAXPAYERS.]]
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Yeah, a god in his own mind. Ask Carson Valley residents whose water rates are to go up 300% Oct. 1st and are on schedule to increase 1000% by 2014 just how efectivally Gibbons "kept his promise." I won't increase your taxes, I won't increas your taxes, he cried -- and nothing more than that. Our user fees went up expoentually in many other areas. Jerk.
Angle is not good as a person for gov't because she wants to destroy it. The state legislator is more so responsible for this economic mess because we are not educated in computers and the new technology to get us out of this mess. Angle was a big part in this distruction and her record proves it. If she goes to DC she will destroy Nevada. Even CEOs in the casino business are starting to support Senator Reid. They may go for Sandavol but they will not support her in the end.
Once again, Senator Reid did not cause the housing bust. THE BANKS DID! They sold inflated loans to us and then sold the bad paper to the world and we all went belly up except the hedge funders and Wall Street banks. And it was Bush who gave the loans to AIG and big banks with no payback and caused most of the national debt along with 2 unpaid wars and tax credit for the rich. The jobless rate is not the feds fault, it is the state. When the crash came no one came to Vegas because our economy is built on a luxury economy not a necessaty economy so after the subprimes and the people did not have money and not come here, layoffs came and put us further in ression. We are not diversified and we are not educated into tech jobs. So, how are we going to have jobs on hospitality and construction alone. That is the states failure on Education and Angle was a big part of that failure. Her record proves it.
elimination of mandatory collective bargaining for local governments
All they have to do is ammend NRS 288.150 2(a)
Let's all hope they do.
Good Grief.
gbigs' man-crush on the Goober, Gym Gibbons, can only mean one thing...
He IS GYM GIBBONS!!!
"Perfect Gentleman"...
Ha Ha Ha!!!
Worst Governor, crooked as a dog's hind leg, and a womanizer.
Yeah.
What a guy.
Typical RepubliKKKan.....just political Grandstanding on his way out!
True that. republikkkan
Comrade Gbigs,
Why don't you tell us about Gov. Gibbon's junket cruises paid by defense contractor Warren Trepp of eTrepid? Why don't you tell us about Congressman Gibbon's earmarks for eTrepid? Why don't you tell us about Gibbon's relationship with Reno/San Diego developer Roger Norman? How about some of Gibbon's relationships with Canadian and Australian mining companies operating in northern Nevada? How about Dawn Gibbon's "consultant fees" from defense contractor Sierra Nevada Corporation? How about Gibbon's relationships with Leslie Durant and Kathy Karrisch?
gbigs...Let it be known that gbigs, who floods these posts and trys to jam everything up with long screeds full of "facts" that consist largely of information that is either false, half-true, misleading or completely made up, is also juvenile enough to think that he is gaining traction by calling a former first lady a "turd." Ha! He also says he knows Sharron Angle personally and refers to her sterling record in the state legislature. Isn't that where she earned the nickname "41 to Angle" because she was continually against every single other member, Democrat or Republican? Just more evidence of her being extreme and wacky.
I have to say, all this blaming back and forth is getting VERY old. The sad fact of the matter is that (even though repubs would never admit it) there is NO WAY this economic crisis was caused by the current administration. Any political or economic analyst who says our country is in this situation because of decisions made by Obama since No. 2008 is a bold faced liar. Any Democrat who tells you Obama has not made any missteps since he took office is a bold faced liar. Until both parties can take responsibility for their part, we will never come to a solution. Imagine two kindergartners on the playground trying to settle a problem by shouting, "You started it." "No, YOU started it." "No, YOU started it FIRST". You think any situation would be resolved through that kind of dialogue? How about we all try to rise above this schoolyard level of debate?
GBIGS, again, you post every where. I'll ask you again, WHEN do you have time to work for a living? You sound like a man that has been dumped by his wife. Gibbons, a GOD???? The only thing he has contributed to is the increase in the GNP of viagra. Get it?