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How the energy choice affects rural Nevadans By Thomas Mitchell would amend the state Constitution, the people they serve for the people Part one of a two-part series it is back on the ballot this fall for they serve. So at a very fundamental One of the big questions linger- final voter approval, but now a level that is choice.” ing about a constitutional amend- coalition headed by NV Energy is None of the rules will be written ment on the November ballot that campaigning to defeat it. until and unless it passes again in would end electric power monopo- David Luttrell — general man- November and goes to lawmakers. lies and create an open competitive ager of the Lincoln County Power Luttrell said what is really going market for electricity is: Just how District No. 1, president of the Ne- on at this stage is a kind of record will it affect customers of rural vada Rural Electric Association and building and fact finding. Nevada’s power cooperatives? a member of the Governor’s Com- “If you look at some of the Question 3 on the 2016 Gen- mittee on Energy Choice — said comments of proponents of energy eral Election ballot — the Energy his power district has not joined the choice, one of the things they very Choice Initiative (ECI) — passed coalition opposing the initiative, but strongly believe is that existing by an overwhelming 72.4 percent to he is concerned the initiative’s im- utilities do not and are not allowed 27.6 percent. Because the measure pact on rural Nevada, should it pass, to be retail energy providers, and is not being adequately addressed. their argument, I understand, I get “As we’re moving toward en- the basis of their argument, is that My Point ergy choice we were hopeful that an existing utility, retail energy there would be some recognition provider, they do have an advantage of View that the rural organizations, by that others that want to come into By Rolando Larraz definition, offer choice, so there are the area will not be able to compete choices,” Luttrell said in a recent against,” he said. A few “friends” and other so- interview. “They were created by (See Energy Choice, Page 3) called friends have taken the time to call me to warn me of the “dan- gers” that I am taking upon myself by attacking the president of the Bottom line when students Las Vegas Latin Chamber of Com- merce, Peter Guzman, because he is a “well connected person” — and switch to charter schools I laugh at those words. Do I laugh because I think I am By Thomas Mitchell the exit of 1,400 students would a “superman”? No, I do not because Recently the morning newspa- reduce spending by $11.9 million. I am not, and certainly not now that per reported that the Clark County Lose $9 million in revenue but cut I am old and sick. I never thought School District plans to create a spending by $11.9 million, sounds I would be a superman because the job — costing $117,000 — whose like a savings of $2.9 million. supermen are the first ones to go purpose will be to slow the number Spending $117,000 to avoid down; I laugh because I have been of students bailing out of the district saving $2.9 million? Where’s the in Las Vegas all my adult life and a and opting to attend charter schools. logic in that? long time ago I learned that in Las “When a child leaves the school “This is a position that is expect- Vegas there is no such a thing as a district for a charter school, the state ed to raise money for the district “well connected” person. per-pupil funding and some local by bringing children back in. It In Nevada some of the most revenues that would have gone to will pay for itself,” School Board powerful people hold positions Clark County departs as well,” the revenue, how is that a drain? er-than-expected charter school member Carolyn Edwards was such as governor, sheriff, and dis- story explains. Back in December the newspa- enrollment would cost the district quoted as saying. “In essence, it’s trict attorney, and as long as you are Some local revenues, but not per reported that the district issued $9 million in lost revenue. not a cut, it’s actually an increase not “interfering” with any of their all. If the district unloads the entire a statement saying 1,400 more According to CCSD, the dis- to the budget.” other friends, you are ... well ... a expense of educating the departing students enrolled in a charter school trict’s 2016-17 budget had per-pupil Besides, what would the job “well connected person.” student but retains some of the local than projected, and this high- expenditures at $8,512, meaning entail? Cajoling? Badgering? I used to have lunch with former District Attorney Rex Bell when he was sober; and even with former Sheriff John Moran, who I thought Trump VA pick boosts hopes for reform was my friend; he and his wife By Nathaniel Weixel Republicans and Democrats, and in implementing some of the big- Goldie were guests in my home, The Hill outside advocacy groups hope he gest reforms to the VA in decades. where my family resided. But President Trump’s selection of will avoid getting mired in the same Trump is expected to sign into when he betrayed me, the lunches Robert Wilkie to lead the Depart- ongoing fight over privatization law the VA Mission Act, a $55 stopped. ment of Veterans Affairs (VA) is that beset his predecessor, former billion bipartisan bill that, among Former Sheriff John McCarthy being praised by veterans groups Secretary David Shulkin. other policies, will change how the used to visit my home, where my as a safe, stabilizing move in the “The VA has had six different agency pays for private care. family lived, unannounced and aftermath of the failed nomination leaders in the last five years; it’s Under the bill, VA doctors will frequently, and I did not have to of former White House physician facing systemic problems. All the decide when a veteran should see wait to get in to see him at police Ronny Jackson. tumultuous changes are not good a private-sector provider, replacing headquarters, but when I disagreed Wilkie, who is serving as acting for veterans,” said John Hoellwarth, the complicated systems that are with him, the “friendship” stopped. VA secretary, is a Washington in- national communications director used today. Former District Attorney Stew- sider with years of administrative for AMVETS, a veterans service It also includes a one-year ex- art Bell was not as “noticeable” but experience who has previously organization. “Veterans benefit tension of the VA Choice program, we never had as many lunches as worked on Capitol Hill as well as from continuity.” which was the result of the VA his counterpart Rex and I did; and in the Pentagon for two presidents. If confirmed, Wilkie will have to health scandal that cost Obama-era in my humble opinion, when my He’s drawn praise from both ROBERT WILKIE walk a tightrope if he is to succeed (See Wilkie, Page 4) former friend Sheriff John Moran betrayed me, Stewart did not take sides and a few times we had lunch ABC cancels ‘Roseanne’ following at the famous Golden Nugget Hotel and we even celebrated with his daughter when she decided to run racist tweet on Valerie Jarrett for District Court Judge. By Judy Kurtz Jarrett, the former aide to President Dungey said in a statement an- As long as you are a good puppet The Hill Obama. nouncing the end of the “Roseanne” you are considered “a well connect- ABC canceled its top-rated com- “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is reboot, a politically tinged show ed person” in Las Vegas, and that is edy “Roseanne” on Tuesday in a abhorrent, repugnant and inconsis- and ratings monster. what I cannot be — a good puppet stunning move that came just hours tent with our values, and we have Roseanne Barr, a 65-year-old — and when I decided to take Steve after the show’s star Roseanne Barr decided to cancel her show,” ABC comedian and staunch Trump Wynn’s side when Sheriff Moran posted a racist tweet about Valerie Entertainment President Channing defender, had written that the ex- wanted my help to stab Wynn in the back, I refused to participate in the whole charade. White House seeks to save Later, when Moran and Wynn kissed and made up it was the pow- erful casino owner’s time to stab me summit with North Korea in the back, but that is another story. By Rebecca Kheel New York. ROSEANNE BARR I am not bragging about the im- The Hill On Tuesday, Trump said North Korea had a “solid White House adviser was the child portant people I may have known; The Trump administration is scrambling to save response” to his letter, the latest sign the summit may of the Islamist organization Muslim I am making a point to these a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un be back on. Brotherhood and the movie “Planet “friends” who are concerned about less than a week after President Trump canceled the It’s unclear whether the originally scheduled date of the Apes.” me upsetting a man as powerful meeting. of June 12 is still achievable, but Trump appears intent “Muslim brotherhood & planet as Peter Guzman, whose power is Since Trump’s Thursday letter calling off the sit- on meeting with Kim sooner rather than later. of the apes had a baby=vj,” Barr only the heritage of “My Otto,” as down, there’s been a flurry of diplomatic activity, in- “It’s far harder to keep up with and predict Korean wrote on Tuesday morning, using he used to refer to Otto Merida, the cluding U.S. teams going to Singapore and the Korean developments. We’re in uncharted water,” said Bruce Jarrett’s initials. The message was (See My Point of View, Page 2) Peninsula and a top North Korean official traveling to (See Korea Summitt, Page 3) (See Roseanne, Page 5) Page 2 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / May 30-June 5, 2018 House GOP prepares to consider Trump’s $15 billion clawback By Juliegrace Brufke While the package still faces told The Hill in a statement. “The The Hill some pushback — with critics House is expected to consider it House Republicans are pre- fearing it could hinder future bipar- when we return from the district paring to take action on a $15 tisan negotiations — House GOP work period.” Conservative ac- billion rescissions package in leadership is currently whipping tivist groups including Freedom- coming weeks amid a conservative the measure as pressure mounts Works, the Heritage Foundation push for Congress to claw back on the party’s lawmakers to slash and Tea Party Patriots have recently spending as lawmakers return spending ahead of the midterm expressed their support of the idea, from recess. The White House election cycle. “Support for the pushing Republicans to act on the is considering tweaking its initial President’s rescissions request is rollback in funding in the wake of proposal — an idea spearheaded by growing by the day and Leader Congress passing its $1.3 trillion House Majority Leader Kevin Mc- McCarthy continues to actively omnibus spending bill. “Small Carthy (R-Calif.) after discussions support the whip operation to send steps are better than no steps. Often- with President Trump in April — as these spending cuts to the Senate,” times, these unobligated funds are GOP leadership is still short of the McCarthy spokesman Matt Sparks (See Clawback, Page 5) votes needed to pass the measure. My Point of View (Continued from Page 1) couldn’t care less if the person who television show, and now I have “fabricate” another false package former president of the Las Vegas asks me to do something dishonest my own YouTube channel, so it is to place in my desk, I have nothing Latin Chamber of Commerce, who is the sheriff, an “important” casino not that I am hiding from anyone; to worry about and I have nothing TRIBUNE forced him into replacing him with- owner, or the Pope; my dignity and it is that I believe that newspapers to do with the Federal Trade Com- VOL. 20, NO. 13 out a board vote. my self-respect is way more import- are there to publicize others — not mission because newspapers are Peter Guzman is the president ant to me than rubbing elbows with for the owner of the publication to not regulated by the Federal Trade FOUNDER of the Las Vegas Latin Chamber of important people just to make me brag about himself. Commission. I have enough head- Rolando Larraz Commerce because the board owed look like I am temporarily import- The only picture I have with a aches dealing with the city council a favor to Otto Merida, and perhaps ant as well. very important person is with May- PUBLISHER in Las Vegas. also with a little bit of a push from I don’t care if Peter Guzman or Oscar Goodman and I am very AND “You’re history, Rolando,” said another former chamber president, thinks he is an important person or proud of it, but he asked me to take EDITOR IN CHIEF the other stupid email writer — but Tony Sanchez, and he is powerful not; I don’t care if Peter Guzman the picture with him, not the other Rolando Larraz I am not history, dummy! I make as long as the other powerful people has pictures of himself taken with way around. history. Say hello to my little friend. need him to do what they need him Sheriff Lombardo to look import- But to answer those three tele- GENERAL MANAGER My name is Rolando Larraz, and Perly Viasmensky to do for them. ant; at one time or another I was phone-caller friends: I don’t care if The reason that today I have a friends with three sheriffs — Lamb, Peter Guzman is a “well connected” as always, I approved this column. MANAGING EDITOR criminal record is because I am not Moran and McCarthy, and I did not person; I am who I am. I drive alone * * * * * Maramis Choufani ashamed of anything I have done in have pictures with any of them be- (not right now, because I am ill); Rolando Larraz is Editor in my life; I keep my record dirty, but cause I don’t like my picture taken. I live alone and everyone knows Chief of the Las Vegas Tribune. PRODUCTION my nose clean. And if I do not seal I owned two other newspapers where to find me. 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Economy, rebuilding the Military, President Trump on Tuesday His use of the word “rigged,” and so much more, and not on the intensified his attacks on Robert which he frequently deployed Rigged Russia Witch Hunt that Mueller, predicting the special during the campaign, is an effort should be investigating Clinton/ counsel’s team will be “MED- to convince his supporters that the Russia/FBI/Justice/Obama/Comey/ DLING” in the fall midterm elec- result of the Russia investigation Lynch etc.,” he tweeted. tions in order to hurt Republican will be tainted by bias. There is no indication, however, candidates. “Why aren’t the 13 Angry and Trump plans to abandon his aggres- Trump’s Twitter outburst, in heavily conflicted Democrats in- sive public-relations war against which he labeled Mueller’s inves- vestigating the totally Crooked Mueller. tigators as “13 Angry Democrats,” Campaign of totally Crooked Hil- By turning the investigation into is his latest attempt to undercut the lary Clinton,” Trump asked in another partisan fight, he has eroded credibility of the Russia investi- another tweet early Tuesday. “It’s Republican support for the special gation by arguing it is politically a Rigged Witch Hunt, that’s why! counsel. motivated. Ask them if they enjoyed her after- A CNN poll taken earlier this “The 13 Angry Democrats (plus election celebration!” month found a slight decrease in people who worked 8 years for the Democrats!” The man who appointed him, Just minutes later, Trump wrote support for the Mueller probe amid Obama) working on the rigged Mueller, a Republican, has Deputy Attorney General Rod that he should focus his attention all Americans, falling to 44 percent Russia Witch Hunt, will be MED- indicted four former Trump aides Rosenstein, is also a Republican more heavily on key policy issues from 48 percent in March. But Re- DLING with the mid-term elec- thus far in the wide-ranging probe who was nominated to the Justice instead of the Russia investigation, publicans now give Mueller just a tions, especially now that Repub- into ties between the president’s Department by Trump himself. something many of his associates 17 percent approval rating, down licans (stay tough!) are taking the campaign and Russia’s efforts to As the investigation has en- have pushed him to do. from 29 percent. lead in Polls,” the president wrote. influence the 2016 presidential croached on the president’s inner “Sorry, I’ve got to start focusing Six in ten Republicans said “There was no Collusion, except by election. circle, Trump has increasingly my energy on North Korea Nuclear, (See Mueller, Page 6) Korea Summit (Continued from Page 1) Central Committee of North Korea’s ruling Klingner, a former CIA division chief for Ko- party, is the highest-ranking North Korean rea who is now at the conservative Heritage official to visit the United States since 2000. Foundation. “I think it’s going to happen. That year, Vice Marshal Jo Myong Rok met Whether they do it by the 12th or not, Trump with then-President Clinton amid a failed seems eager to have it back on track.” effort to broker a nuclear agreement. The historic summit with Kim appeared Frank Jannuzi, president of the Mansfield dead last week after Trump responded to a Foundation, described Kim Yong Chol’s visit series of escalating North Korean threats by as an “opportunity.” personally dictating a letter to Kim that said “That Jo Myong Rok–Clinton agreement the summit planned for June 12 in Singapore remains to this day the preferred North Korea “will not take place.” state of relations between the U.S. and North The cancellation had Korea-watchers Korea,” Jannuzi said at panel hosted by the questioning whether even back channel Stimson Center. “The Jo Myong Rok–Clinton negotiations would be possible at this point. joint statement lays out the totality of what By the next day, though, Trump was North Korea is trying to accomplish this saying the summit could still take place round. I hope that Kim Yong Chul’s visit as originally scheduled after North Korea the summit — to multiple threads. A U.S. team composed of a U.S. diplo- will lead to something comparable to the Jo responded to his letter with a “warm and “It’s clear everybody is trying to get this mat and representatives from the National Myong Rok joint statement.” productive” statement. summit done, but the question is still will Security Council and Pentagon is meeting Kim Yong Chol’s visit shows North Korea In a traditional administration, June 12 North Korea give up its nuclear weapons or with a North Korean delegation at the De- is committed to having the summit happen, would be too quick a turnaround for the not,” Kazianis said. militarized Zone (DMZ) separating North Kazianis said. But, he added, he worries the summit after last week’s developments, ex- Over the weekend, South Korean Pres- and South Korea. meetings are meant to get Trump to agree to perts said. Modern-day presidential summits ident Moon Jae-in had a hastily arranged Meanwhile, another U.S. team that in- come without a firm denuclearization com- have the results agreed to before the leaders summit with Kim — their second — to try to cludes White House deputy chief of staff mitment, rather than North Korea agreeing sit down. salvage U.S.–North Korea diplomacy. Moon Joe Hagin is in Singapore coordinating the to the United States’s definition of denucle- A senior White House official, too, told left that meeting saying Kim was determined logistics of the summit. arization. reporters at a White House-arranged briefing to meet with Trump and discuss “complete Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is sched- “The next few days are going to be chaos,” last week that it would be difficult to hold the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” uled to meet with North Korea’s top nuclear he said. “I’m worried North Korea is trying summit on June 12. Trump over the weekend Trump also agreed to meet June 7 with weapons negotiator, Kim Yong Chol, in New denied that official’s existence. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose York later in the week. to weasel their way out of denuclearization Harry Kazianis, director of defense stud- country has worried about its interests being State Department spokeswoman Heather or just push it way out in the future.” ies at the Center for the National Interest, neglected in a U.S.-North Korea deal. Nauert said Tuesday that June 12 in Singa- Klingner similarly said it was unclear suggested Trump’s aides will try to talk him On Tuesday, White House press secretary pore “is what we’re planning for, but we’ll whether the three meetings in New York, out of meeting with Kim before the summit Sarah Huckabee Sanders said North Korea see what happens.” Singapore and the DMZ can result in an agenda is set. had been engaging with the United States “The primary conversation is going to agreement on denuclearization or if they “His staff would be jumping up and down on the possible summit, which her statement be as we lead up to this meeting that we’re are simply meant to discuss logistics for the screaming not to do it, knowing these people, described as “expected,” but did not specify planning for June the 12th,” she said at a summit. knowing these people all too well,” he said. a date. department press briefing. He was pessimistic about whether the But Trump has flouted experts before, “Since the President’s May 24th letter It’s unclear how the New York, Singapore former could be achieved. including by agreeing to the summit in the to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the and DMZ meetings will differ from each “There’s a long, long, long list of North first place. North Koreans have been engaging,” Sand- other. Nauert said she would not get into the Korean statements of them never abandoning Since the cancellation, diplomacy has ers said in the statement. “The United States “nitty-gritty” of what each will focus on, but their treasured sword of nuclear weapons,” he gone from zero interaction — part of the rea- continues to actively prepare for President said each team is discussing different pieces said. “It seems hard to believe they’re willing son Trump canceled was because Pyongyang Trump’s expected summit with leader Kim of the issue based on its expertise. to abandon something they’ve been working stopped responding to U.S. attempts to plan in Singapore.” Kim Yong Chol, the vice chairman of the on for 50 years.” Energy Choice (Continued from Page 1) visions to reduce customer costs, cumbent utility. Other states have if voters approve the amendment, to rise $24.91 a month in Southern The proponents say it would be protect against service disconnec- chosen to prohibit the utility from his company is ready to divest all Nevada and $6.52 Northern Nevada unfair and hinder real competition tions and unfair practices, and pro- generating and selling power to generation assets and all purchase for residential customers. intended to lower overall power hibit the granting of monopolies for consumers,” the ECI website offers. power agreements. He said the But a report by the Garrett bills if the existing utilities are power generation, but could leave “In both cases, the utility retains company has no interest in being Group presented to the Governor’s allowed to continue to generate in place regulation of transmission ownership of the transmission and a provider of last resort and will Committee on Energy Choice power at the facilities they own and or distribution systems. distribution grid and responsibility most likely transform into a wires recently on behalf of the initiative maintain existing contracts with On their website the backers of for maintaining the system and bill- only company. backers said such a sell off should outside suppliers. the initiative say it would be up ing customers. Energy choice states NV Energy has suggested di- be profitable, and, when coupled While that argument is being to lawmakers to decide if current simply give consumers the right to vestiture could result in so-called with the recent tax law changes, made, it is not necessarily man- utilities would have to divest their choose a new supplier, aggregate a stranded cost of as much as $7 should cause power bills to drop datory. The initiative itself simply generation facilities. community to purchase electricity, billion that would have to be paid by $11.16 a month. requires the Legislature to pass a “In some energy choice states, or generate their own power.” by existing customers. If rural power cooperatives have law providing an open, competitive energy consumers do not have But Paul Caudill, CEO of NV The Public Utilities Commission to divest their contracts for cheap retail electric energy market by July to choose a new supplier. They Energy, has told the Governor’s of Nevada estimates those stranded hydroelectric power, Luttell says 1, 2023. The law must include pro- can choose to remain with the in- Committee on Energy Choice that, costs could cause electricity rates bills will necessarily soar.

