From Citizen Outreach:

By: Chuck Muth

THE ALLEN FILES TURNS BIZARRE

OK, you all just aren’t going to believe this one.

Two nights ago, my least favorite Republican assemblywoman, Francis Allen, was arrested and spent the night in the clink for stabbing her husband of less than two months.

According to the official criminal complaint, Allen “committed the crime of battery constituting domestic violence” against her husband, Paul Maineri, “with use of a deadly weapon, to wit: a knife, by cutting the said Paul Maineri on the forearm with said knife.”

More details were outlined in the official arrest report. The argument apparently started after the happy couple had guests over the house and the hubby allegedly embarrassed the assemblywoman somehow. The argument heated up after the guests left and moved from the living room to the kitchen where the little missus “took a steak knife from the butcher’s block with her right hand and stabbed him with it in the left forearm.”

At that point the assemblywoman ran to her room and locked the door while hubby “pulled the knife out of his arm and put it on the kitchen floor.” He then went to the bedroom, forced the door open and “asked Allen for help.” She refused and told him to “call his mother.” Maineri then drove himself to Summerlin Hospital in Las Vegas where police were called, took his report, and then went back to the couple’s residence to slap the cuffs on “Slasher” Allen.

Allen told detectives that Maineri had stabbed himself. Detectives then re-interviewed Maineri at the hospital. Maineri tried to recant his statement, offering that “he would say that he stabbed himself if it would keep her from getting arrested.” It didn’t.

I’d say the honeymoon is over. As is her political career. Adios and good riddance.

PAULTARDS OF THE STATE, UNITE!

Certain wacko elements of the Ron Paul camp – which likely means the officious Jeff Greenspan is involved somehow – have reportedly sent out a press release announcing that they have obtained funding from an “angel” and will now attempt to reconvene the Nevada Republican Party convention themselves in Reno over the next couple of weeks.

This is…how to put it gently?...monumentally stupid. Even if these goofballs somehow pull off a gathering, there’s no way the Republican National Committee would ever recognize a “convention” called by any entity other than the Nevada Republican Party and they’ll simply refuse to credential any “delegates” elected at a such rogue confab. This is an exercise in…how did I put it again?...oh yeah, monumental stupidity

The Nevada GOP has tried to work fairly and cooperatively with Ron Paul’s supporters in this state, but the Paultards among them are out of control and completely unhinged. While the party is attempting to do what the party is responsible for doing regarding the election of delegates to the national convention, the Paultards are doing everything in their power to gum up the works and hijack the operation. GOP leaders have tried to accommodate and work with the Ron Paul supporters, but the paranoid Paultards among them have continually rebuffed their entreaties and slapped them in the face.

This latest effort may finally break the party’s patience with these shenanigans. The Paultards may be happy wasting time and energy debating, ad nauseum, obscure and disputed interpretations of Roberts Rules of Order, but candidate filing for office in Nevada is now closed and it’s time to start the serious work of actually electing candidates. And since Ron Paul doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the GOP presidential nomination, it’s time to put an end to these childish and useless maneuverings.

SO MUCH FOR BEING “GOOD REPUBLICANS”

Which reminds me, the Republicans have recruited an outstanding candidate – former Secretary of State Cheryl Lau – to run for the assembly seat in Carson City which is currently held by Democrat Bonnie Parnell. And one of the leading ring leaders of the Paultards in Carson City is a guy named John Wagner. So what did Wagner do? Did he throw his support behind the GOP challenger in an effort to pick up a seat in the assembly? No. Instead he changed parties and filed to run for the same seat as an Independent American. What a great, dedicated Republican, huh?

So the claims by many Paultards that they are just trying to be good Republicans is pure flapdoodle. These people are all about these people and they couldn’t care less about the party. Not that I do, either, but I’m not pretending to.

