Nevada Democrats are riding high after this past legislative session. They expanded mail-in voting, banned ghost guns, and decriminalized minor traffic violations.
They also passed Assembly Bill 495, a new tax on the state’s gold and silver mines. It’s a decades-long feat that Democratic leaders say came down to the 11th hour.
But Native Americans say they were left out of those discussions.
“This is the one time, if ever, the tribes should be involved. It just did not happen,” said Brian Mason, a member of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation.
Mason explained that he and other tribal representatives tried to get involved in the conversation around the new mining tax early on, but had no luck.
Native Americans say they were left out of negotiations that led to a new tax on gold and silver mining and the revenue it generates from their own ancestral lands.
Laxalt is making plans to run against Cortez Masto this year. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo (R), North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee (R) and businessman Eddie Hamilton (R) have all said they will challenge Sisolak, though other candidates are considering the race.
The tumult in the Nevada Democratic Party recalls a similar schism on the other side of the aisle, among Nevada Republicans, a decade ago. In 2012, the Republican National Committee (RNC) moved to sideline the Nevada Republican Party, which had been taken over by acolytes of former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). The RNC and then-presidential nominee Mitt Romney
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A mining tax proposal introduced in the Nevada statehouse has revived longstanding debates about charter schools and tax credits that help pay for private school tuition. With less than a day remaining before the Legislature adjourns, Democrats must sway at least two Republicans in both the state Senate and Assembly to win the two-thirds support needed to pass a bill to increase taxes on mines.