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Wegner refuses all money from Lobbyists, PACs and Special Interest Groups. Paid for Wegner4Congress Page 4 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / May 30-June 5, 2018 GOP leaders scramble to contain immigration rebellion By Mike Lillis confident Ryan can bridge the di- The Hill vide and keep the more liberal bills Republican leaders are facing off the floor. long odds as they scramble to “They want to continue having thwart an internal rebellion over Republicans lead on that issue immigration just months before [and] the president wants to lead November’s midterm elections. on that issue,” said GOP Rep. Tim The leaders are attempting to Walberg, who has dozens of farms broker a deal that satisfies com- in his southern Michigan district. peting factions of their restive “So I’m hoping that ultimately our conference and defuses a push by caucus will come together and put mutinous centrists threatening to an immigration bill across the line.” force action to protect undocu- Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.), mented immigrants in a series of the sponsor of the discharge peti- head-to-head floor votes that would tion, said “a major discussion area” highlight deep GOP divisions over remains the question of citizenship. an issue that has long been radio- The centrist DACA supporters are active within the party. fighting to ensure those immigrants The dispute has centered largely “have a bridge into the legal im- on what legal protections should migration system,” he said, while be extended to those living in the conservatives are adamant that they country illegally, and to whom they don’t receive a “special” path, akin should apply — thorny enough lacks the backing of a majority of an agreement, though, is closing If the discharge petition were to to jumping in line. But the nuances questions on their own. But the Republicans — a vow those con- quickly. Republicans will huddle succeed, it would prompt a “Queen surrounding that distinction have servatives haven’t forgotten almost in the Capitol on June 7 for a two- of the Hill” process featuring votes leaders’ effort was further compli- yet to be worked out. cated on Thursday, when President 30 months later. And the Speaker’s hour meeting designed to reach a on four separate proposals: the con- “You have to define ‘special,’” Trump warned that he’d veto any lame-duck status — he’s retiring consensus. If none emerges, then servative Goodlatte bill; the liberal Curbelo said, declining an attempt bill to shore up the Deferred Action at the end of the year — has only more Republicans are expected to Dream Act; a bipartisan proposal, to do so. for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) weakened his hand as he tries to endorse the discharge petition, forc- sponsored by Reps. Will Hurd Another wild card in the debate program if it fails to fund his exert control over his troops and ing votes on several immigration (R-Texas) and Pete Aguilar (D-Ca- is the question of how many Dem- favored wall at the U.S.-Mexico avoid an all-out immigration fight bills as early as June 25. lif.), combining DACA protections ocrats will endorse the discharge border. heading into elections where the is- “I believe the drop-dead date with new efforts to strengthen petition. While 190 Democrats “Unless it improves a wall sue is sure to play a prominent role. is June 7,” said Rep. Dennis Ross border security — but without have already signed on, three law- — and I mean a wall, a real wall “What we’re trying to do is (R-Fla.), a senior deputy whip, who explicit funding for Trump’s wall; makers representing districts on — and unless it improves very find where the consensus sweet has not endorsed the petition but and a yet-unknown bill of Ryan’s the Texas-Mexico border — Reps. strong border security, there’ll be spot is,” Ryan told reporters in the remains open to doing so. “We’re choosing. The proposal that wins no approvals from me, because I Capitol last week. “Immigration is giving them 10 days to see what the most votes, beyond 218, would Filemon Vela, Henry Cuellar and have to either approve it or not,” an issue that has a lot of passionate happens.” go to the Senate. Vicente González — have refused Trump said in an interview with positions.” Ryan, last year, had promised The agreement GOP leaders are to do so, citing fears that the process Fox News Channel. Hovering over the debate the Freedom Caucus a vote on seeking instead would feature votes would facilitate new border wall The president’s demand is just through the Memorial Day recess their preferred immigration bill, a on only two immigration proposals: construction at the expense of their the latest headache for Speaker is the centrists’ claim that their conservative proposal championed Goodlatte’s legislation, perhaps communities. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and his lead- discharge petition — a rarely used by Judiciary Committee Chairman with amendments, and a bill pro- Trump’s veto threat over wall ership team, who are in delicate procedural step to force votes to the Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and they’re viding permanent legal status — funding will only heighten those negotiations to appease both the floor against the wishes of majority frustrated with the Speaker’s inac- and an eventual path to citizenship concerns, while raising new doubts reform-minded centrists — whose party leaders — already has enough tion since then. In its current form, — for the so-called Dreamers. that there’s an agreement to be had discharge petition is inching closer Republican support to hit the 218 the proposal lacks the backing to Such a deal would preclude an that can win the support of most to the 218 signatures it needs to mark if Ryan fails to orchestrate a pass the House, but conservatives embarrassing “Queen of the Hill” House Republicans, Senate Dem- force a vote — and conservative deal quickly when Congress returns want an opportunity to show their scenario, which Republican leaders ocrats and the president. immigration hard-liners vowing to to Washington early next month. support nonetheless. in Congress and the White House Indeed, Senate Majority Leader oppose any proposal that would, “They are at the point where “There are some of us who, even contend lends too much power to Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has in their eyes, provide “amnesty” to they are confident I’ve got more with the Goodlatte bill, believe that the minority Democrats. warned that he won’t consider immigrants in the country illegally. than 218 votes,” said Rep. Jeff a slight amendment here or there “That would be like turning over any immigration bills that Trump Ryan, in reluctantly taking Denham (R-Calif.), one of the may get us to 218,” Rep. Mark the House to Nancy Pelosi,” Marc won’t sign. the Speaker’s gavel in 2015, had leading forces behind the discharge Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of Short, Trump’s legislative director, “We have to make law,” McCo- promised members of the far-right petition. “They want to get [a deal] the Freedom Caucus. said Friday, referring to the Demo- nnell told The Wall Street Journal Freedom Caucus that he wouldn’t done.” “We’re tired of talking about it. cratic leader. on Thursday, “not just spin our consider any immigration bill that The window for reaching such We think it’s time to vote,” he said. Leadership allies say they’re wheels.” Wilkie (Continued from Page 1) Shulkin’s orders,” Weidman said. to implement Trump’s vision. Caldwell said VA, and to suggest otherwise is completely Secretary Eric Shinseki his job. Congress If those loyalists can get behind Wilkie, Wilkie wouldn’t have been picked if he false and a red herring designed to distract approved the program after government Weidman said, he’ll succeed. wasn’t a team player. and avoid honest debate on the real issues sur- watchdogs found that VA officials were ma- In an op-ed published in The New York In a 2016 campaign rally in Virginia rounding veterans’ health care,” the agency nipulating data on how long veterans were Times just hours after he was removed, Beach, Trump decried the VA as corrupt and said in a statement last month. waiting for medical appointments, with some Shulkin blamed his ouster on forces within inefficient. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), chairman veterans dying while waiting for care. the administration that he said are pushing “Veterans should be guaranteed the right of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, The agency also just signed a 10-year, $10 hard for unfettered privatization. to choose their doctor and clinics, whether at signaled last week that his panel will take up billion contract to modernize its electronic “The advocates within the administration a VA facility or at a private medical center,” Wilkie’s nomination next month. health records system, the largest such job for privatizing VA health services ... saw me Trump said. “We must extend this right to In a potential boost for Wilkie’s chances, in history. The deal had been stalled since as an obstacle to privatization who had to be all veterans.” the committee’s ranking member Sen. Jon Shulkin was forced out in March. removed,” Shulkin wrote. Past secretaries “were absorbed and Tester (D-Mont.), said last week he thinks Trump has made reforming the VA a ma- Democrats and some veterans service captured by the bureaucracy, and became its Wilkie is a “strong choice” to lead the agency. jor political goal, and the ousting of Shulkin organizations believe the White House is biggest defenders,” Caldwell said. “I don’t “Right now I certainly don’t have anything stoked speculation that the White House being influenced by Charles and David Koch, think that’s the issue with Wilkie.” that would cause me not to support him. He’s wanted to drastically expand veterans’ access conservative billionaires who back the group But at least one group has raised red flags a solid guy,” Tester said. to private-sector health-care providers. Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), about Wilkie. Wilkie’s nomination follows the fall of The agency is also experiencing a major which is pushing to loosen current restrictions VoteVets, a liberal progressive advocacy Jackson, Trump’s personal physician, who exodus of senior staff that has reportedly on veterans receiving private-sector care. organization, said current Deputy Secretary faced questions about his experience and accelerated since the ouster of Shulkin, as Dan Caldwell, executive director of CVA, Tom Bowman should have been picked as ability to lead the second-largest bureaucracy longtime civil servants clash with Trump said he thinks Wilkie won’t face the same acting secretary when Shulkin was fired. The in the federal government. administration loyalists. problems that ultimately doomed Shulkin. fact that Trump deliberately passed him over Jackson was ultimately forced to withdraw Rick Weidman, executive director of pol- “Shulkin was talking out both sides of his to choose Wilkie speaks volumes about his his nomination after allegations — publicly icy and government affairs for the Vietnam mouth,” Caldwell said. “He told Fox News he views about the agency, they said. detailed by Tester — surfaced that he mis- Veterans of America, said he thinks Shulkin’s wanted change, but then he turned around and Democrats and veterans’ advocacy groups handled prescription drugs, drank on the job downfall came about because he didn’t have told [other groups] that they wouldn’t allow are concerned that the White House is taking and created a “hostile” work environment. the full backing of the Oval Office. the Trump administration to change things. calls for privatizing the VA system seriously, Unlike Jackson, Wilkie has gone through “The problem wasn’t that Shukin couldn’t He showed a lack of integrity.” but the VA has denied that there is any such an executive vetting process before when control his staff, it’s that the [White House] Caldwell said Wilkie is the best choice to push. he was nominated for Pentagon posts under was … backing up people who were defying lead the agency and someone who is willing “There is no effort underway to privatize Trump and former President George W. Bush. May 30-June 5, 2018 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 5 ‘Roseanne’ storm revives debate over Trump By Niall Stanage She also cited news reports ident have adamantly rejected those The Hill from earlier this year that the pres- kinds of charges. The president’s ABC abruptly canceled “Rose- ident had referred to El Salvador, former chief strategist Stephen anne” on Tuesday afternoon, just Haiti and some African nations as Bannon, for example, said in a BBC hours after the show’s creator and “shithole countries.” interview last week that Martin star, Roseanne Barr, tweeted a racist Julian Zelizer, a professor of Luther King Jr. would be proud of insult about Valerie Jarrett, a senior history and public affairs at Princ- Trump for his economic record. aide to former President Obama. eton University, also linked Barr’s Zelizer predicted that the But the firestorm surrounding rhetoric to Trump’s. near-universal outrage over Barr’s Barr does not appear likely to be “She was articulating some of comments about Jarrett would like- quelled anytime soon — and not the same kind of rhetoric that you ly not last, given the polarization of only because the show had been hear from the president and from contemporary U.S. society and the a huge hit, attracting more than some of his supporters, and there willingness of partisans to form into 18 million viewers for its March was a quick backlash,” he said. “It battle lines. premiere. tions. “If I was one of these cable of Barr. does show some of the poison that Right now, he said, “there is The show’s eponymous lead networks, I’d start the countdown O’Reilly said in a tweet that is out there in the public. The fact nothing so egregious that it receives character was a Trump supporter, clock — and the clock probably ABC had no choice but to cancel that someone would feel comfort- unanimous condemnation. I’m sure a rare thing on the pop culture won’t run very long.” the show, otherwise it would be able tweeting that shows where there’ll be some of her fans who landscape. Trump had previously reacted “insulting millions of Americans.” we’ve gone as a country.” will argue that she is being unfairly Now, liberals are asserting that with glee to the success of the Hannity called Barr’s tweet “out- Supporters and aides to the pres- treated. I’m sure that will emerge.” Barr’s comments — she compared rebooted version of Barr’s sitcom. rageous.” Jarrett, who is black, to an ape — “Look at her ratings!” Trump There was some degree of bi- are emblematic of the toxic currents said at a rally in Ohio soon after partisanship among lawmakers, as Clawback they say President Trump has the first episode aired in March. well. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), an (Continued from Page 2) loosed on American society. “Over 18 million people! And it icon of the civil rights movement, used as fake offsets in appropriations bills to allow for higher spending,” Conservatives have long resent- was about us!” praised the network for canceling FreedomWorks president Adam Brandon wrote of the package. “Therefore, ed charges of racism leveled at the Some figures who have mounted the show, tweeting “you did the although not intended to be spent for their original purpose, it is import- president or his supporters, insisting any kind of defense of Barr have right thing.” ant to take away the opportunity to repurpose the spending as offsets by the accusation is a politically moti- pointed to the show’s unusually Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) tweeted rescinding them.” While the rescissions would cut just a fraction of the vated smear. sympathetic view of Trump and “good riddance” and added that spending in the massive government funding bill, proponents argue its a The controversy is sure to in- his supporters, saying that this was ABC had “every right to fire her.” good start to a more fiscally conservative approach to governing. “Ap- tensify if Trump weighs in, either partly responsibly for its popularity. The political dividing line seems proving this initial $15.4 billion rescissions request in full — pulling through his own tweets or at a Herman Cain, a businessman to be less between pro- and an- back funds sitting in useless accounts that can only otherwise be used scheduled rally in Nashville, Tenn., who ran for the GOP presidential ti-Barr positions and more between to spend more in the future — is a task that conservatives in Congress on Tuesday night. nomination in 2012, told the Fox those who feel that Trump bears should wholeheartedly endorse,” Brandon continued. “It is one of few The White House said Tuesday Business Network on Tuesday that some responsibility for a coars- opportunities to exercise any semblance of fiscal discipline. It is only one afternoon that the furor surrounding “Roseanne apologized fervently. ening of the national dialogue and small step towards actually tackling Washington’s out-of-control spend- Barr is “not what the president’s They canceled her anyway.” those who see that as an unfair ing addiction, but it represents a chance to begin this fight.” Democrats looking at” and that he was instead He added: “They were look- charge. have voiced strong opposition to the White House proposal, with House focused on issues like trade and ing for a reason to cancel ‘Rose- “Trump has emboldened people Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) blasting its call to cut a contingency anne.’… Even though the show to talk about it publicly, [as if] it North Korea. fund for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) while leaving But once the president takes the was a ratings success, I believe that is OK to have these thoughts out defense discretionary spending intact. stage or begins firing off tweets, all forces within ABC didn’t like the loud,” said Karine Jean-Pierre, a McCarthy dismissed allegations it would negatively impact CHIP, bets will be off. fact that her conservative defense senior adviser and national spokes- arguing it targets untouchable funding and saves taxpayers money. Observers say the best political of certain things was so popular.” woman for the progressive group choice might be to steer clear of Cain also called the tweet an MoveOn. GOP Sens. Mike Lee (Utah), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Pat Toomey (Pa.), the issue, but Trump may not be “excuse” on the part of ABC to Jean-Pierre drew attention to Joni Ernst (Iowa), David Perdue (Ga.), John Kennedy (La.), Rand Paul able to resist. cancel the show. Trump’s deeply controversial com- (Ky.), Jeff Flake (Ariz.) and Ben Sasse (Neb.) introduced the rescissions “Of course it’d be foolish to get But conservative media figure- ments after neo-Nazis and oth- package in the upper chamber late last week, with supporters hoping it involved — but that won’t stop heads, including Sean Hannity and er far-right factions gathered in would be taken up in committee before the window for it to be discharged him,” predicted Tobe Berkovitz, a Bill O’Reilly — two commentators Charlottesville, Va., last summer, runs out. “Yes, a $15 billion spending reduction is a drop in the bucket Boston University professor who who often take delight in poking sparking violent clashes in which compared to a $15 trillion debt,” Lee said in a statement. “But we have specializes in political communica- liberal sensibilities — were critical one woman was killed. to start cutting spending somewhere.” Roseanne (Continued from Page 1) ABC choosing to ditch its rat- Barr, who in 2012 made her conspiracy theories, including in The move by ABC to end its in response to a tweet accusing Jar- ings winner could prove to be a own White House bid as the Peace March the “Pizzagate” theory, ratings juggernaut was applauded rett of helping to “hide” misdeeds huge blow for the network, which and Freedom Party’s candidate, which alleged the existence of a by the NAACP and at least one by the Obama administration. saw its audience numbers take flight has been a lightning rod for con- child sex-trafficking ring linked to lawmaker. Barr later apologized to Jar- with the politically charged revamp. troversy in the past. She garnered rogue elements in the government Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) rett and the public, deleting the The show — which originally headlines in 1990 when she made tied to Hillary Clinton and the thanked ABC, writing on Twitter tweet and saying she was “leaving aired from 1988 to 1997 — was an obscene gesture after delivering Democratic Party. that the network “did the right Twitter,” but that wasn’t enough such a ratings smash that ABC an ear-splitting rendition of the na- While the Jarrett remark was thing.” to prevent the cancellation of her had already announced it had been tional anthem — which then Pres- widely condemned, some knocked “There is not any room in our show, which had been cheered picked up for a second season in ident George H.W. Bush blasted ABC for the prompt decision to nix society for racism or bigotry,” the by President Trump over the title the fall. as “disgraceful” — at a nationally the series. civil rights icon said. character’s support of his admin- But the damage to the network’s televised baseball game. “I understand them using this as “Roseanne Barr’s comments istration. image from associating with Barr Earlier this year, photos resur- an excuse,” 2012 GOP presidential were appalling and reminiscent of The March “Roseanne” pre- could also have been substantial. faced of Barr dressed as Adolf Hit- candidate Herman Cain said of [a] horrific time in our history when miere reportedly averaged 18.1 ABC’s cancellation followed ler taking a batch of cookies shaped ABC in a Tuesday appearance on racism was not only acceptable but million viewers, the highest-rated public expressions of dismay from like children out of an oven. The Fox Business Network. promoted by Hollywood,” NAACP regularly scheduled scripted show “Roseanne” cast and crew members 2009 photos reportedly appeared in “Yes, it was racist,” Cain said President and CEO Derrick John- of the last few seasons. over the Jarrett tweet. a satirical Jewish magazine. in an interview with Trish Regan. son said in a statement. It made headlines for its lead Wanda Sykes, who had served Barr defended the images in an “Yes, it was distasteful. And she Barr herself had preached accep- character’s defense of Trump, who as a consulting producer on the interview, saying of her critics, “I vehemently apologized.” tance of differing political views in publicly cheered the show’s “un- sitcom, announced she wouldn’t don’t give a f—- what people think. “I believe that forces within an interview earlier this year. believable” ratings