Political parties, generally, are made up of two sorts of regulars: The half-crazy and the full-on nuts.Anyone who has been to a central committee meeting knows this is indisputable. If you haven't, rent "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ...
What do you call a place where the secretary of state tells the Supreme Court that a lower court judge isn't doing his job on the most important political question of the decade — two weeks after the chief justice sent a ...
State Supreme Court's opinion misses the mark in special-election caseThe Nevada Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that political parties will be able to pick their candidates for the special election to replace Dean Heller in the House of Representatives.The ruling settles ...
Seems there's nothing like a deadline, or perhaps a U.S. House vacancy, to focus the mind.That mantra apparently applied to both the Legislature - which passed a bare bones special election law eight years ago - and the secretary of state ...
If only Secretary of State Dean Heller had written regulations for a House special election, we wouldn't have such controversy over filling Sen. Dean Heller's seat.But Heller did not, as a 2003 law instructed, write any rules, so now ...
It may not look quite like the space bar in "Star Wars" or, even freakier, a night at a party central committee meeting.But considering how open Nevada's first-ever House special election is supposed to be, Secretary of State Ross Miller ...
The law leaves the decision in a special election to voters, not the partiesEven before Gov. Brian Sandoval set a date this fall for a special election to fill Rep. Dean Heller's congressional seat, there was a battle over how it ...
CARSON CITY - Secretary of State Ross Miller opened the floodgates Monday when he announced the Sept. 13 special election for the 2nd Congressional District will be a free-for-all - an open ballot for any Republican or Democrat who is qualified to run.In ...