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There are six general election ballot questions this year. You can view the explanations and arguments, as well as the full legal text here. Today we’ll take a look at the first three:
STATE QUESTION NUM. 1 Amendment to the Nevada Constitution
Senate Joint Resolution No. 17 of the 78th Session
Senate Joint Resolution No. 17 of the 78th Session
Shall the Nevada Constitution be amended to: (1) remove existing provisions that require the Legislature to provide certain statutory rights for crime victims; and (2) adopt in their place certain expressly stated constitutional rights that crime victims may assert throughout the criminal or juvenile justice process?
STATE QUESTION NUM. 2 Amendment to the Sales and Use Tax Act of 1955
Senate Bill 415 of the 79th Session
Senate Bill 415 of the 79th Session
Shall the Sales and Use Tax Act of 1955 be amended to provide an exemption from the taxes imposed by this Act on the gross receipts from the sale and the storage, use or other consumption of feminine hygiene products?
STATE QUESTION NUM. 3 Amendment to the Nevada Constitution
Shall Article 1 of the Nevada Constitution be amended to require the Legislature to provide by law for the establishment of an open, competitive retail electric energy market that prohibits the granting of monopolies and exclusive franchises for the generation of electricity
Ballot Question 1 is Marsy’s Law (victim’s bill of rights) and is, perhaps, the one that lawyers are most qualified or best positioned to opine on. What do you think? Ballot Question 3 about energy is also getting a lot of attention. How do you think people should vote and why?
While there are certainly arguments to be made in favor of energy deregulation, I see no reason why this issue should be anywhere near the Nevada Constitution. Let the legislature handle it.
8:35 AM, I agree. I am voting NO on all ballot questions. That is what we hire legislators for. Having the constitution deal with the electricity issue is insane. If deregulating electricity is in fact in our best interests, then we need to let our state legislators know and get them to pass a bill.
For Question 2 specifically, it was approved by the Legislature and the Governor, but changes to the Sales and Use Tax Act require voter approval to be effective, so there is no option other than making it a ballot question.
No. Yes. No.
My co-sign was meant for here.
Co-sign.
Just heard that Assembly Candidate Dennis Hof has died.
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/brothel-owner-assembly-candidate-dennis-hof-dead-at-72
Voting "NO" on all ballot measures. No. 3, putting energy deregulation in the state constitution is a stupid idea. This needs to be defeated. The State can experiment with tweaking the energy markets without mandating it in the Constitution. I own a house in another state which has energy choice and get bombarded with crazy calls to switch providers. It is nuts. I am voting NO on the measure with DMV Voter registration. In California, they register illegals who must "opt" out. They call the DMV in California, the Division of Mexican Voting. They had issues with it in Colorado. DMV has enough on their plate. There is no verification of citizenship at DMV–it is a simple yes or no. If you have a driver's license or ID card, you can register. DMV makes mistakes with licenses, now we are going to give them power to decide who gets to vote. No thank you. Who is behind this measure. There are many residents who are not citizens who incorrectly believe they are citizens and who will vote. For example, they did not complete the paperwork from the 1986 Immigration Reform Act. They own property and may even have a legitimate social security numbers.
Yes on 1. Victims deserve to be heard.
No on 2. Why are women entitled to special treatment?
Yes on 3. Free market is best for all.
No on 1. Victims can sue. Meh on 2. We exempt all sorts of things from tax, including unprepared food, newspapers, and Tesla-owned real property. I don't have a real problem with exempting feminine hygiene products. 3. Free is market is best for all – agreed. If you see anything resembling a free market in the energy production sector, you feel free to embrace it. This ain't it, anymore than the government healthcare exchange is a free market. This is Sheldon Adelson trying to get away from paying NV Energy. No to 3.
Good point on No. 3. A post-deregulation "free market" utopia is nonsense. You're replacing a monopoly with an oligopoly. But at least we'll start to get predatory marketing practices in a brand new industry and more junk mail.
Or I should say a regulated monopoly with an unregulated oligopoly.
No. 2. How is it special treatment if men do not have to purchase feminine hygiene products and be taxed on them?
Do judges receive unlimited vacation? When they aren't on the bench, do they actually do anything? I am shocked at how little these judges work. I practiced in Arizona before coming here. This crap would never fly there. I'd love for someone to publish some statistics on hours worked by each judge versus time off taken. Perhaps even calculate what their hourly pay equates to based on hours worked. I bet the figures would be astonishing.