and personally be returning. I care what people do. I don’t care ABC didn’t like the fact that her “The idea that people can agree called Barr to congratulate her. Sara Gilbert, who starred as one what they think.” conservative defense of certain to disagree is kind of missing from “Look at Roseanne. Look at of Barr’s daughters on the series The comedian also faced back- things was so popular and getting everything,” Barr told The Holly- her ratings,” Trump said during a and served as an executive produc- lash in recent months for tweeting such ratings,” Cain said. wood Reporter in March. March speech in Ohio focused on er, also distanced herself from the infrastructure. sitcom’s matriarch. “Over 18 million people “This is incredibly sad and [watched] — and it was about us!” difficult for all of us,” Gilbert Trump told the crowd. “The fake tweeted, before ABC announced news hasn’t quite figured it out … “Roseanne” wouldn’t be returning but they will.” for a second season. During the 2016 presidential Jarrett responded to the contro- campaign, Barr said that “we would versy on Tuesday, saying at a town be so lucky if Trump won,” but she hall focused on racism that the laughed off the idea that he had any- fallout from Barr’s tweet should be thing to do with the show’s success. turned into “a teaching moment.” “It’s all me!” Barr told TMZ in “I’m fine,” Jarrett said in a April. preview clip released by MSNBC. The White House didn’t return “I’m worried about all the people ITK’s request for comment about out there who don’t have a circle ABC’s decision to pull the plug on of friends and followers who come “Roseanne.” right to their defense.” Page 6 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / May 30-June 5, 2018 Senate harassment bill runs into opposition from House By Jordain Carney in Hollywood facing accusations — Public Citizen. The Hill turned himself in Friday morning to Five groups, including Public House lawmakers are express- the police, who have charged him Citizen, sent a letter to Senate ing opposition to a Senate bill with rape, among other counts. Majority Leader Mitch McCon- that would change how Congress Klobuchar said in a joint inter- nell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader handles sexual harassment claims, view with Blunt on CNN published Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) saying arguing it would not do enough to on Thursday that she wanted to send the Senate bill “falls short of an support victims of harassment. a bill to President Trump’s desk acceptable compromise, and may Critics of the bill, approved “this summer.” have unintended negative conse- Thursday by the Senate in a voice The Senate legislation would quences.” vote, are backed by civil rights overhaul Congress’s harassment Critics of the bill are also voic- groups who say the legislation policy by streamlining the claims ing concern that the Senate legis- would limit the behavior for which process for victims and making lation’s defi nition of harassment lawmakers can actually be held members personally liable for ha- is too narrow and that it uses the accountable. rassment settlements. phrase “unwelcome harassment,” “I look forward to going to It would eliminate a 30-day which, they argue, could create an conference because it appears to counseling period, a 30-day medi- unintended loophole that makes it shift the power back to the institu- ation phase and a 30-day “cooling harder for victims of harassment to tion instead of the victims,” Rep. off” period required for victims of fi le a claim. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) said in a sexual harassment under the Con- House lawmakers and outside statement. gressional Accountability Act. groups are also raising concerns Speier, a leading voice in the For a senator to be found per- about the level of oversight the effort to impose more stringent sonally liable under the new leg- Senate bill gives to the Senate rules for sexual harassment on islation, a hearing offi cer, judge or Ethics Committee, underscoring lawmakers, separately told CNN’s Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) the Senate Ethics Committee would skepticism that lawmakers will be “New Day” that “both Republicans was passed by the Senate … along transparency and accountability, have to fi nd that a member person- unbiased when deciding whether or and Democrats on the House side with their proposed reforms.” and fosters a climate of respect and ally harassed someone. It doubles not to force their colleagues to pay are disappointed” in the Senate bill. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who dignity in the Congress,” Pelosi the amount of time, compared to the a settlement. So far, House leaders aren’t co-authored the Senate bill with said in a statement Friday. House bill, for a victim to decide if Under the Senate bill, the Ethics promising to take up the Senate bill Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Democrats on the House Ad- they want to fi le a lawsuit after they Committee, which conducts most as written. downplayed the chances that law- ministration Committee added approach the Offi ce of Congressio- of its work behind closed doors, AshLee Strong, a spokeswom- makers would need to formally in a tweet that “from what we’ve nal Compliance. would get to review and sign off an for House Speaker Paul Ryan go to conference to work out their reviewed so far, we continue to But lawmakers and outside on any settlement agreements that (R-Wis.), noted the chamber passed differences. believe the House version is a stron- groups criticize it for only holding involve a senator. its own bipartisan legislation in But Speier is calling for a con- ger bill — in terms of adjudication lawmakers personally liable for Members of the House Ethics February. ference, and she is getting support process and protection of victims harassment settlements. In the Committee took a jab at the Senate “We are currently reviewing the for that idea from House Minority and rights of all parties.” House legislation, lawmakers were bill, noting that the House-passed Senate bill, and discussing next Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). The looming fi ght over how to personally liable for settlements legislation “does not condition the steps,” she said. “Given the substantive differ- reconcile the two chambers’ pro- stemming from harassment or dis- imposition of personal liability House Administration Com- ences between the two bills, the posals could hamper lawmakers’ crimination. upon the outcome of any such in- mittee Chairman Gregg Harper House and the Senate must now go ability to get a speedy resolution on “The Senate’s proposal does vestigations.” (R-Miss.) added that the committee to conference to produce a strong, an issue that has plagued Congress not provide the strong mechanism “We believe that any proposal … is “currently reviewing the bill that fi nal version that provides greater amid high-profi le harassment scan- of transparency and accountability should include provisions to ensure dals both on and off Capitol Hill. that taxpayers deserve — for exam- that Members remain personally Mueller Sexual misconduct has forced ple, by ensuring that no taxpayer liable for their own conduct with (Continued from Page 3) to Democratic candidates, but not seven lawmakers to either resign or money is used to pay settlements respect to discrimination and retali- Mueller is not conducting a fair 13 as Trump has claimed. Justice retire, and Harvey Weinstein — for- for discrimination or harassment,” ation,” Reps. Susan Brooks (R-Ind.) investigation, according to a Quin- Department policy says political merly a major donor for Democrats said Remington Gregg, counsel for and Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) added in a nipiac University survey released affiliation cannot be taken into and one of several high-profi le men civil justice and consumer rights at joint statement. in April. That is an increase from account in hiring decisions. March, when under half said the Trump also has increasingly same. focused on what he calls “spygate,” That shift in attitudes could an accusation that the Obama ad- help Trump if Mueller’s fi ndings ministration placed a spy within are ever referred to Congress for his campaign. possible impeachment proceedings. The activity in question is a con- It is the product of a change in fi dential source who informed the legal strategies for Trump, who has FBI about contact with three Trump become more willing to directly aides who were under scrutiny in attack Mueller than he was under 2016 for possible connections to his previous team of attorneys. Russia. The use of such informants The president’s new lawyer, are routine in federal counterintel- former New York City Mayor Rudy ligence investigations. Giuliani (R), has joined him in tak- But Trump on Tuesday doubled ing on Mueller head-on in the press. down on his claim the activity was Giuliani said during a CNN in- illegal, citing conservative opinion terview on Sunday that the special writer Mollie Hemingway’s claim counsel’s probe is ”illegitimate” that the FBI “was secretly gath- and acknowledged the Trump legal ering information on the Trump team’s strategy is to move public Campaign ...people call that Spy- opinion in the event of impeach- ing ...this is unprecedented and ment. scandalous.” “They’re giving us the material The president’s comments have to do it,” Giuliani said of Mueller’s helped produce results, from his team. “Of course, we have to do standpoint. The Justice Department it in defending the president. 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The DCCC Outside money is flooding into a launched a joint $400,000 TV ad trio of key California House prima- buy with his campaign. ries, as Democrats try to avoid be- The DCCC’s preference puts the ing shut out of the general election. national committee at odds with The total outside spending in the California Democratic Party, those June 5 primary races had whose delegates voted to endorse eclipsed more than $8 million as stem cell researcher Hans Keir- of Friday, according to an analysis stead at the February convention. of Federal Election Commission Keirstead is getting a boost from filings by The Hill. The high-dollar 314 Action, a group that’s aiming spending is in the three GOP-held to elect more scientists for public seats represented by Rep. Dana office. The group spent $103,500 Rohrabacher and retiring Reps. on direct mail. Darrell Issa and Ed Royce, all of California’s 49th District: which are viewed as potential pick- $3.3 million in total up opportunities for Democrats. outside spending California’s “jungle” primary The open-seat fight to replace system pits all candidates, regard- Issa is the one race where it’s less of party, against one another California GOP-held seats represented by incumbent Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, retiring possible that either Democrats or in a single primary, with the top Republicans could get shut out. two vote-getters moving on to the Rep. Darrell Issa, and retiring Rep. Ed Royce under fire with outside money. On the Democratic side, the general election. Democrats fear al support to designated candidates. California’s 48th District: according to multiple news outlets. race remains wide open between that crowded Democratic fields Still, Democrats were treading $3.2 million in total But Baugh is getting some rein- four candidates: Marine Corps will split their party’s vote in some carefully in a primary where ten- outside spending forcements of his own. American veteran Doug Applegate, the 2016 races, allowing Republicans to take sions flared up between Cisneros Rohrabacher might be the in- Future Fund is spending $637,000 Democratic nominee; Mike Levin, both election slots. and health insurance executive cumbent, but he isn’t Democrats’ to lift him up as he increasingly an environmental attorney; Sara Now outside groups are spend- Andy Thorburn. After weeks of biggest target. appears as a viable alternative to Jacobs, a former nonprofit CEO; ing heavily in the races in an at- back-and-forth attacks, the Cali- Democrats are more worried Rohrabacher. and Paul Kerr, a real estate investor tempt to avert Democratic shutouts. fornia Democratic Party and the about Republican Scott Baugh, a Meanwhile, some Republicans and veteran. California’s 39th District: DCCC brokered an agreement that former Orange County GOP chair- have a target on Rohrabacher’s Many believe Jacobs, a first- $2 million in total both candidates would cease nega- man and past Rohrabacher ally, back. time candidate, has gained mo- outside spending tive campaigning in the final weeks who is within striking distance of The New OC Future PAC has mentum, especially with help from The Democratic Congressional before the primary. clinching the second spot for the poured in nearly $182,000 to op- EMILY’s List, which aims to elect Campaign Committee (DCCC) is Following the peace deal, the November ballot. pose Rohrabacher. While the group women who support abortion rights easily the biggest spender in the DCCC put $285,000 into an ad buy Democratic groups have poured has been mostly focused on knock- to public office. The group’s super primary for the seat now held by supporting Cisneros. in about $1.2 million to try to sup- ing down Rohrabacher, it’s spent PAC, Women Vote, has spent a Royce. Overall, Democrats have put a press Baugh. The DCCC is again five figures opposing businessman whopping $1.6 million on TV ads At first, the DCCC only focused half-million dollars into boosting the biggest spender, with additional Harley Rouda, one of the top Dem- and mailers. on targeting Republicans — Shawn Cisneros — a figure that includes funds from House Majority PAC, ocrats. Levin, who almost won the Cal- Nelson, a member of the Orange the DCCC buy, as well as six-fig- Priorities USA, Environmental De- Rohrabacher is getting a modest ifornia Democratic Party’s endorse- County Board of Supervisors, and ure spending from two veterans fense Action Fund and Democratic boost from a GOP group, Atlas ment, is getting a boost from top former state Sen. 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The Hill The U.S. auto industry has been President Trump and congres- cranking in recent years, selling sional Republicans are barreling more than 17 million cars in 2017, toward a showdown over auto tar- a slightly slower pace than the iffs, just the latest conflict between prior year. the president and his party on trade. Many foreign automakers have Trump has asked Commerce plants in the United States, includ- Secretary Wilbur Ross to investi- ing BMW, Volkswagen and Toyota, gate whether hefty tariffs, possibly almost all of them in states Trump as high as 25 percent, can be levied won in 2016. against auto imports for national Others, such as Volvo and Maz- security reasons. da, are either building plants or The mere suggestion of the working with existing car makers huge tariffs sparked an immediate to make their cars here, Lusk said. backlash on Capitol Hill, as well The U.S. imported $192 billion as GOP-friendly business groups in new passenger vehicles in 2017, and key trading partners already according to Chad Bown, a senior unnerved by Trump on trade. fellow at the Peterson Institute for GOP lawmakers warn the tariffs International Economics. could roil the economy months be- Mexico and Canada, members fore a midterm election where they of NAFTA, combine for nearly are fighting to maintain control of 50 percent of all auto imports into Congress. to a Volkswagen plant. security and economic concerns services exports to their markets,” the United States. Japan represents “I hope we can avoid getting into Tariffs could shake up the state’s overlap when it comes to trade. the group said. 21 percent, South Korea 8 percent any kind of tariff situation,” Senate Senate race, which Republicans “National security is broadly Cody Lusk, president and CEO and 2 percent come from the rest Majority Leader Mitch McConnell view as key to determining which defined to include the economy, of the American International Au- of the world. (R-Ky.) told Fox News. “I think all party controls the chamber next to include the impact on employ- tomobile Dealers Association, said Word of the possible tariffs sent of us are hoping that all of this back year. Corker is retiring and Rep. ment, to include a very big variety while the president has made no global trading partners scrambling and forth discussion about trade Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and of things,” Ross said on CNBC’s secret of his disdain for imports, the to understand why the adminis- doesn’t end up leading into the former Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) are “Squawk Box.” decision to launch an investigation tration was pursuing yet another implementation of tariffs or some locked in a closely watched battle “Economic security is military came as a surprise. possible batch of tariffs. larger trade war.” heading into November. security. And without economic “No one on the autos side is Canadian Prime Minister Justin Some senators used a closed- The prospect of auto tariffs security, you can’t have military clamoring for this. It’s a solution in Trudeau on Thursday slammed door lunch this week with Vice comes as Republicans are already security,” he added. search of a problem and a new tax Trump, telling Reuters he is “try- President Pence to complain about on edge over a reported deal be- The Trump administration is on American consumers,” he said. ing to figure out where a possible the saber-rattling. tween Trump and Beijing to save using tariffs as a primary weapon A possible 25 percent tariff is national security connection is.” “A handful spoke but I would Chinese telecommunications giant to combat what it calls unfair trade “not insignificant” and would hit The United Kingdom, another say there was more than a handful ZTE and less-than-productive talks treatment on U.S. products around every vehicle sold, including trucks close U.S. ally, said it does not ac- interested in the topic and … shar- aimed at renegotiating the North the globe. and autos along with auto parts, cept that its industry poses a threat ing with the vice president, since he American Free Trade Agreement But the move risks alienating Lusk said. to U.S. national security. was there, some of those concerns,” (NAFTA). They also come on the key business groups long consid- Trump has said he wants to “International car makers sup- said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). heels of Trump’s decision to impose ered influential allies for a Repub- boost auto production within the port huge numbers of high-skilled The administration would be steep tariffs on steel and alumi- lican administration. United States and believes U.S. jobs in the U.K., the U.S. and else- conducting a Section 232 investiga- num imports for national security Thomas Donohue, the president automakers aren’t getting fair tariff where,” a U.K. spokesperson said tion to impose tariffs on autos. The reasons using the same Section of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, treatment in regions such as the in a email to The Hill. Section 232 law, which is rarely 232 law. said in a statement that the auto European Union. “We will follow this new in- used, allows tariffs to be placed “I didn’t think aluminum and tariffs aren’t “about national secu- During a May 11 roundtable vestigation very closely. We will, on imports in the name of national steel met the test,” said Sen. Roy rity” but the administration trying with auto CEOs, he said “we’re as ever, be firm in standing up for security, but many think such con- Blunt (R-Mo.), a member of the to use trade penalties as leverage in working on how to build more cars the interests of U.K. industry — as cerns do not apply to imported cars. GOP’s Senate leadership. “I cer- separate, larger negotiations, such in the United States.” we continue to do, together with There are “a number of members tainly don’t think automobiles as NAFTA. “We’re importing a lot of cars, EU partners, on the U.S. steel and who are concerned about using meet the test. I just don’t think it’s The proposal, if carried out, and we want a lot of those cars aluminium tariffs.” national security as a cover for es- a national security issue.” “would deal a staggering blow sentially economic protectionism,” Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), a vocal to the very industry it purports to Outside Money Cornyn said. GOP critic of the president who is protect and would threaten to ignite (Continued from Page 7) Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) retiring after 2018, said the admin- a global trade war,” he said. “Sec- the 49th District involves a few top Republican candidates. raised the issue with Secretary of istration is using “national security tion 232 authorities should not be State Assemblyman Rocky Chávez has endured the brunt of Democrats’ State Mike Pompeo during an un- … to enact protectionist policies.” abused in this way.” spending. The DCCC, House Majority PAC and Priorities have spent a related hearing, saying the admin- “When the steel and aluminum Business Roundtable, a group of combined total of $1.3 million opposing Chávez. istration is running its trade policy tariffs proceeded, many of us the nation’s top CEOs, said tariffs By comparison, Chávez is getting a small lift from GOP super PAC “too transactionally.” He called the warned that other international part- on auto imports “doubles down Spirit of Democracy America, which has spent about $29,000 backing him. floated auto tariffs “absolutely an ners would react similarly and use on a bad precedent for U.S. trade While Chávez has led some polls, some strategists in California also abuse” of the president’s authority. national security concerns to mask policy.” view Republican Diane Harkey, a member of the State Board of Equal- “To me [it] feels like it has more protectionism. Little did we know “It undermines our nation’s ization backed by Issa, as another top contender. American Future Fund to do with domestic politics, or that it would be the U.S. who went credibility in the global commu- is backing Harkey through $214,000 in direct mail. some other issue, and I hope that back to the same ill-advised well so nity, weakens the international A third viable Republican candidate is San Diego County Board of will be abandoned quickly. I think quickly,” Flake said in a statement. trading system and emboldens Supervisors Chairwoman Kristin Gaspar. She’s gotten some national it’s dangerous and destabilizing,” The Trump administration is de- other countries to use ‘national attention from her meeting with President Trump about California’s said Corker, whose state is home fending the move, arguing national security’ to limit U.S. goods and “sanctuary state” laws. But there’s been no outside spending backing her.

