Comments by peas2all - Las Vegas Sun

Comments by user: peas2all

Posted on: Reid to Gibbons on Medicaid funding: We are in this together and I bring home the bacon

Why is it "pork" (bad) when it happens in another State and "economic development" (good) when it's your own.

The reason Nevada gets so little federal funding for its programs is because most of it is tied, as a percentage, to State spending on the same programs. If the State can't be bothered funding programs for its own citizen's why should the federal government be bothered?

(Suggest removal) 9/15/09 at 7:33 p.m.

Posted on: Suddenly, Gibbons meeting with lawmakers, Democrats included

Hey Neiman, it's the Governor's fault. Letting a rotating group of (very small) business owners roll you out of the closet every few months, dust you off, put you in a new (mock) turtleneck and then pulling your string thereby releasing the same tired phrase "no new taxes" before rolling you back into the closet is NOT leadership.

BTW, why does a staff of approximately 47 need a Chief of Staff and two Deputies? Not a riddle, just curious.

(Suggest removal) 9/15/09 at 7:20 p.m.

Posted on: How state furloughs will work, for now

This is the same Shelley Blotter that recently tried to give herself a 10% salary increase when she was acting director for about five minutes. It's okay if SHE's making more money, just not anyone that's actually doing work.

http://dop.nv.gov/PCmin22709.pdf

(Suggest removal) 7/1/09 at 5:56 p.m.

Posted on: Appointment to top tourism post is starting to look shaky

Gibbons tried the same thing to appoint a position to the Taxicab Authority. The Attorney General's office found he had no authority to make that appointment either.

(Suggest removal) 12/31/08 at 9:29 a.m.