Yes they get unlimited sick/vacation time. That being said, not having a calendar any specific day does not automatically equal being on vacation. Cases settle, hearings/trials are vacated at the last moment by the parties, etc. Judges may be in the courthouse in chambers working on decisions and/or administrative matters, in meetings, etc. They may also be off property at conferences, education events (CLE, Judicial College, specialty education, etc.) Finally, they may simply be on vacation. Some judges do take an exorbitant amount of vacation time whereas others (a minority, admittedly) take little actual vacation time.
Off topic, but is anybody else skeptical that our fearless leader will do anything about the murdered journalist? It's hard to tell the world that journalists are the enemy of the people then feign horror when a journalist – and a foreign one at that – is murdered by a country he has significant financial ties to. Luckily our Congress is sure to act.
Just read that they dismembered him while he was alive. Heartbreaking.
I doubt the public will ever know the truth of what happened. As an initial matter, I find it very hard to believe that the Turkish government could have recordings of anything that may (or may not) have occurred inside a Saudi diplomatic compound.
The objective facts are:
1) the journalist was seen entering the compound;
2) the journalist was not seen exiting the compound;
3) a diplomatic van was seen exiting the compound and driving around Turkey for most of the day;
4) the journalist has not been seen or heard from since he entered the compound.
Granted, a homicide is a possible explanation for the known facts, however, it is not the only possible explanation. In the absence of a body or witness to the death, the secrecy that diplomatic cover provides, and the involvement of official government entities, other explanations are also possible.
One such obvious possible alternative explanation would be that he was very much alive and exited the compound within the diplomatic van. Such an exit could be either voluntary or involuntary.
The Saudis killed him. Accidentally-on-purpose during an interrogation, but they killed him. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jamal-khashoggi-saudi-government-preparing-to-say-missing-journalist-was-killed-during-interrogation-gone-wrong/
The cars carrying the interrogation went to the Saudi Consul General's residence afterward. Which is probably why the Saudi Consul general to Turkey then got the hell out of dodge once it became clear the Turks were coming to investigate his house.
But sure. The House of Saud is pure as the driven snow.
You left out the cleaning team that entered the building ahead of the “joint inspection,” reports that turkey found evidence of a murder, the consul general leaving the country right before his house is searched, and the Saudi team of defense and medical people who came to Istanbul just for that day. But it also could have been some guy sitting on his bed who weighs 400 pounds.
"We need Saudi Arabia" -Our Fearless Leader.
I think that's chapter 1 of Art of the Deal. Let the other side know that you fear losing your relationship with them.
@9:58; And the media has never reported any erroneous or misinterpreted information…
Whether the reporting is true or incorrect, intentional or inadvertent, we the lemmings are unlikely to ever know the full truth. That becomes even more a risk when official governments are involved as the source for the story. Governments have vested interests in spinning facts to suit their needs, coupled with the ability to "create" facts to suit the story being told.
It is entirely possible that the story being circulated in the media is 100% accurate. Similarly, it is entirely possible that the same story is 100% planted and false.
Consider this possible scenario.. The missing reporter was in fact an agent of the Saudi intelligence services. He had been living a long term identity created by the intelligence services. For some reason a decision was made to "kill off that identity" (compromised or otherwise no longer useful to the Saudi government for it to exist) and they wanted to do it in a public manner so that people didn't look for the person under a new identity.
The Saudi's stage an event like this where there is lots of noise and innuendos but no direct evidence of what actually happened. They issue the guy a diplomatic passport (with a new identity) and transport him out of Turkey under diplomatic cover during the confusion caused by the disappearance of the old "identity".
I'm not saying I know what happened, or even the above scenario even occurred, just making a point that simply because something was reported (TV, radio, newsprint, internet, etc.) does not make it true. The only think that is true is actual facts, spin and interpretations of facts can and are manipulated for various reasons.
@12:00 Do you also believe that there was a child-sex ring inside a pizza parlor? Because you seem the type to believe almost anything that is negative about Trump. You should write fiction.
@12:00, Saudi state-run media is reporting Khashoggi is dead, as a result of a "fight" within the consulate, which apparently involved at least 18 other people.