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The (Mont.) and Joe Donnelly (Ind.) group spent $100,000 on TV ads in co-authored the bipartisan legisla- Montana featuring bankers praising tion, signed by Trump on Thursday, Tester for his work on loosening that eases the regulatory oversight bank rules. imposed on banks and credit unions “The release of these positive by the Dodd-Frank Act. television ads represents another The senators say their bill is a step in ABA’s advocacy for our prime example of their ability to members,” said ABA press secre- work across party lines and solve tary Ian McKendry. “We will be problems, a message they are ea- supporting candidates in both par- ger to bring back to voters in their ties who have advocated for poli- home states. (Left to right) Democratic Senators Jon Tester (Mont.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) and Joe Donnelly (Ind.) cies that will help banks better serve their customers and communities.” “One-size-fits-all rules from Trump made slashing Obama The GOP’s narrow Senate ma- in the midterm elections. While But other campaign veterans Washington have been strangling regulations a pillar of his 2016 jority meant Republicans needed Heitkamp has avoided Trump’s doubt that the senators’ support for Montana’s Main Street economy campaign, and he pledged to “dis- Democratic help to overcome a wrath so far, the president has held the law will be a difference-maker and threatening our rural way of mantle” Dodd-Frank shortly after fi libuster from liberal colleagues, rallies in Tester and Donnelly’s in November. life,” Tester said after the House his election. He hailed the new law giving moderates leverage in the states in support of their Republican Stuart Roy, a GOP strategist passed the bill on Tuesday, sending as delivering on that promise. talks. opponents. and former aide to Senate Majority it to Trump. “This is truly a great day for The resulting bill, released in “This election has nothing to Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), “When the extremes on both Americans, and a great day for November, keeps most of Dodd- do with this,” Tester said during said “endangered Democrats will sides of the aisle tried to derail workers and small businesses Frank intact. But the compromise a March press conference on the fi nd this vote as helpful as a para- our efforts, we bucked partisan across the nation,” Trump said at gave banks with up to $250 billion bill. “This has everything to do chute that opens after the second politics and instead found common the Thursday signing. in assets major regulatory relief, with access to capital and making ground,” he said. bounce.” Heitkamp, Tester and Donnelly enraging liberals such as Sen. sure rural America remains strong “Voters barely remember big Yet whether the law will turn were key forces behind the success- Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who moving forward. If this bill didn’t legislation,” Roy said, calling the into electoral gold remains to be ful loosening of the Dodd-Frank warned of the potential for another do that, I wouldn’t support it.” bill “not even a fraction” of the im- seen. rules. The trio, along with Sen. fi nancial crisis. While praise from Trump is tox- portance of the main issues driving The banking industry remains Mark Warner (Va.), anchored the The Democratic authors of the ic for Democrats in liberal strong- voters to the polls. deeply unpopular, and liberal activ- Democratic side of the negotiations. bill conceded that it went further holds, it could provide a boost to Roy also said Democrats could ists have assailed the new law as a The moderate Democrats were than they would have preferred in moderates from states where Trump risk suppressing their base by tout- giveaway to the fi nancial industry. concerned with Dodd-Frank’s rolling back regulations, but said is popular. ing efforts to scrap regulations. “There’s nobody that is going impact on community banks and the benefi t for community banks Trump and his team nodded to A February poll commissioned to be motivated to support some- credit unions, arguing that fi nancial and credit unions would outweigh the potential boost the bill could by Americans for Financial Re- one because they’re proving their institutions that pose no risk to the the costs. give the Democratic incumbents. form, a nonprofi t supporting tough bipartisanship by giving banks broader economy are suffering Heitkamp, Tester and Donnelly The president praised “great Dem- bank laws, found that only 17 what they want,” said a former under regulatory requirements have also dismissed suggestions ocrats” behind the bill Tester, percent of voters support loosening Democratic strategist now leading that should only apply to industry that they pushed to loosen the bank- Donnelly and Heitkamp put on his regulations on the biggest firms a liberal nonprofi t. giants. ing rules to protect their right fl ank desk, but only named and invited impacted by the bipartisan bill. Heitkamp to the signing ceremony. The survey, conducted by “This law is an example of what left-leaning Public Policy Polling, Pentagon approves hundreds more we can achieve when we work to- also found that 59 percent of voters gether and break through gridlock,” support Dodd-Frank, and only 25 Donnelly said after the signing percent believe it went too far in troops to support border agents ceremony. regulating banks. By John Bowden Trump signed an executive memo- It remains to be seen whether The former Democratic strate- The Hill randum in April directing Mattis to scaling back rules on banks will gist said Democratic support for the The Pentagon has reportedly ap- support DHS in an effort to combat help the Democratic candidates Dodd-Frank bill is mainly useful as proved a request from the Depart- a “drastic surge of illegal activity on win Republican votes, but polling a way to keep fi nancial sector super ment of Homeland Security (DHS) the southern border.” indicates it could work. PACs and bank lobbyists from sup- for more than 700 National Guard DHS offi cials did not immedi- Close to 70 percent of Republi- porting their Republican opponents. troops to supplement U.S. Customs ately respond to a request for com- cans polled by Gallup in November “It allows them to try to keep and Border Protection offi cers in ment from The Hill on Friday night. said there is too much federal reg- industry from donating to their several southwestern states. DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen ulation of businesses, compared to opponent,” the strategist said. “But Defense Department officials said at a press briefi ng earlier this 20 percent of Democrats. in terms of winning voters, it’s a approved the deployment of 736 along the border with Mexico. year that the threat posed by illegal A July study from Pew also losing issue for everybody.” National Guard service members to Defense Secretary James Mattis immigration at the southern border assist Border Patrol offi cials in four has approved the deployment of up poses a threat to the safety of Amer- states: California, New Mexico, to 4,000 National Guard troops to ican families and the “rule of law.” Arizona, and Texas, the Washington the border, which are not authorized “The threat is real,” Nielsen said. 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I-15/Sahara Ave. lane reduction, offramp closure May 29-31 Special to the Las Vegas Tribune tractor, with Atkins North America The Nevada Department of as lead designer. Transportation will close the south- Motorists should use caution bound Interstate 15 / Sahara Avenue while travelling through the work offramp in Las Vegas from 11 p.m., zone, heed construction signage, May 29, until 4 a.m., May 30, and and take alternate detour routes, if again from 10 p.m., May 30, until 6 possible. Check the Project Neon a.m., May 31. Additionally, south- website (NDOTProjectNeon.com) bound Interstate 15 will be down or Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to one travel lane between Oakey pages (@NDOTProjectNeon) for Boulevard and Sahara Avenue up to date information. 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A government big enoughE to give youditorials everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. — Thomas Jefferson Our Point of View The other side of the Campaign Story Early voting started last Saturday and soon we will see the results of the hard work of the campaign managers who have isolated their clients from the voters to make them look as if they have done a good job promoting their candidates. It is very telling about any campaign managers when they have to hide the fact that they are representing a can- didate in one race or another. It has come to our attention that some campaign manag- ers are telling their clients not to let the Las Vegas Tribune know that they are representing this or that candidate, giv- ing the impression that they are going to be discriminated against by the newspaper if that information gets out. Nothing could be further from the truth; if it was like that we would not have made strong recommendations for some of the candidates that we ourselves believe deserve our vote. (Remember, we have chosen to no longer make Primary candidates recommended By Thomas Mitchell Amendment that would ultimately endorsements.) Early voting began Saturday, May force Washington to live within its We can tell who the candidates have for their campaign 26 for Nevada’s party primaries, so I means instead of running up billions managers when they hesitate answering who their cam- take this opportunity to offer my two in deficits and trillions in debt. paign managers are, and it is sad to see how shameful they cents worth. As a senior member of the Senate look when they finally have to reveal the name of their Since none of the candidates for Veterans’ Affairs Committee he has campaign manager. major statewide offices on the Dem- worked to eliminate the VA disability ocratic slate would get our backing claims backlog. In fact we believe candidates are ashamed of most cam- come November, so we will address In the 2nd Congressional District paign managers because they realize that they are being only the GOP primary. — which includes northern Lyon taken by them; let’s just drop the word ‘campaign’ and go For governor the choice is easy county and all of Douglas, Carson straight for the more descriptive term, ‘manager.’ and obvious, Republican Attorney City, Storey, Washoe, Humboldt, In the old days the managers used to pick the ‘envelopes’ General Adam Laxalt has proven Pershing, Churchill, Lander, Eureka so the client would not have to be in contact with the do- himself a thorough conservative, and Elko counties — Republican fighting for states’ rights while attor- ThoMaS MiTchell incumbent Mark Amodei deserves nors and not feel obligated when one of them comes back ney general with principled litigation. He has promised to be returned to Washington, where he has faithfully to ask for a favor. to work to repeal the burdensome Commerce Tax stood up for Nevadans by working to keep taxes low There was none of that “Remember what we talked passed by lawmakers in 2015. and regulations less burdensome. about when I gave you the envelope” business then, which Laxalt says he will work to reduce state spending Amodei has fought the efforts of past adminis- may have been only a one hundred dollar bill, but now the to keep the tax burden bearable. trations to limit economic and recreational access to managers push the client to call donors for money so they For U.S. Senate, Republican incumbent Dean Hell- public lands. er has a proven track record. He helped write the tax In the 4th Congressional District — which includes can get their piece of the action. reform bill and has worked to undo the ObamaCare part of northern Clark County, southern part of Lyon Unless they are handling an incumbent or believe they debacle. He has for years pressed for legislation that County and all of White Pine, Nye, Mineral, Esmer- have a ‘sure bet horse’ in the race, the way they handle would deny members of Congress pay checks until alda, and Lincoln counties — former Republican Rep. their client, is, in our view, a very careless, sloppy, and do they pass a budget. Cresent Hardy deserves another chance to represent the we dare say it, bordering on unethical way of conducting Heller has also pushed for a Balanced Budget (See Mitchell, Page 14) business. Look at the race for justice court department; one where ON A PERSONAL NOTE three of the candidates with managers are not the most likely to be elected because they are not too successful in Something else to remember “picking” money from donors, which makes it very em- barrassing for the client, the candidate. on Memorial Day: Be prepared It is a very difficult position for the candidate because, By Maramis question and learn, hoping to get at when they walk into a law office (remember, the judicial We all know by now — if we a higher truth, so to speak. race is mainly among attorneys), the head of the office didn’t know before — that Memorial There were times, no doubt, when Day is about remembering the dead one or another of us in the group makes the candidate wait a little while, causing the can- — specifically the fallen servicemen wished he would not share quite so didate to suffer a bit, wondering if they are going to get a and -women who died in service to much of his accumulated knowledge donation or not. our country, in one way or another. regarding UFOs, extraterrestrial Others, whether giving donations or not, cry and com- This particular Memorial Day I life, and such, but then he always plain about how many people are running for this or that received the news that a long-time told us that it was what he learned office, making the candidate feel bad and making them friend of mine — who just also hap- in our study group that reinforced pens to be a veteran — has passed his belief in such things. While he feel as though they are begging for a donation, so the away. may have been extremely involved candidate will turn that job over to a campaign manager, I remember the day we actually in UFO groups, in addition to his who, in most cases, will end up taking all the money for met, all those years ago. It was at a MaraMiS choufani involvement with our study group, his or her services. Denny’s; we had arranged to meet for coffee, at my his whole dedication was to seeking out the truth, Being a judge in most cases is being in a position of request. He had contacted me because he knew of my wherever it would lead. prestige; most likely a good judge puts in more hours in a ongoing interest in and dedication to a certain study Since all of us in that group were of one mind as far group in which the subject matter covered history, as that was concerned, we were also open to hearing day than when they had their own law firm. science, philosophy and religion. his views and having him hear ours. That is one way It is very convenient for lawyers to have an executive We spent several hours discussing both the “me- a person can get to the truth — by seeking and sorting assistant, legal assistant, and court recorder, all paid for chanics” of the group, and the heart of the subject and evaluating what we learn (or discover), or to expe- by taxpayers, but he or she will still have to be careful to matter. He was anxious to join the group at the very rience truth. Either way, we must employ what we all whom he or she talks because it is important to avoid giv- next get-together — which he did. like to believe we have, and know how to use — that ing the wrong impression. A good and conscientious judge He was an eager learner. He questioned everything, is, an open mind. while at the same time sharing with the group various Lyle was working toward perfection in this life, as must be careful not to be late any day and to take only one things he had learned during his journey to get at the all of us who are truth-seekers eventually get around hour for lunch instead of those common ninety-minute or truth behind all he had ever been taught. He was often to doing, and one of the things he undertook in that longer lunches, and pay the campaign manager if he was obstinate in some of his beliefs, but he never failed to (See Maramis, Page 17) nice enough to allow spending on some of the fees. After seeing all this, we believe that candidates in judicial races especially would be better off handling Supreme Court justice to retire their campaigns without managers, who always serve as By the horn editorial team “One possibility is they are permissive position on social issues President Donald Trump might not granting cases because they such as gay marriage has drawn ire doorstops to keep the judicial candidate — as well as any soon get the chance to cement his don’t know who their ninth from the right, he has been a solid other candidates — away from the voters, and charging judicial legacy by appointing his member is going to be,” Ian conservative vote on other key great amounts of money for the privilege of doing nothing second Supreme Court justice as Samuel, a Climenko fellow and issues such as limiting the role of but making the life of the judge — or other candidate — early as this summer. lecturer on law at Harvard Law government. miserable. Talk is heating up that Justice School, told The Hill. “You He voted against Obamacare, for Maybe the judicial race should be brought outside the Anthony Kennedy, a conservative could imagine Kennedy telling example. judge that turns 82 in July, could the chief, ‘I’d like to keep this But his retirement could pave the legal community as far as attorneys not being allowed to retire as early as next month. between us, but I’d like to retire,’ way for Trump to appoint a much donate to a judicial campaign. If the judge is a good judge, “Kennedy is going to retire and the chief saying, ‘Let’s see more reliable and consistent conser- he is going to be elected — and even re-elected — so what around sometime early summer,” who Kennedy’s replacement is vative vote. is the need for a manager? Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, a Repub- before we grant all these cases.’” That prospect has leftists already We believe that it is time to start doing things a little lican, said earlier this year. “I think Indeed, if Kennedy — the losing their collective mind. more effectively and efficiently for everyone; no attorneys’ a new Supreme Court justice will get last of former President Ronald “How can we put this the right them motivated.” Reagan’s appointees still in the way? Please don’t go,” The New donations that make some judges uncomfortable by having Evidence suggests that prediction court — wants to replaced by York Times Editorial Board begged to ask for money, and avoiding the strong-arm tactics of a will be coming true. Court-watchers another conservative judge, re- last month. “If Mr. Trump gets the judge who asks an attorney to “approach” [the bench] and are trying to read the tea leaves, and tiring just before the midterms chance to fill your seat, it will be the then reminds the attorney that he has not seen his check many believe that the light load so with the Senate safely in GOP most conservative court in nearly a as yet. And that is a family court judge; can one imagine far for next term could be a sign the hands makes sense. century.” what a district court judge could say and do? justices are setting up for an uncer- Kennedy is often the swing That’s a prospect that has tain autumn. vote on 5-4 decisions. While his (See Kennedy, Page 17) May 30-June 5, 2018 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 13

