THE LOWDEN LINE

Yesterday, Jeff Greenspan and Brian Kominsky of the Ron Paul campaign sent out an email update which included the following…

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Dear Nevada Delegate: I would like to thank you and everyone who attended last weekend’s Republican State Convention in Reno. We had a record turnout and we are pleased that so many Nevada Republicans chose to participate.

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In the latest round of budget cuts, it was decided to take $17.5 million out of a fund which had been set aside to cover an expected $3 billion-plus “unfunded liability” Nevada taxpayers face in the state’s retirement benefits account for government employees in the future. It’s sort of like what the federal government does when it takes money from the Social Security trust fund for ongoing operations.

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If you’ll be in the Reno area next Friday night (April 25th), please join us at our first-ever “Governor’s Boots and Rhinestones” ball at the Peppermill Hotel & Casino. The ball will be the big kick-off event for what I expect will be the biggest Nevada Republican Party state convention in history, which will start promptly at 9:00 am the following morning. Tickets are $250 per person…unless you are a convention delegate, which means you can get tickets at the special discounted price of just $150 per person.

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Nevada state Sen. Bob Beers (R-Las Vegas), perhaps the state’s most consistent and principled fiscally conservative legislator in Carson City today, noted in his blog this week that “compared to a year ago, there are 4,100 more government employees and 2,800 fewer private sector employees.” What’s that tell you?

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I keep hearing voices, generally in my Left ear, constantly telling us that there is this great demand for more government services out there and that this demand is the reason why we need tax hikes. But where is this demand?

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Amazingly, some people still say the fiscal problem we face in Nevada is that taxes aren’t high enough rather than that spending is too high. Well get this from a March 27th article titled “The Best & Worst States for Taxes” from MoneyCentral at MSN.com:

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The Nevada University Board of Regents meets in Carson City this week. On tap - amidst the very serious problem of a slowing economy and the need for further belt-tightening across the state government - will be, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal, a proposal to create a “diversity task force to increase the number of minority staff, faculty, administrators and students at public universities and colleges statewide.”

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There are two competing thoughts on the proper role of the Republican Party when it comes to primary elections. The first is the one followed in Nevada, where the party stays out of primaries and then backs whichever candidate goes on to the general election.

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Nevada’s economy is still slow, which means the Governor may need to call for even additional reductions in the spending increases approved by the Legislature last year. And that has the apocalyptic Chicken Littles in full throat once again.

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