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lvice

" A group of moderate and liberal Democrats, with Reid's encouragement, has been meeting in private..."

Do you really not see the problem with this statement? Where is the "openness" and bi-partisanship" of the new era that the democrats promised? There is not anyone less honest or more crooked in the US Senate than Harry Reid.

Are we seriously interested in what Raggio thinks about re-elections? His track record is spotty at best.
1) Lost both Beers and Hecks re-elections because he wouldnt put more caucus money into their campaigns.
2) Supported Gulliani for the presidential nomination. (did he win any states?)
3) Supporting Denis Nolan, the most unelectable man in the Senate.
4) Barely won his own re-election and only then by completely lying. Said he would never raise taxes....what a joke. He has always been for every tax increase.

These imagined articles are really pretty lame. Do some work, find some real info and write. Not that hard.

Who "Slim" probably is shouldn't be that hard to figure out. There was a particular person that always was with Andre, shown on TV at matches etc, during this time. That same person may have had some run ins with the law as well. This isn't rocket science...just needs a little investigative journalism...

"Increases in the cost of corrections"- How about the cost cuts to corrections that they implemented in the Phoenix area? Tent camps and PB and Jelly sandwiches ought to bring down costs a bit.

"Medicaid"- Any med student that gets any type of financial aid needs to payback by working in low-income clinics for a couple of years. Keep people that are not in emergency situations out of the ER rooms and we decrease costs right away. What % of medicaid ends up going to care for illegals? I really don't know but figure it ought to be asked.

"and public employee pension plans also are challenging."- Funny how John seems to skip right past commenting on this at all. Much easier to go after the R's to change the tax base. (which of course will lay the groundwork for making it easier to continually raise taxes in the future)
Nobody in the private sector is given a pension anymore. Why is just a given that you get one if you work for the government? In the past you made less salary in government so you had to have the benefits to get anyone worth anything to work for you. That just isn't true anymore. Start fire, police etc at 35k per year w/o pensions and you will still have 1000's show up at each hiring fair.

"The Legislature has diverted unprecedented amounts of local government revenue to balance the state budget."- This was/is a joke and the leadership of the legislature should all lose their jobs over it. (by the way, why didn't John go after Buckley or Horsford about this? Oh yeah according to John its all the Gov's fault)