VEditors note:iew The views expressed are entirely those of the writersP and do not necessarilyoints reflect the opinions of the Las Vegas Tribune. Richard is Right: It’s the Primaries, Stupid! By Chuck Muth likely be worse for the conservative In his 2014 best-selling book movement in Nevada than Gov. “Takeover,” my friend and conser- Brian Sandoval — if that’s even vative icon Richard Viguerie has a possible. chapter titled, “It’s the Primaries, And here’s an inconvenient Stupid!” And he is so “right”! truth: Democrats in 2019 are once As Viguerie notes, the problem again going to control both houses for conservatives isn’t so much of the Legislature. Democrats and liberals as it is Without a conservative Repub- “progressive, Big Government lican governor willing to veto the Republicans.” And he is so “right.” stinking pile of far-left cow dung “Far from shrinking govern- bills the D’s are going to plop on ment, whenever they have been in his desk, we really and truly are power establishment Republicans going to end up being, as State have contributed to the growth of CHUCK MUTH Controller Ron Knecht once put it, government,” Viguerie wrote. Indeed. It’s the primaries, stu- “East California.” And he is so “right.” Just look at pid! Attorney General: what happened in Nevada in 2015. And with that in mind, here Craig Mueller After Republicans not only won are five Nevada state races and Craig is running against former control of the governor’s office, but the GOP candidates conservatives Assemblyman Wes Duncan. also control of both the state senate should support in the June 12, 2018 Now, Duncan’s not a bad guy. richard Viguerie and state assembly — controlling primary election… But he is the establishment’s guy. non-profit grassroots advocacy late to gather the required number all three bodies for the first time Governor: Adam Laxalt And voters should be extremely organization a few years ago in an of signatures to qualify. since the Depression — establish- Adam is cut from the same concerned with the fact that he effort to “out” our donors, Craig If elected, Craig has vowed to ment Republicans exploded the conservative Reaganite cloth as his reportedly raised some $190,000 successfully represented us all the ban “sanctuary cities” in Nevada, size and cost of state government famous grandfather, former Nevada in special interest campaign contri- way up to the Nevada Supreme evict the BLM from within our while passing the largest tax hike in senator and governor Paul Laxalt, butions for this race last year while Court. borders, and immediately issue an Nevada history to pay for it! known fondly as Ronald Reagan’s still a government employee work- And when the gaming and AG’s opinion blocking government “Until we conservatives… nom- “First Friend.” ing for the attorney general’s office! mining industries sued to block employees from serving in the Leg- inate conservative candidates who The campaign of his primary I’ve known Craig for over 20 the citizen initiative to repeal the islature and will sue any who try. will actually fight for and govern opponent, Dan Schwartz, is a years. He’s as solid a conservative Commerce Tax passed in 2015, So Mr. Mueller isn’t just a solid according to the conservative self-serving joke. Schwartz is no as they come. And he is totally un- Mueller successfully fought to constitutional conservative; he’s a principles the party stands for,” conservative, and his record proves afraid to take on the establishment allow it on the ballot. fighter. Wish we could clone him! Richard continued, “there will be it, no matter how many times he and powers-that-be. Unfortunately, the court system State Assembly: John Ellison, no coherent alternative to the Dem- calls himself a “conservative.” When former Secretary of State dragged its feet and the ruling giv- Dennis Hof and Jim Small ocrats’ Big Government worldview He’s a Big Government estab- Ross Miller — a partisan Democrat ing the initiative the “green light” The reason the 2015 Legisla- presented to the voters.” lishment Republican who would if there ever was one — sued my didn’t come down until it was too (See Muth, Page 15) The final straw that will break Mueller’s back Larry Klayman tells of his court victory forcing release of key documents By Larry Klayman to pull the proverbial wool over the D.C. federal bench, it made me Trump the cover to fire Mueller, Yesterday, on behalf of Freedom and lied to the court by claiming feel good to be able to compliment or at least order Attorney General Watch, I, as its general counsel, that they needed a year to review a jurist who is not from my ideolog- Jeff Sessions and his deputy Rod appeared in the court of the Hon- and produce what are likely to be ical community. The transcript of Rosenstein to do so. The result: orable Emmet Sullivan, to enforce these damning documents. They the hearing can be found at www. Mueller’s “witch hunt” will grind our Freedom of Information Act obviously, at the direction of their freedomwatchusa.org. to a screeching halt, and this “man (FOIA) request to force Special client Robert Mueller, in particular, And, as I predicted, Judge Sul- of integrity” will be relegated to Counsel Robert Mueller to come attempted to obstruct justice and livan responded in a nonpartisan the ash heap of legal history, which clean with documents that will not have any damning information fashion and ruled neutrally. This is is where his reputation rightly be- likely show that he has been ille- emerge until the special counsel extremely rare on the federal bench longs. Mueller and his conflicted gally and criminally leaking grand had already completed his heinous these days, no matter which pres- and rabidly leftist prosecutorial jury information to the media. mission: to take down the presiden- ident appointed the judge. There staff could also be subject to crim- The obvious intent of Mueller and cy by waging a legal coup d’etat! are so-called conservative federal inal prosecution, once the presi- his dishonest leftist prosecutors At the outset of Thursday’s judges who also bend the rule of dent also fires Sessions, who is a is to smear and destroy anyone hearing, I sincerely told the judge law and the Constitution to suit their total disgrace who simply occupies around President Trump — already that I considered him to be an hon- biases and prejudices. space at taxpayers’ expense at my many Trump associates have been Larry KLayMan est man, as well as nonpartisan, The court-ordered deadline of once proud alma mater, the U.S. charged — and submit impeach- Clinton, resulted in his very strong reminding him of my appearances Sept. 4, 2018, to cough up all of Department of Justice. ment reports, which will obviously ruling that Mueller and his office, before him in the famous Cheney Mueller’s and the other defendants’ Thus, the ramifications of Judge be forthcoming from what the as well as the Federal Bureau of In- Energy Task Force case when I communications with the media is Sullivan’s ruling are huge and more corrupt establishments of both po- vestigation, and the Department of was chairman and general counsel important. This will be around the than any other legal case to date litical parties, who want to see our Justice as a whole, had to produce of Judicial Watch. In this context I time Mueller will undoubtedly be has the real potential to end the president “dead and buried” and over 10,000 documents by Sept. 4, reminded him that I, a registered bringing more criminal charges. legal terrorist reign of Mueller and removed from office, laughably call 2018, a day after the end of the La- Republican and a conservative, He will also be in high gear writing his staff. “a man of integrity.” bor Day weekend. To the contrary, admired him, as I too am nonpar- his impeachment report to Con- And, what I appreciated as much The hearing before Judge Sul- the lawyers of the dishonest “Deep tisan. I think he appreciated this gress. Thus, the revelation of what from Thursday’s hearing was that I livan, interestingly a jurist who State” pro-Clinton and Obama and in fact, given all my criti- is likely to be evidence of illegal had finally found an honest federal had been appointed to the federal Federal Programs Branch of the cisms of many of his Clinton- and and criminal leaks of grand jury jurist who would enforce the rule bench by former President Bill department had tried at the hearing Obama-appointed colleagues on information will give President (See Klayman, Page 14) Trump has exposed Democratic hypocrisy on prison reform By Charlie Kirk speak to sentencing guidelines and clear and the numbers are stag- The Hill opinion contributor requirements. gering. Right now, more than two With so much media-manu- For a group that is supposedly million Americans are in prison, factured controversy surrounding so concerned with the unfairness of which nearly 95 percent will President Trump, it’s easy to lose of the American prison system, it’s eventually be released. This year sight of the fact that our president some stunning hypocrisy. But it’s alone, America will release almost possesses superpowers unlike any an example of Trump employing 700,000 prisoners and if patterns we have seen in his recent prede- his mind-control power to make hold, well over 50 percent will cessors. Democrats oppose something they commit another crime and go back Trump can get Democrats to previously supported. to prison. It is a sad truth that the oppose virtually anything, even The idea that serious people people statistically most likely to something they have supported would oppose something that is commit a crime are the people who for their entire careers, simply by a major step in the right direction already served time for committing coming out in favor of it. simply because it isn’t everything one. One example was on display they can imagine illustrates and From a math perspective, this is last week when the president defied exposes their true agenda; they a no-brainer. The bill authorizes a conventional wisdom and party don’t want to solve a problem for mere $50 million annually to create stereotypes by holding a Prison Re- union between CNN commentator help them avoid becoming repeat their constituents, they just want to the risk and assessment system and form Summit at the White House. Van Jones and Americans for Tax offenders, including drug treatment, have the problem to run on in the carry out anti-recidivism programs. The purpose was to find ways Reform president Grover Norquist. job training and mental health next election. On the other hand, the White House to reduce recidivism and to help Let me first add that I am loyal counseling.” It continues. The rapper Meek Council of Economic Advisors says ex-offenders become employees supporter of the president and his Sound controversial? It Mill grabs a microphone anywhere that the reforms can save taxpayers and taxpayers instead of simply agenda, a member of the “base” shouldn’t. It should sound like he goes and rails against the unfair- $1.47 billion to $5.27 billion. For “felons.” of the conservative movement and common sense, but it doesn’t in a ness of the criminal justice system. some further perspective, Congress In holding this conference and more akin to members of the House nation so divided that both sides are President Trump invited him to the appropriated $7.2 billion for the starting on the serious and much Freedom Caucus than House lead- in the business of manufacturing summit so he would have a chance federal prison system in FY 2018. needed path to reform, Trump ership. My flavor of conservatism argument. to contribute ideas and be part of The authorization for this program once again showed that he is not is that of Rep. Thomas Massie (R- Democrats were immediately the solution. Pressure from fellow would amount to 0.68 percent of beholden to conventional politi- Ky.) and Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), outraged by this blatant attempt rapper Jay-Z publicly shamed away that annual total. Considering the cal paradigms. He has attempted Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rand Paul on the part of the president to take Meek Mill from attending. You see, additional savings associated with to include in this process such (R-Ky.). As a strong conservative positive action on something for when Meek Mill gets a chance to sit reduced crime and recidivism, diverse groups as elected Republi- I see this bill as a tremendous which they have long been in favor. down and attend a meeting with the the bill will easily save taxpayer cans, elected Democrats, the Koch opportunity to advance the cause Rounding up the usual suspects, president of the United States, who dollars. brothers and even people from the of smaller government, individual Rep. Sheila Jackson (D-Texas) has the power to create change, he There are 183,881 inmates under entertainment world. liberty, and to cut spending. and Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), declines because it might hurt his Bureau of Prison custody held in The concept has been driven by As reported by CNBC, the bill Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and other record sales. Suddenly he is against federal prisons, with 54 percent un- Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared would “require the federal prison Democrats issued a statement urg- something he was for, before he der 40 years old. Of that population, Kushner who proposed a prison re- system to evaluate inmates after ing Democrats to oppose Trump was against it. 71 percent are serving sentences form bill, in addition to an unlikely sentencing and provide services to ideas because his plan does not yet The facts surrounding this are (See Kirk, Page 17) Page 14 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / May 30-June 5, 2018 No, You Do Not Have a Right to Your Opinion By José Azel do, that everyone’s views should “You are not entitled to your be considered as equal contenders opinion” is an incongruous opening for the truth, then it is clearly false. for an opinion page column, but I Truth is not relative; truth is not a hope to have your attention. matter of opinion. Something can- Our democratic and free speech not be true for one person and not convictions lead us to proclaim that for another. we have an uncontestable right to We tend to confuse our dem- our opinions. However, that expres- ocratic equal right to an opinion, sion embodies a logical fallacy in with the idea that all opinions are which an individual discredits any of equal value. They are not. Some opposition by claiming a right. solutions are better than others. The When we assert the existence of fact that someone believes some- by comedian Stephen Colbert, people agree with an edit, it be- a right, we excuse ourselves from thing does not make it true. A belief captures the flaws in the “everyone comes the new truth as consensual having to offer any justification cannot be its own justification. We is entitled to their opinion” idea. truth-building. for our opinion. We have a right should not make beliefs immune to Truthiness refers to the truth that Rather than parroting indiscrim- to it period. That is all; no further José Azel critical inquiry. Someone still has someone knows intuitively because inately that we are all entitled to discussion is necessary. And worse, of opinions of preference, taste, or to be wrong. it feels right. Truthiness disregards our opinions, perhaps we should, in if we have a right, it is irrelevant if opinions substantiated by technical The Nazis were not entitled to evidence, logic, intellectual exam- Colbert fashion, rework the phrase our assertions are true or false. expertise of some kind. We should their opinion that Jews were subhu- ination, or facts. Unfortunately, to: “everyone has a right to ignore Opinions have a high degree of not argue about your preference of man and needed to be exterminated. many of our claims to knowledge our opinions.” Maybe then, we will subjectivity and uncertainty and, vanilla over chocolate ice cream; It is our responsibility to seek to fall in the truthiness category. begin to take our philosophical as philosophers see it, we are not and given my ignorance of the sub- acquire true beliefs and reject false We can also become victims of responsibility seriously and begin entitled to opinions; we are only en- ject matter, I will not argue about beliefs, and to deny the lazy moral “Wikiality,” another Colbert term, offering more thoughtful opinions. titled to what we can argue for. We nuclear physics. I am referring relativism that all opinions are of where if enough people agree with José Azel left Cuba in 1961 as a are entitled to construct and defend mainly to sociopolitical opinions equal value. an opinion it becomes the truth. 13 year-old political exile in what an argument. To offer an opinion when we pretend to know what we Our opinions should be based on Wikiality, a blend of the words has been dubbed Operation Pedro imposes an enormous responsibility do not know. evidence or on good arguments that Wikipedia and reality, shapes truth Pan — the largest unaccompanied to question our thought process and If by, “everyone is entitled to seek truth. We are not morally ob- by consensus or cultural relativism. child refugee movement in the his- to be open to the possibility of being their own opinion” we mean only ligated to accept someone’s false- Expositions on the popular tory of the Western Hemisphere. wrong. Those elements are often that people can say whatever they hoods under the commandment that encyclopedic site Wikipedia are He is currently dedicated to the in- lacking in many opinions, including want, that is a factual and rather “it is true for them,” which flows designed to be accepted as true by depth analyses of Cuba’s economic, some offered in newspaper opinion boring statement, at least in a dem- from the “everyone is entitled to majority vote. Given that anyone social and political state, with a pages. ocratic milieu. However, if by that their opinion” precept. can edit Wikipedia, then anyone keen interest in post-Castro-Cuba To be clear, I am not speaking statement we mean, as we often The term “truthiness,” coined can edit the truth and, if enough strategies. ON THE HOLMES FRONT Nancy Pelosi busted defending MS-13 gang By Frank Holmes Lord God Almighty. Know About The Violent Animals House Minority Leader Nancy “The president of the United Of MS-13.” Pelosi this week reminded me of States…calling people animals is It uses the word “animal” 10 an old Army slogan: She lies more not a good thing,” Pelosi said. times in less than 500 words — and before 9 a.m. than most people do “You have to wonder, does he every word is true. all day. not believe in the spark of divinity, “MS-13 is a transnational gang Earlier this week, Pelosi had an the dignity and worth of every that has brought violence, fear, and unhinged meltdown after President person?” suffering to American communi- Donald Trump called members of Of all the people in this argu- ties,” it says. the domestic terrorist gang MS-13 ment, the leader of the Congressio- On Wednesday, Trump shoved “animals.” nal Democrats decided that Trump Pelosi’s comment in her face again The White House released a was the one who didn’t value when he met the parents of girls new fact sheet to show how evil human life! murdered by MS-13. And he re- these Unnaturalized Born Killers “We’re all God’s children,” peated that their killers “are not are: “MS-13, short for Mara Sal- Pelosi said. people. These are animals.” vatrucha, commits shocking acts We may all be God’s children, Trump’s statement doesn’t mean of violence to instill fear, including but would God want his children any sympathy from Pelosi. But for years Pelosi has dodged, he does not value life… it means machete attacks, executions, gang murdering other little kids? The lit- When a reporter asked her if “an ducked, and darted around the ques- he’s got his head on straight. He rape, human trafficking, and more.” tle girls that MS-13 raped, pimped, unborn baby, with a human heart tion of whether a baby in the womb values life so much that he’s willing MS-13’s rap sheet includes and killed deserve a little sympathy. and a human liver” is “a human — with a heartbeat and a kick as to defend it against people who actions lower than anything most The American families who being,” she said, “I do not intend to strong as a soccer goalie — is alive. would destroy us. animals would sink. But Pelosi drench themselves in tears mourn- respond to your questions.” “The point is,” she told another It’s hard to imagine anyone lashed out at the president — and ing at their loves ones’ tombstones This isn’t rocket science, lady, interviewer, is “that it shouldn’t guiltier than a member of MS-13, compared these murderers to the deserve respect, but they won’t get it’s biology. have an impact on the woman’s and there’s nothing more innocent right to choose.” than a baby. She called abortion “sacred On Tuesday, President Trump Mitchell ground” once. told the right-to-life group about So, unborn babies deserve to die, his respect for innocence, “When but MS-13 terrorists who mutilate we look into the eyes of a newborn people are little flickers of Jesus. child, there is no doubt we see the Got it. beauty of the human soul and the Trump got his revenge when he mystery of God’s great creation.” went before a Christian group to When we look into the eyes of take a political eye-for-an-eye. an MS-13 torturer, we see how “Nancy Pelosi came out in fa- corrupted that creation can become. vor of MS-13,” Trmp told a huge And when we look into the eyes crowd of right-to-life activists on of Pelosi, we see how dishonest, Tuesday. “Can you imagine having senile, and morally warped one Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker of the human being can get. House?” Frank Holmes is a reporter for And he beat back her allegations The Horn News. He is a veteran in the most Trump way imaginable journalist and an outspoken con- by posting the MS-13 fact sheet servative that talks about the news on the White House website — that was in his weekly article, “On and called it “What You Need To The Holmes Front.” Klayman (Continued from Page 13) People from government tyranny. of law in a nonpartisan way, even Go to www.freedomwatchusa. if he went against his own polit- org to support our legal efforts to ical benefactors who put him in have Mueller removed and stopped office. We need more judges like in his tracks before he and the ven- Emmet Sullivan if we are to have omous establishment fellow traitors any chance at keeping our republic in the “capital of corruption,” aka from collapsing under a sea of “the swamp,” destroy the miracle corruption. our Founding Fathers conceived of (Continued from Page 12) Duncan promised to make Nevada a safer place Below is a pastel drawing of and created on July 4, 1776, in my residents of Southern Nevada. to raise a family, including working toward better this historic hearing, done by the birthplace of Philadelphia. After serving one term in Congress, the Mesquite handling of mental health issues. He once proposed accomplished courtroom artist * * * * * native was narrowly defeated by North Las Vegas