Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Democratic leader Kirkpatrick urges courage, compromise to raise taxes

Tesla Special Session Day 2

Cathleen Allison / AP

Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick, D-North Las Vegas, speaks on the Assembly floor during the second day of a special session at the Nevada Legislature on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, in Carson City.

CARSON CITY — Democratic Assembly Leader Marilyn Kirkpatrick is urging members of both parties to have the courage to make the hard choices Republican Gov. Sandoval outlined in a broad plan to raise taxes to improve education.

Kirkpatrick was the speaker of the Assembly before Republicans won control of both houses in November for the first time in 20 years.

She said after Sandoval's State of the State speech Thursday night that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have gotten used to failing to get things done because they refuse to compromise.

Kirkpatrick says improving Nevada's schools and universities will require "give and take" on all sides.

She also emphasized not everyone is sharing in the state's economic recovery and that more must be done to help the poor and working-class families.

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