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Victor Joecks

Victor Joecks’ column appears in the Opinion section each Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
vjoecks@reviewjournal.com. Follow @victorjoecks on Twitter.

Left keeps playing footsie with mob

Political violence has come to Nevada, and it’s ugly. On Wednesday, Wilfred Michael Stark, a tracker with the far-left Super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, allegedly attacked Kristin Davison, the campaign manager for Adam Laxalt.

 
The paradox of Question 6

If everything Question 6 supporters say is true, there’s no need to vote for it. Question 6 is a constitutional amendment that would require that Nevada get 50 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2030. Nevada’s current renewable portfolio standard is 25 percent by 2025. As a constitutional amendment, voters would need to approve it in 2018 and 2020.

Democrats keep dodging debates

Despite having some of the most watched and expensive political races in the country, Nevadans won’t get to see many debates. There’s a reason for that. Jacky Rosen, Steve Sisolak and Susie Lee keep dodging them.

 
Sisolak’s health care specifics to be determined

Either Steve Sisolak doesn’t know how to improve Nevada health care or he thinks he can’t get elected telling voters what he wants to do. Neither possibility is comforting, but that’s the conclusion you’re left with after reading the health care plan he released Monday.

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CD3 candidate Lee frequently late paying her property taxes, utilities

Susie Lee has been repeatedly late paying property taxes and utility bills over the last dozen years, a Review-Journal investigation has uncovered. Lee’s late property tax payments resulted in over $1,300 in penalty and interest payments. She also had seven separate liens filed against three Las Vegas properties for unpaid sewer and solid waste service bills.

A clarifying question on Question 3

Talk is cheap. Leaving NV Energy isn’t. Large corporations have spent over $100 million to ditch NV Energy’s monopoly. Pass for Question 3, and you’ll have the same opportunity — with one major difference. It won’t cost you a dime.

The false promise of gun control

One year ago tomorrow, the unthinkable happened. The October 1 murders devastated families and tore gaping holes in the Las Vegas community. We’ll never again think that it can’t happen here.

 
Emotions or evidence? Thoughts on Ford, Kavanaugh

What do you do when two gripping personal narratives contradict each other? Your answer to that question will inform your thoughts on yesterday’s testimony by Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh.

 
Saunders talks Kavanaugh, FISA declassification, Trump visiting Vegas

Late-breaking allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have people in the nation’s capital going “crazy.” President Donald Trump, however, has shown a surprising level of restraint when talking about the issue. When Trump speaks before a crowd in Las Vegas, he will pronounce Nevada correctly. That’s according to the Review-Journal’s White House reporter Debra J. Saunders.

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