repealing the state’s renewable portfolio standard that William Hennessey. Save it for Larry Klayman is a former Jus- Democrat Ruben Kihuen, who is not running for has driven up power bills. He has been endorsed by a posterity as it will likely stand as tice Department prosecutor and re-election after facing sexual harassment allegations. number of police chiefs and district attorneys. historic proof that the rule of law the founder of Judicial Watch and Hardy will continue to fight for lower taxes and Barbara Cegavske deserves to be re-elected secre- can be restored in our great nation, Freedom Watch. His latest book is the creation of an economic environment that is con- tary of state, a job she has handled well — maintaining if federal judges simply obey their “Whores: Why and How I Came to ducive to the growth of job-creating businesses. He election integrity, streamlining business licensing oath of office and protect We the Fight the Establishment.” also promises to work toward balancing the federal and maintaining official records of the state. She has budget for a change. worked to improve the existing electronic voting Though state Senate Majority Leader Michael Rob- system. Republican Cegavske has also worked to erson did vote with the Republican majority to raise assure Nevada’s military members who are stationed taxes, his experience and otherwise conservative bona overseas may vote. fides make him the choice for lieutenant governor, a Nevada’s next state treasurer should be Republican job that includes presiding over the state Senate. He Bob Beers, a CPA who has served in five sessions of has been endorsed by Laxalt. the Nevada Legislature and is a former Las Vegas City Roberson has worked to provide Nevadans with Councilman. He was one of the “Fearless Fifteen” school choice, consolidated government agencies and who stopped Gov. Kenny Guinn from placing a gross regulations and worked to save money by reforming receipts tax. collective bargaining and public employee pensions. The treasurer’s job is to hold the states purse Republican Wes Duncan, formerly Laxalt’s first strings. Beers knows how to do that. assistant attorney general, deserves a promotion to * * * * * attorney general, the state’s lawyer. Duncan helped Thomas Mitchell is a former newspaper editor Laxalt in his many lawsuits defending the rights of who now writes conservative/libertarian columns for Nevada against federal encroachment. He left the weekly papers in Nevada. You may email Mitchell at Assembly to join Laxalt’s office and left the office [email protected]. He blogs at http://4thst8. upon filing for election. wordpress.com/. May 30-June 5, 2018 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 15 Trump-Russia probe marks one-year anniversary:This is what it has accomplished By James A. Gagliano political left have used the divide to conflate The Hill opinion contributor valid criticism of questionable senior FBI Has it only been one year? Somehow it and DOJ leadership actions as — wait for it feels like a lifetime. — partisan political attacks. Equally opportu- Robert Mueller was selected to be special nistic intransigents on the political right have prosecutor by Deputy Attorney General Rod stoked fear and mistrust in all governmental Rosenstein on May 17, 2017. Mueller was institutions, damaging relationships with expressly directed to investigate Russia’s the public and further eroding trust. All are meddling in the 2016 presidential election causing grievous harm to our country and but, in actuality, his appointment was a re- shredding any real opportunities for unity. flexive response to the firing of FBI director The mainstream press has overreached James Comey. in its efforts to sully a president who openly This was the correct move by a deputy AG loathes their alignment with the political who was thrust into the spotlight after Attor- left and feels the investigation’s leaks are ney General Jeff Sessions recused himself of designed to cripple his presidency. And the any Kremlin-related matters. And, to be fair, president now charges on Twitter that the a wholly unorthodox president had just been FBI planted a “representative” — undercover elected to the office. Donald Trump remains agent, informant, asset or cooperating wit- unfamiliar with the constitutional guardrails As with most polarizing topics, there may sentenced to 30 days in prison. Last Febru- ness — in his campaign. He may be drawing that protect the Republic; in spoken word and be a bit of truth to both. ary 13 Russian nationals and three Russian from a National Review column by former tweet, he has done more than just flirt with Some aspiring “political scientists” on companies were charged with meddling in the Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy the concept of authoritarian control. Twitter have argued that there were zero 2016 election. No U.S. citizens were included who has suggested the same. But two things are not mutually exclu- indictments or convictions resulting from in that 37-page indictment; the only mention Yet, while the Russia probe’s pending sive: Robert Mueller is an honorable arbiter the Whitewater probe, the House Select of Americans was in the context of “unwit- results are hotly debated and widely antici- of the facts and can be trusted, as I argued Committee on Benghazi investigation, and ting accomplice.” Ergo, any U.S. citizen pated, there may well be a far more conse- here — but he should have been conflicted the Clinton email probe. And they are correct. who communicated with Russians posing as quential report’s release around the corner. out of consideration for the position, as I They also charge that, to date in the Muel- American political activists on social media The DOJ’s inspector general, Michael argued here. ler probe, we have seen four former Trump platforms during the 2016 campaign had no Horowitz, is set to release publicly his America deserves confidence in our politi- campaign associates — Michael Flynn, knowledge they were communicating with findings following a review of the FBI’s cal system. The exposure of multiple miscues George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort and Kremlin agents. decisions, processes and protocols in the and dubious decisions by senior leadership Richard Gates — charged with crimes that Richard Pinedo, a California man, pled Clinton case. Sources indicate the IG found of the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) were not related to any misconduct by the guilty to selling bank accounts to Russian “reasonable grounds” to believe violations during the Hillary Clinton email-server inves- president’s campaign. meddlers. He used stolen identities to open of federal criminal law occurred in the FBI’s tigation and the Russian collusion probe have Flynn and Papadopoulos pled guilty to these accounts but was unaware of the inten- and DOJ’s handling of the Clinton case. This, understandably eroded some of that trust. making false statements to FBI agents, a tions of his Russian clients. ultimately, may result in a criminal referral A Pew Research poll shows that 61 per- violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 1001, a serious Deputy AG Rosenstein, who announced and potential prosecution of some ubiquitous cent of Americans are confident Mueller offense. But it is an ancillary “process crime” the indictment, concluded that “[t]here is no names in the Clinton investigation. will conduct a fair investigation. This, when having nothing to do with an underlying allegation in the indictment that the charged The IG may prove to be more adept at almost all polling in 2018 mirrors a dramat- scheme and only related to criminal conduct conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 getting to the bottom of provable wrongdo- ically bifurcated nation. that occurs during an investigation. election. Not exactly the “smoking gun” that ing at the FBI and DOJ than Mueller’s team Anecdotally speaking, it is difficult to Manafort and Gates were indicted on the #Resistance prayed for. may be in discerning Trump’s culpability in fathom that, a year into the investigation, conspiracy charges related to tax evasion and Yes, the probe is ongoing; there may be collusion or obstruction of justice. any finding has moved the needle in parti- bank fraud — but nothing related to Trump some jaw-dropping “there” there, once Muel- James A. Gagliano is a retired FBI super- san camps. The political left still envisions or the campaign. Shady business dealings are ler closes the investigation. But it’s becoming visory special agent and a CNN law enforce- Russians behind every potted plant at Trump part of the new 32-count indictment brought less likely by the day. ment analyst. He also serves as an adjunct Tower and wistfully dreams of a day when by the Mueller team; this may be an effort to What has become increasingly obvious assistant professor at St. John’s University Trump is led away in handcuffs. The political pressure Trump associates who had insider over the course of the past year’s probe is this: and is a leadership consultant at the Thayer right steadfastly maintains that the entire in- knowledge of the campaign — but it’s not an It has had a deleterious effect on our nation, Leader Development Group (TLDG) at his vestigation is part of a “deep state” effort to indication of collusion. and it continues to divide us. alma mater, the United States Military Acad- overturn the results of a lawful election and In April an attorney, Alex van der Zwaan, The president has used the opportunity to emy at West Point. Follow him on Twitter @ a political witch-hunt. pled guilty to lying to investigators and was attack the free press. Crafty partisans on the JamesAGagliano. Trump Tower transcripts show how one reckless meeting led to probe By Jonathan Turley ton’s top lawyer. It was buried as a single politician left at liberty. The Hill opinion contributor campaign expenditure to a law firm. None of this changes my view In an important step toward Clinton aides now express disbelief that special counsel Robert Muel- transparency, the Senate Judiciary that anyone would question such ler should be allowed to finish his Committee released over 2,500 “opposition research” on Trump, investigation or that real, though pages of materials from its inves- even from Russian sources. largely unrelated, crimes have been tigation of the infamous June 9, None of this changes the fact that exposed by Manafort and others. 2016, meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort However, it is also true that the Trump Jr., presidential son-in-law were idiots to take such a meeting. original purpose of the investiga- Jared Kushner, Trump campaign Clinton was far more sophisticated, tion — Russian collusion with the manager Paul Manafort, and Rus- using a surrogate like former British campaign — has thus far failed to sian figures promising evidence of spy Christopher Steele. Moreover, materialize. Mueller may well have criminal conduct by Hillary Clin- there remains uncertainty over the evidence, but it is unlikely to be ton. The transcripts are enlighten- identity of a caller who telephoned found in the Trump Tower meeting. ing, as critical witnesses under oath Trump Jr. after he spoke with The Trump Tower meeting is described in detail a classic bait- Russian pop star Emin Agalarov now ready for Ockham’s razor: and-switch meeting where Russians dirt on Hillary Clinton.” Nothing on and maybe just start again?’ And I about the meeting. The number Those 20 minutes have resulted in came promising dirt and left with the great conspiracy or collusion. recall that she began the presenta- was blocked and Senate Judiciary more than a year of investigation, disappointment on all sides. Just a detailed account of the quest tion exactly where she had begun Committee Republicans refused to countless hours of testimony and The public will have to reach for “dirt.” Trump Jr. admitted his it last time, almost word for word, subpoena the records to determine tens of thousands of documents. its own conclusions on the Trump ill-considered “I love it” comment which seemed, by his body lan- the identity of the caller. (President The most obvious explanation, with Tower meeting but it is now more was in response to the prospect guage, to infuriate him even more.” Trump is known to use a blocked the least assumptions, is that this likely to find enlightenment in the of getting official documents that Goldstone apologized to Trump Jr. number.) The committee should was a case of blind and reckless writings of a 14th century Fran- would expose Clinton as a crimi- for wasting his time. have subpoenaed that record. If that desire overcoming judgment. It is ciscan friar than from partisans in nal. If true, then the meeting was Many of the media continue call was Trump, it would sharply called a “razor” precisely because Congress. William of Ockham is moronic, naive, but entirely legal. to refuse to acknowledge the fact contradict the statements of the it “shaves away” unnecessary, or famous as the source of “Ockham’s Trump Jr. admitted he wanted that both campaigns were actively president and his son. in this case partisan, assumptions. razor,” the principle that when to see any official documents on seeking dirt on the other side, in- However, the transcript reveals When you shave away the unsup- presented with competing possible criminal conduct by Clinton. In cluding information from Russian a largely consistent and entirely ported facts, the Trump Tower solutions to a problem, one should this case, Trump Jr. was told that intelligence figures. While the plausible account of a meeting meeting appears hardly compli- select the answer that makes the the “crown prosecutor of Russia” Clinton campaign long denied the of chumps, not conspirators. The mentary but entirely legal. fewest assumptions. There is an had offered “to provide the Trump connection to the Steele dossier, statement drafted by President * * * * * obvious explanation for the Trump campaign with some official docu- including in meetings with inves- Trump on Air Force One was mis- Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Tower meeting, and it is not con- ments and information that would tigators, Clinton and her top cam- leading in failing to mention the Professor of Public Interest Law spiracy, but stupidity. incriminate Hillary and her deal- paign officials belatedly admitted original purpose of the meeting. at George Washington University. For more than a year, some of ings with Russia and would be to funding the dossier after media But if such spins were crimes in You can follow him on Twitter @ us have argued that allegations very useful to your father.” Music found evidence linking it to Clin- Washington, there would not be a JonathanTurley. of collusion or conspiracy in the promoter Rod Goldstone added, Trump Tower meeting were un- “This is obviously very high level substantiated and illogical. If a and sensitive information but is Muth true conspiracy occurred between part of Russia and its government’s (Continued from Page 13) “Think Big, Vote Small.” the Trump campaign and Russian support for Mr. Trump.” ture passed the largest tax hike in state history wasn’t Oscarson is being challenged by another pro-busi- intelligence, why would they ever All of the participants confirmed because we didn’t have enough Republicans in office ness conservative/libertarian, Dennis Hof, who is best call a meeting with unknown par- that the meeting was brief — around to block it, but that we didn’t have enough CONSER- known for owning seven LEGAL brothels in Nevada ticipants in the most highly visible 20 minutes — and that no real ev- VATIVE Republicans in office. and the star of the award-winning HBO reality TV location possible? idence was supplied or discussed. Assemblyman John Ellison was one of the good series, “Cathouse.” The Russians may be duplici- All of the witnesses were consistent guys who voted against that Mother of All Tax Hikes. Hof is also a proud signer of the Tax Pledge. (Dis- tous, but they are not stupid. What in describing a meeting billed as the In fact, Citizen Outreach awarded him last September claimer: I’m a paid adviser to the Hof campaign) was the benefit of such a meeting disclosure of criminal conduct but with its “Conservative Legislator of the Year” award. As my friend Grover Norquist of Americans for when the Russians could work actually meant to raise the continu- But he’s angered the Big Government Republicans. Tax Reform is wont to say, “Republicans who vote for through back channels to get the in- ing controversy over the Magnitsky As such, the establishment has put a deep-pocketed, higher taxes are like ratheads in a Coke bottle. They formation to journalists or a single Act, a 2012 congressional bill that certified tax-hiking Republican up against him. Making ruin the brand for everybody.” insider? Instead, conspiracy the- imposed restrictions on travel and John the only true conservative Assembly incumbent Hambrick and Oscarson are Republican “ratheads.” orists suggested that the Russians banking on 18 Russian officials and under threat this year in a GOP primary. He needs to They should be treated as such. picked a clownish British music other figures. It remains an ongoing be saved! The only way to advance the limited-government promoter to arrange a meeting by controversy in Russia and was the Meanwhile, of the thirteen sell-out Assembly Re- constitutional conservative movement is to, as Mr. expressly promising compromis- long focus of Russian lawyer Na- publicans who betrayed voters by voting for the $1.4 Viguerie points out, “prune away the dead wood of ing information from the Russian talia Veselnitskaya. billion Sandoval Tax Hike in 2015, eleven of them are the Republican establishment” in GOP primaries. And government in writing. The use of the meeting to pitch now gone — either forced into retirement or defeated he is so “right.” One of the most interesting for the rescission of the Magnitsky in elections. Great advice for Nevada conservatives going to the aspects of the new information Act was described by Goldstone as The two remaining tax-hikers are Assemblyman polls on June 12th. was the response from the media. an embarrassment. He testified that John Hambrick and Assemblyman James Oscarson. * * * * * CNN, which has a bevy of legal “Jared Kushner, who is sitting next Hambrick is being challenged by a pro-business Chuck Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a analysts who have been flogging to me, appeared somewhat agitated conservative, Jim Small, who has signed the Taxpayer non-profit public policy grassroots advocacy organiza- the Trump Tower conspiracy for by this and said, ‘I really have no Protection Pledge promising voters that he will “oppose tion and publisher of NevadaNewsandViews.com. He months, ran the headline, “Trump idea what you’re talking about. and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes.” may be reached by email at cmuth@lasvegastribune. Tower transcripts detail quest for Could you please focus a bit more And he has a great campaign slogan (unlike most): com. Page 16 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / May 30-June 5, 2018 The people really benefiting from California’s sanctuary laws By Nolan Rappaport ICE had to change its enforcement oper- The Hill opinion contributor ations from taking custody of immigrants at President Donald Trump declared his op- police stations to looking for undocumented position to sanctuary policies when he signed immigrants in the community, which resulted Executive Order 13768, “Enhancing Public in arresting approximately 40,000 noncrimi- Safety in the Interior of the United States,” nal immigrants in fiscal 2017. during his first month in office. It states that The main obstacle to deporting to the extent permitted by law, jurisdictions removable immigrants is the that willfully refuse to share immigration immigration court backlog crisis. information with federal immigration officers According to TRAC Immigration, as of will not be eligible to receive federal grants. the end of April 2017, when the backlog was Shortly after the order was released, two 585,930 cases, most immigrants were waiting California localities filed suit in federal dis- about 670 days for a hearing. trict court seeking to halt the implementation At a panel discussion last year on the back- of that directive. log, Immigration Judge Larry Burman said: This began a dispute between Trump and “I cannot give you a merits hearing on the state of California over its sanctuary my docket unless I take another case off. policies that is still going on. Institute (EPI) on labor laws that California state of California; My docket is full through 2020, and I was The most recent lawsuit was filed by the has enacted to protect unauthorized immi- —S.B. 1001 and A.B. 622 made it more instructed by my assistant chief immigration Department of Justice. The DOJ seeks to grant workers indicates that many immi- difficult for employers to use the employment judge not to set any cases past 2020.” enjoin three of California’s sanctuary laws grants who have been attracted to California authorization process to retaliate against un- From April 2017 to April 2018, the back- which allegedly reflect a deliberate attempt by its sanctuary policies are being exploited authorized immigrant workers; and log for the immigration courts increased by to obstruct