Perhaps it’s time for the Nevada GOP to stop wet-nursing the Paultards and just kick ‘em to the curb. Their 15 minutes of fame are up. Just do a mail-in ballot for national delegates and get it over with, quickly and inexpensively. The state delegates have been officially credentialed and the nominations to attend the national convention have been officially submitted…both by the nominating committee and from the floor at the Reno convention. The only thing left to do is vote. So just print up some ballots with all the nominated candidates’ names on it, mail the ballots out, and may the best Republicans win.

Also, there were numerous reports of voting irregularities at the Reno convention for the nine congressional district slots. Those election results should be scrapped and a new mail-in election should take place – with proper controls to make sure people in one congressional district aren’t voting in another congressional district – along with the mail-in balloting for at-large delegates.

The Paultards will yelp like scalded dogs, but.who cares? They’re going to whine, bitch, moan and complain no matter what the party does. So just do what’s in the best interest of the party and let the chips fall where they may. Enough is enough.

TAX HIKE BY ANY OTHER MEANS STILL STINKS

Some members of Nevada’s gaming community struck a last-minute deal with the state’s teachers union yesterday whereby the union agreed not to turn in the signatures it says it had collected to put a tax hike on the gaming industry on the ballot this November. Instead, said gamers have agreed to a scheme whereby local county commissions will be urged to place an “advisory question” on the ballot this fall in an effort to increase the room tax, thereby royally screwing our state’s tourists who won’t get a chance to vote on it. In other words, taxation without representation.

And for what? To pay teachers more money. Teachers who have cranked out such stellar results as 90 percent of high school students in Clark County failing a basic Algebra test. Yeah, baby!

Now that the deal is finalized, we’re left wondering EXACTLY where the governor is on it. There is no doubt that this new proposal is an effort to raise taxes. And even if the advisory questions pass in all 17 counties, it would still require a vote by the Legislature and signature by the governor to take effect.

Some advisers close to the governor tell me he won’t sign onto the deal. But the governor’s press secretary indicated just two weeks ago that the governor would be OK with it as long as the people got to vote on it. However, signing it would be a major violation of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which reads, once again and in its entirety, as follows:

“I, Jim Gibbons, pledge to the taxpayers of Nevada, and all the people of this State, that I will oppose and veto any and all efforts to increase taxes.”

There is no “vote of the people” loophole in the Pledge no matter how hard some people try to find one. It doesn’t say the governor will “oppose and veto any and all efforts to increase taxes…unless the gaming industry and the teachers union agree to get the various country commissions to put an advisory question on the ballot and the people vote for it.” It says simply that he will “oppose and veto any and all efforts to increase taxes.” Period.

So will he…or won’t he? Inquiring taxpayer minds wanna know.

UH-OH: THIS JUST IN...

As I was about to go to press, Jon Ralston “Flashed” the text of an interview Gov. Gibbons just did with Gary Waddell of KLAS-TV in Las Vegas. When asked about the deal the gamers and the teachers union have put together with an “advisory question” being placed on the ballot by county commissioners this fall, the governor’s response included this troubling sentence:

“If this is something that the voters of Nevada want to approve and send it to the legislature, so be it.”

Now…read my lips:

NEITHER THE VOTERS NOR THE TAXPAYERS NOR NEVADA’S TOURISTS HAVE HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS DEAL!

This is a scheme cooked up by a greedy union trying to get more money for its members and an industry trying to keep its own goose from being cooked by trying to cook someone else’s goose. Taxpayers weren’t part of the negotiations. Voters weren’t part of the negotiations. Tourists weren’t part of the negotiations. There is NO PUBLIC component involved in this tax hike scheme. None. Zilch. Nada. This is an effort to raise taxes by two special interests, not “the people.”

So, Gov. Gibbons, why can’t you just…say…no?

THE UNION LABEL

Amazingly, the International Union of Security, Police and Fire Professionals doesn’t see a problem with allowing a man accused of stalking his girlfriend and has compared employers to terrorists to act as an official organizer in Nevada at the MGM Mirage. It does not speak well of the union to work with such a nut as Steve Maritas, but they are doing so nonetheless. Read all about it HERE

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

Jon Ralston has posted the full Francis Allen police report on his blog HERE

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