The Nevada Primary Early
Voting begins Saturday, July 26th and runs two full weeks
through Friday, August 8th with the final day to cast your
ballot and vote on Primary Election Day, Tuesday, August 12th
- remember voting early will help bring and end to those pestering political
phone calls! Once you tell them you’ve voted, and they check the voting rolls
and determine that you have, in fact, voted – they won’t be bothering you again
until the next election cycle – so, be smart, vote smart – vote
early!
Partisan Elected Positions:
It is with great enthusiasm
and joy that I whole-hearted endorse “The Three Amiga’s”
Congressional District #1
- Shelley Berkley – Congresswoman Berkley has earned the respect of
nearly everyone as evidenced by her widely popular reputation and landslide
victories – and Shelley the highest rating from both the Disabled American
Veterans (DAV) and Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) – absolutely impeccable
credentials!
www.berkleyforcongress.com
Congressional District #2
- Jill Derby – Challenger Derby is a fourth generation Nevada. Her
father is an Air Force Veteran and she is staunch supporter of our military,
veterans and military families. Jill has a solid academic background, with a
bachelor’s, masters and PhD in anthropology – she understands the vast value of
diversity in democracy and that will represent all of the citizens of Nevada
CD-02 equally. Let’s be real, it’s quite obvious the current incumbent only
represents his wealthy campaign contributors and private donors – and he’s not
done much other than prove he’s typically mediocre!
www.jillderby.com
Congressional
District #3 -
Dina Titus – Challenger Titus is the epitome of a citizen and
stateswoman! She is down-to-earth, easily approachable, always well informed,
candid open, honest, hard-working and ethically solid – Dina can debate with
best and knows how to fight-the-good-fight! She’s conservative on the
environment, moderate on most issues and liberal on personal freedoms and civil
liberties – we couldn’t ask for more! The incumbent has proven he only cares
about his wealthy donors, has voted against the needs of our military, veterans
and military families and has been a Bush “bag-boy” and “political puppet” for
the wealthy and powerful – it’s time to soundly vote this bum out!
www.dinatitus.com
County
Commission District C
– Current City Councilman Larry Brown is running to fill the seat being
vacated by Chip Maxfield. I’ve watched and listened closely to Larry Brown
(over his tenure as a City Councilman) and he has an open heart, critically
acute mind and is absolutely thorough and fair in his analysis on the issues.
Larry Brown is a solid, highly ethical citizen-representative and an impressive
guy in everyway!
Non-Partisan Elected
Positions:
This year, for the first
time, I’m putting out my public picks for legislative positions. I’m doing this
to emphasize how critically important our legislative branch of government is
especially, at this sad time when we can’t trust the President and Congress is
grid-locked!
Nevada
Supreme Court:
Justice
of the Nevada Supreme Court, Seat B
– Nancy Lee Allf is a highly experienced attorney with a solid decade of
experience. She’s from a military family, and comes to this race with an
extensive and impressive list of endorsements. I’ve met Nancy and she is
clearly a committed, strong supporter of the Constitution and active advocate of
our 2nd Amendment Rights! In short, I really liked everything about
this lady lawyer / candidate, I was very impressed – we need her on the “big
bench” to ensure justice for all Nevadans.
www.nancyallf.com
So, how is it when all of us
are so busy, that we actually have the time to determine who all these other
people are on the ballot and who’s the best candidate to vote for? I do it
first and foremost by noting which candidates have sought out my endorsement and
let me grill them on their background and the issues of the day – most do not
pass this test! Then, I watch who actually shows up at the wide range of
political “meet & greet” events (and cross off those who don’t show up and think
they can win on a wing and a prayer by “mailing it in”) as they say. Finally,
after getting my curiosity satiated, I make my final decision by just calling
trusted friends in the legal and academic communities and taking their advice!
What the heck more can a citizen doing our due diligence - DO? So here are my
“non-partisan” picks…
District Court Judges:
Department 1 – Ken Cory
Department 2 – Valorie J. Vega
Department 3 – Douglas W. Herndon
Department 4 – Kathy A. Hardcastle
Department 5 – Jackie Glass
Department 9 – Jennifer P. Togliatti
Department 10 – Ian Christopherson
Department 11 – Betsy Gonzalez
Department 13 – Mark Ralph Denton
Department 14 – Donald M. Mosley
Department 15 – Abbi Silver
Department 16 – Tim Williams
Department 18 – David Barker
Department 19 – Allen R. Earl
Department 20 – David T. Wall
Department 21 – Valerie Adair
Department 23 – Jason Landess
Department 24 – James M. Bixler
Department 25 – Kathleen E. Delaney
Family Court Judges:
Department H – Art Ritchie
Department J – Lisa M. Kent
Department K – Vincent Ochoa
Department M – William Potter
Department N – Gayle Beck Nathan
Department O – Frank P. Sullivan
Department Q – Carl F. Piazza
Department R – Bill Henderson
Trustee, Clark County School District E:
Caroline Sanchez-Rangen
is a active wife and mother in the community and passionate about children and
educational reforms – especially for our disabled kids – and she’s got the fire
in the belly to ask the tough questions and demand results! I know her
personally, we live in the same Precinct, and we’ve walk neighborhoods, knocked
on doors, and talked to countless neighbors together – she’s the “real” deal!
Justice of the Peace, Las Vegas:
Department 4 – Melissa A. Saragosa
Department 11 – Eric A. Goodman
Department 12 – Diana L. Sullivan
Justice of the Peace, Henderson:
Department 3 – Sandy Allred-DiGiacomo
North Las Vegas Justice of the Peace:
Department 3 – Jonathan MacArthur
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