the enforcement of federal im- by unscrupulous employers. —A.B. 450 discouraged employers almost 20 percent to 692,298 cases. migration law. According to EPI, fear of being reported from using the I-9 process for verifying the These lengthy wait times make it neces- One of these laws is S.B. 54, which, in to Immigration and Customs Enforcement identity and employment eligibility of their sary to release newly arrested immigrants addition to restricting the sharing of immi- (ICE) gives employers extraordinary power employees to retaliate against undocumented until hearings can be scheduled for them, gration information with federal immigration to take advantage of unauthorized immigrant immigrant workers. which gives them time to disappear into the officers, prohibits the transfer of criminal employees. Presumably, exploited immigrants think shadows. aliens to federal custody. California has enacted seven laws to the abuse is an acceptable price to pay for Conclusion. If this dispute escalates, the next step may protect undocumented workers from being protection from being deported. They don’t Apparently, the main beneficiaries of be harboring prosecutions of California of- exploited by their employers: have to stay in California. California’s sanctuary policies are deportable ficials who are deliberately making it easier —A.B. 263 prohibited employers from But are California’s sanctuary laws immigrants in police custody who otherwise for immigrants to remain in the United States using immigration-related threats to retaliate really protecting them from would be turned over to ICE when they are illegally, such as the officials responsible for against employees who have exercise their being deported? released and unscrupulous employers who the enactment of California A.B. 60. labor rights; According to a report from the Migration exploit undocumented immigrant workers. A.B. 60 required the California Depart- —S.B. 666 made it easier for immigrant Policy Institute, Trump’s immigration en- * * * * * ment of Motor Vehicle to issue driver’s workers to sue employers who retaliate forcement efforts have been hurt by pushback Nolan Rappaport was detailed to the licenses to undocumented immigrants who against them for exercising their workplace from California and cities such as Chicago, House Judiciary Committee as an executive can establish state residency. More than a rights; New York and Boston that have sanctuary branch immigration law expert for three million immigrants in the country illegally —A.B. 524 expanded the definition of policies. years; he subsequently served as an immi- have received a California driver’s license. “criminal extortion” to include threats related Sanctuary policies prevent local police gration counsel for the Subcommittee on Is California really helping to immigration status; departments from turning inmates over to Immigration, Border Security and Claims for undocumented immigrants with —A.B. 2571 modified A.B. 263 to permit ICE when they are released from custody, four years. Prior to working on the Judiciary its sanctuary policies? the $10,000 civil penalty for retaliation to be which has resulted in returning some danger- Committee, he wrote decisions for the Board A recent report from the Economic Policy awarded to the employee instead of to the ous criminal immigrants to the community. of Immigration Appeals for 20 years. Tax reform has provided a ripe opportunity for American workers By Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.), filer, with no kids, will see a $450 The Hill opinion contributor boost in his or her annual pay be- Since President Trump took of- cause of the TCJA and the altered fice, our economy has been strong withholding tables. A joint filer — low unemployment, the lowest with two kids would receive $1,350 African American unemployment boost in annual pay. Those extra since the statistic has been kept funds are not crumbs, but instead by the Department of Labor, high help people to save for education, consumer confidence, and record retirement, a vacation, care for setting stock market gains. Since loved ones, Christmas presents February 2017, 2.28 million jobs and more. have been added to the economy. The TCJA presents a ripe oppor- Now, America can add wage tunity for the American worker. An growth to this impressive list. opportunity that the Obama admin- Before the Tax Cuts and Jobs istration could never quite attain. Act (TCJA) was signed into law, With the TCJA and the Trump wage growth had been essentially Administration we are seeing the stagnant since the end of the 2008 beginnings of wage growth with financial crisis and plagued the With unemployment already Program (SNAP), unemployment government, in turn, decreasing the altered withholding tables and American worker. low, this creates a demand for the insurance, and other government government spending. over 450 companies announcing Since the TCJA was signed into American worker, leading compa- programs, into our nation’s work- All of this works in tandem bonuses or wage increases for their law in late December, wages have nies to boost wages, enhance ben- force. with the Treasury Department’s employees. been growing. In January, the La- efits, and simply be more attractive I understand that these are im- announcement that the withholding This is only the beginning of bor Department reported that wag- for potential employees to gain the portant programs to help people in tables will be changed for 2018 what we will do with a simplified, es rose by 2.9 percent, the largest workforce needed to serve more need, but these government safety to reflect lower taxes due to the fair tax code and an administration increase since the financial crisis. Americans that now have more nets also comprise untapped poten- TCJA. As you may know, the U.S. that focuses on the well-being of The new tax law created by the buying power from tax cuts. tial in our American workforce that uses a ‘pay as you go’ tax system. our national economy. TCJA is expected to create 10,000 Some may say that this demand companies need. Low unemploy- Taxpayers lend money to the Inter- * * * * * jobs in my home state of Georgia for employees strains businesses ment, plus job creation through the nal Revenue Service (IRS) in each Rep. Buddy Carter represents alone. Across the nation, the Tax to find a workforce. However, this TCJA, presents a ripe opportunity paycheck they receive that they the 1st District of Georgia in the Foundation estimates that the presents another opportunity — to give these Americans steady then account for when tax payers United States House of Representa- TCJA will create approximately transitioning individuals from the jobs, more buying power, and a file at the end of the year. tives. Carter is the only pharmacist 350,000 jobs. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance decrease in their reliance on the It is estimated that a single tax in Congress. Dodd-Frank rollback will reinvigorate Main Street By Alfredo Ortiz arenas, restaurants and sporting nationwide deposits, up from one- The Hill opinion contributor good stores across rural America. fifth before the crisis. They are now Who says Congress can’t get Big banks use algorithms to make well over double their pre-financial anything accomplished in an elec- their lending decisions; small banks crisis size. And these three account tion year? depend on personal relationships for nearly half of new checking Last week, Congress passed and a strong handshake to make accounts. long-overdue legislation to free theirs. The Wall Street Journal recently community banks from the vice grip Yet the compliance costs asso- dubbed rural America “the new in- of the Dodd-Frank financial reg- ciated with Dodd-Frank disrupted ner city.” And it’s true that for many ulations that passed in 2010. This small banks. Research out of the small towns across the country, the will increase access to credit for Minneapolis Federal Reserve found Great Recession never ended. Re- small businesses across the country, that hiring just two compliance em- invigorated Main Streets can help reinvigorating Main Streets and ployees to adhere to its regulations fix this. Yet strong local banks are communities that — even in today’s makes one-third of small banks prerequisites for a flourishing small strong economy — are still recover- from speculative trading. These action.) unprofitable. For other banks, loan businesses. The reforms in this ing from the Great Recession. banks also will be free from bur- Small banks punch above their compliance software can cost more legislation will help small banks The legislation, which passed densome reporting requirements on weight. They only have about 10 than the profit from the loan. regain their presence as pillars of with bipartisan support, includes a their borrowers. percent of the banking industry’s This impact is demonstrated their communities. number of provisions to address the These reforms will free up com- assets, but make roughly one-quar- by the dearth of community banks Congress should build on this most damaging aspects of Dodd- munity banks to make the loans that ter of the country’s commercial in recent years. Over the past 10 legislative momentum to help small Frank. Most notably, it raises the are the lifeblood of small business loans, two-thirds of its small busi- years, their numbers have fallen by businesses even more. asset threshold above which banks creation and expansion. According ness loans, and three-quarters of one-third — an average of four per Alfredo Ortiz is president and are subject to onerous Dodd-Frank to a 2016 nationwide survey of its agricultural loans. A 2014 MIT week. Before the financial crisis, CEO of the Job Creators Network, regulations to $250 billion from $50 small business owners conducted study found that when banking about 200 new banks were created a nonpartisan organization whose billion. Only the 12 biggest banks by the Job Creators Network, lack branches close, small business each month; since Dodd-Frank mission is to educate and protect in the nation meet this higher asset of access to credit is one of the lending falls by nearly 40 percent. there have been only four. the 85 million people who depend threshold, less than one-third of the biggest hurdles facing small busi- While big banks engage in exot- In a textbook case of unintended on the success of small businesses. current number. nesses today. (The other big hurdles ic financial instruments, which may consequences, Dodd-Frank has He has testified before legislative The bill also exempts the small- identified by small businesses — exacerbate or even contribute to only helped the big banks grow committees about the impact of est banks — those with less than over-taxation and over-regulation financial crises, small banks make bigger because they have faced less taxation and regulation on small $10 billion in assets — from the — have been partially addressed by the vanilla loans that are respon- competition as a result. The three business growth and speaks fre- Volcker rule, which restricts banks recent congressional and executive sible for, say, the new downtown biggest hold about one-third of quently to business organizations. May 30-June 5, 2018 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 17 Trump will never sacrifice American security in dealing with North Korea By Rebeccah Heinrichs will be little merit in the outcome, as it will secured the release of three American pris- The Hill opinion contributor only indicate a continuation of past behavior oners. Yes, he continued military exercises President Trump has, for now, cancelled that has always ended in failure.” without much alteration. Yes, the sanctions the highly anticipated June summit with But what about the recent press conference stayed in place, and he never changed his North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The stated during which President Trump said the Unit- demands. reason for his decision was the recent state- ed States was not pursuing the Libya model? But the administration did relieve some ments from a senior North Korean official in He was directly refuting the accusation that diplomatic pressure. There was the photo op which she threatened nuclear war. According his plan for North Korea includes what many with Kim Jong Un and Secretary Pompeo, to press reports, North Korean officials had wrongly associate with the Libyan nuclear shaking hands and smiling, no less. President also not been responding to U.S. correspon- disarmament, and that was in 2011, when Trump has said kind words directed toward dence and stood up U.S. officials. No doubt Libyans deposed Muammar Gaddafi with the dictator. There is now the infamous cre- there is more the public does not know. There the help from the United States. But what ation of the summit challenge coin. The pivot are a few points worth considering. happened under the Obama administration of the administration from condemnation to First, U.S. officials have made it clear that then was in response to the brutal oppression openness and praise has been deliberate. It the United States wants to see North Korea of the Libyan people and their willingness to was regrettably overdone, but it was also the “make a strategic decision” to denuclearize, risk their lives to depose Gaddafi. least costly of any kind of show of good faith. and North Korea has clearly not done that. Bolton mentioned the “Libya model” in the Warnings by President Trump and Vice Still, the administration has approached This means the United States is not looking context of North Korea. So what? In 2003, President Pence that the Libya model is what the North Korea problem basically the right for compromise on the North Korean nuclear U.S. negotiators successfully worked with will happen if Kim Jong Un does not denucle- way by always hedging, remaining realistic program, a compromise akin to the Iran deal, Libyan officials and came up with a plan for arize contributed to the confusion about what about the prospects of negotiations going for example. Kim Jong Un cannot demand to removing all elements of the Libyan nuclear Bolton was describing in the Libya model. south fast, keeping economic sanctions have “what Iran has been allowed to have” weapons program, as well as its longer range But it is also clear, for anyone earnestly try- firmly in place, continuing U.S. joint military because the United States has returned to the ballistic missiles. ing to understand President Trump, that his exercises with allies, seeking a diplomatic policy before the Obama administration when Nothing about the characterization by warning about what will happen if Kim Jong solution in good faith, and remaining willing Iran was allowed to have nothing, no nuclear Bolton of the U.S. plan for North Korea Un does not denuclearize is the same as his to walk when it becomes clear the ultimate program, at all. contradicts anything President Trump or past warnings. U.S. objective is out of reach. Second, despite insistence from his critics, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had said re- President Trump said the U.S. desired The United States is not obligated to ac- President Trump has clearly said the summit garding the U.S. objectives leading up to the outcome “would be with Kim Jong Un, some- cept that North Korea must be permitted to might not happen, and as committed as he is North Korean rejection of those objectives thing where he would be there, he would be in have a nuclear program that holds Americans to giving negotiations a chance, he is also per- and intentions. The United States requires his country, he would be running his country, and our allies hostage to nuclear attack. But fectly willing to walk. It is a myth that he was complete, verifiable, irreversible denucle- his country would be very rich, his country if North Korea insists that it is, and refuses cornered into making a deal or that he should arization from North Korea, and there are would be very industrious.” After providing to make the strategic decision that Libya be embarrassed by calling off the summit. It is lessons from the denuclearization of Libya such reassurances that the United States made, the blame for the potentially disastrous disappointing, and his base of supporters are for the United States to model. was absolutely not seeking regime change, results will rest squarely with Kim Jong Un, eager to have a Nobel Peace Prize bestowed Ambassador Robert Joseph, who played a he warned, “The best thing he could do is not President Trump, who is rightly refusing on him. But as President Trump said, the prize leading role in removing weapons in Libya, to make a deal.” What ultimately happened to sacrifice American security for the sake of is “victory for the world.” said, “With Libya, it became apparent that to Gaddafi is what will take place if no deal what would be deadly compromise. Third, claims from his critics that Pres- Gaddafi had made the decision to abandon happens. * * * * * ident Trump or his officials are to blame his nuclear program.” He continued, “With The last point is that the critics are right Rebeccah Heinrichs is a senior national for derailing the deal are completely bogus. North Korea, a strategic decision to abandon about one thing. It is not true that the United security fellow with the Hudson Institute Yes, President Trump, Vice President Mike its nuclear program may take a different States “gave up nothing” leading up to the and contributing foreign policy editor for Pence, and national security adviser John form. But without a strategic decision, there summit. Yes, President Trump successfully Providence Magazine. US needs workforce with technology skills for the future By Christos Makridis answers. One of us and a coauthor nearly all of the lost jobs were in to think critically about how to to train students to become adaptive and Aparna Mathur have developed an index, based low information technology in- encourage workers to invest in new and flexible learners in their careers The Hill opinion contributors on Labor Department survey data, tensity areas. Manufacturing itself skills and become lifelong learners. to remain competitive. Technolog- The White House recently host- which allows jobs across the coun- became more high technology, General familiarity with computers ical change may be inevitable, but ed a technology summit to discuss try to be classified as information leading to a much greater demand and information technology is be- our response to it will determine the potential challenges and oppor- technology and non-information for workers with computing and coming a requirement for workers. whether it is a boon or a curse for a tunities posed by artificial intelli- technology intensive. We apply the technical skills. The traditional model of a four-year vast majority of American workers. gence. While artificial intelligence classification to monthly data on A second related point is about college degree as the pathway to a * * * * * has been successful in delivering hourly wages among individuals earnings. College educated workers middle class lifestyle does work, Christos Makridis (@ca- benefits to people in health care, from the current population survey earn more per hour in a week, rel- but only up to a point. makridis) is a fellow at the MIT food delivery, energy and trans- between 2000 and early 2018. ative to their non-college educated Continuing investments in paid Sloan Initiative on the Digital portation, there exists widespread This yields some interesting counterparts. Although college apprenticeship programs, or retrain- Economy and a fellow with the concern that artificial intelligence findings. The first is that while educated workers earn more than ing programs within firms, as well Harvard Kennedy School Cyber will make several types of jobs much has been made of the decline their counterparts, those working as a focus on science, technology, Security Initiative. Aparna Mathur obsolete, including those sectors in manufacturing jobs over the last in information technology earn engineering and mathematics are (@aparnamath) is a resident schol- like finance. several decades due to automation 3 percent more than college edu- much more important. Educational ar in economic policy studies at the As such, it is more important and offshoring, we now can analyze cated workers in non-information institutions will increasingly need American Enterprise Institute. than ever to teach American work- what replaced those jobs. The data technology jobs. Moreover, the ers to take advantage of artificial show that between 1980 and 2015, gap has widened significantly since Kennedy intelligence through new skills and automation may have led to job the financial crisis. Differences in (Continued from Page 12) of the time in split rulings) and the learning programs. But what should destruction, but it also increased compensation and labor utilization right-leaning voters cheering. leftist judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg the actual programs look like? The job creation elsewhere. reflect an increasing demand for Trump’s pick last year of Neil (46 percent). answer is not obvious, given that While previously employed workers in information technology Gorsuch was a signal to conserva- In other words, if there’s a con- the relative earnings power of a workers in manufacturing struggled intensive jobs. tives that had been hesitant about sistent message in his rulings, it’s college degree has been flattening due to the loss of traditional jobs, If the United States wants to his presidency that the legal system hard to spot. in recent years. If college is not information technology intensive capitalize on the opportunities was in safe hands. But that hasn’t stopped the pre- enough, then what is? jobs fared quite well over these created by artificial intelligence, Others even saw it specifically dictions market from heating up. A new study offers some hopeful years. Even within manufacturing, companies and policymakers need as a signal to Kennedy: Retire now “It’s entirely possible that Ken- and the seat will go to an intellec- nedy says on the last day, ‘Peace. Kirk tual conservative legal mind. I’m out,’” Josh Blackman, an asso- (Continued from Page 13) of compassion for the least among us has been relent- After all, Gorsuch was once ciate professor of law at the South of 15 years or less, and 95 percent will be released at less and deafening. Presented with an opportunity to Kennedy’s clerk! Texas College of Law in Houston some time. Do we want to condemn those people to create meaningful change and make a real difference But he and Gorusch haven’t Others think that’s unlikely, and note that he has hired law clerks for a revolving door of prison-to-release to prison-to-re- in the lives of real people, they balk. They posture, gotten off to a fast start. They are often at odds with each other and, in the next term. lease? Do we want to try something else? Democrats they protest, and they whine. Using his superpowers, divided cases during the last term, “I wouldn’t be surprised if he have long wanted to. Until now, when they no longer President Trump has exposed them to be both dishon- fully agreed just 38 percent of the remains on the bench,” Christine want to because the president also wants to. est and pathetic. time according to SCOTUS Blog. Kexel Chabot, who teaches at This recidivism comes at a great cost to society, As a loyal Trump supporter, member of the conser- In a sign of just how much Ken- Loyola University Chicago School and it leads to the complete and total ruination of the vative base, and grassroots organizer, I call on Senate nedy defies convention, he had the of Law, told The New York Times. individual. Americans almost universally embrace the Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to immediately most agreement with conservative One thing is certain: If Kenne- notion of redemption when it comes to fictional stories bring this bill to the Senate floor for a vote and rally Chief Justice John Roberts at 82 dy does quit and his replacement or celebrity downfalls. Conservatives have long had a his members to pass the most impactful prison reform percent followed by the very liberal isn’t appointed immediately, this weakness in this area when it comes to those convicted in American history. Elena Kagan at 74 percent. autumn’s midterm elections could of a crime because of their reflexive “law and order” Charlie Kirk (@CharlieKirk11) is the founder Even his disagreements were put more than the balance of power posturing. Trump is trying to help them get past that. and president of Turning Point USA, a conservative split: He was most likely to com- in Congress on the line. Democrats, social justice warriors, on the other nonprofit that aims to educate students on free-market pletely disagree with the conserva- The future of the Supreme Court hand, have no excuse. Their self-righteous professing values. tive Clarence Thomas (54 percent will be at stake, too. Maramis (Continued from Page 12) ponderer and a doer. And he loved that that was something he really we’d prefer when the time comes, prepared in case of one’s eventual direction was service to others, his football. Everyone in the study had to attend to. Now I wonder if but have we done anything about it? death is one thing; there is always which he chose to give on both group knew he could be counted he ever did. Do we have a will, a trust? Have we that feeling of having a tomorrow. Mondays and Tuesdays, at Christ on to show up at all our meetings We all can ponder on the passing lined up an executor for taking care But to not be prepared for one’s un- the King Catholic Church, by way — except during football season, of our servicemen and -women of our business? Have we written expected death is like betting your of making sandwiches and such to especially when the Green Bay when Memorial Day rolls around, letters to those we might want to life on having time to do that later. help feed the homeless and the oth- Packers were playing. Between but now I have something else to be in touch with before it’s too late? Can you really afford to lose that erwise hungry who came to depend football, UFOs and everything we remember on that particular day. Have we thought about the little or bet? What if you have a fatal heart on the generosity of the church and discussed at our study group, we And because his passing was more big things we own that we would attack tomorrow? Or get in a fatal the open-hearted and giving spirit all knew what would keep him in- or less sudden — at least to all those want to give to certain people we car crash this weekend? How would of the volunteers. volved in a serious — and lengthy who didn’t spend his last couple of know? Have we gathered up all that make your family feel, after the Among the many activities that — conversation. weeks in close proximity to him — the documents that our executor initial shock and sorrow, to find that Lyle took on in his quest to improve I still don’t have all the de- I want to make a reminder plea to might need and left them in an you left no will, no provisions for life in general for those in his circle tails of his passing, but I had a everyone: no one knows when his easy-to-find place to make his or them, and even no money to pay for of friends and acquaintances, and feeling something was going on own number will be up, and as you her job easier? your cremation or burial? for our country in particular, were when I didn’t hear from him for a read these words, you know full Have we made any preparations Safety first is a good motto for always trying to explain certain few weeks, since we had been in well if you have made provisions at all for “when our time comes”? living life, but it won’t keep you truths to those seeking to learn, constant touch since I moved to for your passing — for who will We don’t always have a tomorrow. alive forever; being prepared for and to write letters to high officials Pahrump. He made it a point to read manage your affairs, see to your Going off to war gives every ser- both life and death is a good motto in our government to hopefully get all my columns and to comment on belongings, and even take care of viceman or -woman a big incentive that will give everyone a lot more them to see what could or ought to those of special interest to him. your pets...to say nothing of who to be prepared. But those who are peace of mind. be done in order to save lives, save One of the columns he made it will see to the more immediate just living their ordinary lives and Maramis Choufani is the Man- money, and fix problems for which a point to comment on was the one needs of your burial or cremation feeling okay in general don’t be- aging Editor of the Las Vegas he felt he had a solution. He didn’t about getting one’s affairs in order, and such. Have you set any money lieve they have a pressing incentive Tribune. She writes a weekly col- hesitate to go straight to the top with and making plans for the care of aside for that? If not, who will take to prepare for their eventual — or umn in this newspaper. To contact his suggestions. one’s pets after one is gone. He told on that financial burden? even their unexpected — demise Maramis, email her at maramis@ Lyle was a reader, a thinker, a me, on more than one occasion, We all have thoughts about what and keep putting it off. Not being lasvegastribune.com. Page 18 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / May 30-June 5, 2018 EntErtainmEnt

Clubhouse Deli: Executive Pastry Chef Oliveier Carlos, Executive Chef Bruce A. Knapik, and Vince Rubino, Restaurant Manager. Clubhouse Deli Grand Opening in the JW Marriott Hotel By Sandy Zimmerman delis complete with custom-marble Las Vegas Tribune cases, an exposed kitchen, pendant Photos by Sandy Zimmerman lighting and an open floorplan, Executives from JW Marriott while designed for all Rampart Hotel, Rampart Casino and the Casino and JW Marriott Las Vegas Clubhouse Deli attended the Club- guests in mind, Clubhouse Deli house Deli’s grand opening as well offers variety. as members of the press and invited Hours: Open Monday to Friday guests. from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and from Sandy interviewed 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday and Sous Chef Adriano Jamie, III Sunday. You can choose a table or of the Clubhouse Deli just take-out for a whole meal or SZ: “What a dessert menu! I quick bite. know the desserts taste sooo good, For information, call: 702- but they not for diets. Can I find 869-7722. The Clubhouse Deli is anything for a healthy diet here? inside the Rampart Casino, at the Chef Adriano: “We offer glu- JW Marriot Hotel, 221 N. Rampart ten-free and sugar-free desserts. Boulevard, in Summerlin, North On our regular menu, there’s every- Durango Avenue becomes Rampart thing from wings, Artisan and sea- Boulevard. sonal salads as well as the exclusive * * * * * Boar’s Head meats and cheeses.” Award winning Sandy Zim- SZ: “You have quite a variety merman is a syndicated columnist of selections, the one that everyone featuring Show and Dining reviews, notices in the showcase is the really Travel, Health, Cars, Luxury, Spas, tall seemingly over flowing Classic Automobiles and more. Sandy is talk Reuben sandwich filled with 8 ounc- show host of the Las Vegas Today es of beef pastrami or corned beef Show programs around Las Vegas brisket plus gold label Switzerland and Discover the Ultimate Vacation Swiss cheese and whatever else they travel specials in United States and want on the thick Marble rye bread. around the world. To suggest topics I would need someone to share that for articles, for information or to with me!” ask any questions about Sandy’s Chef Adriano: “For the warmer articles, call (702)-731-6491 or weather, we feature Feta cheese email sandyzimm2003@yahoo. with pickled onion, spicy lemon com. SUGGESTIONS: Do you juice and olive oil.” have a favorite singer, comedian, SZ: “If we just want deli, there’s magician, hypnotist, group, spe- a big selection.” cialty act, production show or any Chef Adriano: “We prepare entertainer in Las Vegas? Please sliced meats to order either by the let us know your choice and you pound or half-a-pound.” may win free show tickets or other SZ: “I like the “Build Your Own prizes. Send the reason for your Sandwich or Sub,” we can choose choice, your name/e-mail and tele- the bread, meat, cheese, dressing, Sous Chef Adriano Jaime, III phone number. and garnish just the way we want Casino’s answer to fast-casual for guests glued to the big screens, it!” dining options in Summerlin. Ad- or even the perfect spot to pick You can find vegetarian, vegan, jacent to the recently updated Race up treats before heading home. gluten-free and original selections & Sports Book, Clubhouse Deli is For more information, please visit at the Clubhouse Deli. the perfect option for a tasty and www.ClubhouseDeli.com. The Clubhouse Deli is Rampart healthy lunch, mid-game snack Modeled after famous New York

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By Mike Kermani return for its second year on Sat- phrase he pioneered. SPROUTS FARMERS ber benefits, or to apply, visit about. Las Vegas Tribune urday, June 23, bringing together Laboe’s guests on this special MARKET HIRING MORE sprouts.com/careers or call 1-866- STATION CASINOS craft beer and tacos for a culinary night include Latin artists El Chi- THAN 140 FOR 925-2396 for non-managerial roles. VGK WATCH PARTIES competition showcasing the talents cano, MC Magic, Lighter Shade LAS VEGAS STORE Since opening its doors 15 years Watch our Vegas Golden of some of Las Vegas’ top chefs. of Brown, Tierra, Sunny Ozuna Sprouts Farmers Market, one of ago, Sprouts has built a reputation Knights with other locals at your The event will be held at Zappos and René y René. Doors open at 7 the fastest-growing retailers in the for offering fresh, natural and neighborhood Station Casinos loca- Headquarters’ backyard in Down- p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m. country, today announced it will organic products at affordable tion! Our watch parties include free town Las Vegas, a venue typically Tickets start at $35. soon finish construction on anew prices. Sprouts’ knowledgeable entry, drink specials, various VGK closed to the public, from 8 to 11 The diverse bill features acts location in Las Vegas, Nev. to help team members are trained to help swag giveaways, and of course free p.m. from the last six decades across all meet the growing local demand for customers select the right products fresh, natural and organic foods at parking. The Hopped Taco Throwdown genres of music. for their healthy living journey. great prices Guests can also enjoy more HARD ROCK CAFE will gather some of the best and A ‘60s brown-eyed soul group The 30,000-square-foot store than 2,400 Sprouts Brand prod- VGK VIEWING PARTIES most innovative breweries and from Los Angeles, El Chicano will be located at 1140 East Silver- ucts, which meet strict ingredient Watch the Vegas Golden Knights chefs spanning the Las Vegas blends rock, funk, soul, blues, jazz, ado Ranch Boulevard and will open standards while delivering excep- in their quest for the Cup at Hard Valley. and salsa. Known for his albums on Wednesday, August 22 at 7 a.m. tional taste and value. The healthy Rock Cafe, across from T-Mobile Twelve chefs will step out of “Magic City” and “Magic City Part Details about the grand opening grocer has been a driving force for Arena. their culinary comfort zones and 2,” MC Magic is a rapper, song- celebration innovation in natural and organic Admission $10 (includes two strive to earn the title of “Hopped writer and record producer who will be announced at a later date. foods since its inception, and has call brand drink tickets and a guar- Taco Champion” in one of three raps and sings in both English and The new Las Vegas Sprouts is paved the way for numerous niche anteed seat). categories: Hopped Taco, for best- Spanish. Rappers A Lighter Shade bringing approximately 140 full- brands, many of which were first BUFFET-SYLE VIEW- beer-infused taco; Taco Loco, for of Brown charted big in 1990 with and part-time carried by Sprouts. ING PARTIES AT VEGAS’ most creative taco; and Taco Dulce, their infectious hit “On A Sunday career opportunities to the area. Las Vegas shoppers will discov- #1 HOCKEY BAR — for best dessert taco. Afternoon.” Sprouts’ “Healthy Living for Less” er an abundant selection of fresh BROOKSY’S BAR & GRILL Motley Brews will bring togeth- Tierra rose to prominence in the approach to grocery shopping fruits and vegetables and barrels of Don’t just watch the Stanley er top-notch breweries to comple- ‘70s and ‘80s in Los Angeles with means potential team members wholesome grains, nuts and sweets Cup Finals anywhere — come to ment the tacos with endless samples several Latin R&B hits, including should share a passion for healthy in a bright, open store layout. Brooksy’s Bar and Grill — the of craft brews. a remake of The Intruders’ “To- eating and the fresh, natural and Each store features an in-house only bar with a full ice rink visible Last year’s winners included gether.” “El Cancionero” Sunny organic products offered through- butcher who prepares hand-crafted from the dining area! Enjoy a buffet Chef Geno Bernardo from The Ozuna of Sunny & the Sunliners out the store. sausages daily and assists custom- during all games at $20 per person Black Sheep for the Taco Dulce, is known for his distinct style that Employment opportunities in- ers with special cuts of meat and with bottomless soft drinks, drink Chef Jamie Tran from Fix Restau- mixes rhythm and blues, tejano, clude: seafood seasoning. Shoppers will specials and promotions and give- rant & Bar for the Taco Loco and blues, and mariachi. —Department Managers, As- also enjoy a variety of fresh and aways. Our drink specials include Chef Sterling Buckley from La Latin pop duo René y René were sistant Department Managers and prepared deli items ideal for a gr- Clerks (Produce, Meat and Sea- $3 beers, $5 Tito’s and Jameson and Cave for the Hopped Taco. among the first Chicano artists to ab-and-go lunch or dinner, a wide food, Deli, Grocery, Bakery, Vi- selection of freshly baked goods much more. Both general admission and perform on “American Bandstand,” tamins and Body Care and more) and craft beer and wine. Bring your friends and bring the VIP tickets are available for the and they swept the ‘60s with songs —Cashiers The Vitamins and Body Care family! Go Knights, Go! 21+ event, which includes endless such as 1964’s “Angelito” and —Courtesy Clerks Department features more than CROWN & ANCHOR tacos and craft beer samples. Prices 1969’s “Lo Mucho que Te Quiero.” —Backup Receiver, Admin- 7,500 cutting-edge vitamin and VGK VIEWING PARTIES will vary with purchase times with For tickets, visit primmval- istrative Coordinator and Scan body care products made with Come celebrate the Vegas Gold- general admission tickets starting at leyresorts.com or call the Star of Coordinator sustainable and ethically sourced en Knights with us! During the $55 and inquire about other prices. the Desert Arena Box Office at Sprouts offers competitive pay, ingredients. game, ticket holders can enjoy: 1/2 VIP starting at $75. 702.386.7867. Box office hours of team member discounts, a fun and For a list of stores by region or price appetizers; $2 20-oz. PBR; VIP tickets include one-hour operation are Tuesday to Friday 10 rewarding culture, and numerous to see other locations coming soon, and $5 Golden Knights special beer early entry at 7 p.m. and upgraded a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. career advancement opportunities. visit sprouts.com/stores. cocktail. glassware for sampling brews. to 8:30 p.m. Sprouts continues to accelerate * * * * * Come wearing your VGK gear More information about Hopped Be social! Keep up with Primm investments in team members, Mike Kermani is an entertain- and get in the spirit! Taco Throwdown is on Facebook Valley Casino Resorts events and including enhanced pay, benefits, ment writer for the Las Vegas * * * * * at https://www.facebook.com/Mot- news on Facebook at facebook. leadership development and rec- Tribune newspaper. He writes a leyBrews/, Twitter and Instagram com/primmvalley and Twitter @ ognition. weekly column in this newspaper. @MotleyBrews, or online at http:// PrimmValley. 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SIN CITY OPERA — OPERA ON THE EDGE Join our Forte Club for exclusive at the Starbright Theater for Mostly Mozart, A Celebration! June 25, 7 p.m. Our Forte Club Members get invited to two private concerts this season as well as other events, meet ‘n greets and the usual perks of membership! We will email you back and mail you your club card! Membership Benefits: Priority seating at our performances; Ac- ART LABOE PRESENTS cess to Free Forte Club Events; LATIN LEGENDS AT THE and Complimentary glass of wine/ STAR OF THE DESERT dessert at performances! ARENA IN PRIMM Sin City Opera Club Events: Tickets are on sale now for Art Mostly Mozart, June 25th, 2018 and Laboe Presents Latin Legends on Very Verdi, November 26th, 2018 Saturday, June 16, at the Star of * * * * * the Desert Arena in Primm. A radio HOPPED TACO personality for almost 70 years on THROWDOWN syndicated shows heard throughout CELEBRATES SACRED the American Southwest, Laboe is UNION OF CRAFT BEER known for his signature request and AND TACOS dedication format that prominently Hopped Taco Throwdown will features “Oldies But Goodies,” a Page 20 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / May 30-June 5, 2018 Wizard of Oz in Henderson

More information is available at calling 775-537-6553 ext. 2. Tick- www.slslasvegas.com. ets are limited. * * * * * Location: Mountain Falls Golf SUN AND FUN, Course; 5001 Clubhouse Drive, THE SUMMER HAS JUST Pahrump, NV 89061 BEGUN IN PAHRUMP The sun is shining and the fun has just begun in Pahrump. Enjoy fun-filled indoor and outdoor ac- tivities this summer in Pahrump. From Father’s Day BBQ’s to spec- tacular displays of fireworks and acoustic jam sessions, Pahrump has everything for everyone. Stay up to date with everything happen- By Jerry Fink her latest, 2016’s ‘Swing Street,’ ing in Pahrump by visiting, www. Las Vegas Tribune garnered airplay on top jazz, stan- visitpahrump.com. Fireworks Over Pahrump: The Henderson Symphony Or- dards and country radio stations, The Fourth of July is fast ap- chestra, led by Music Director emphasizing her prominent status proaching and what could be more Alexandra Arrieche performs the as a hit recording artist. fun than setting off your own musical soundtraxk to a screening As a celebrated author, Deana fireworks. Launch your own fire- of the Oscar-winning, all-time found herself on the New York works in a safe and supervised en- classic “The Wizard of Oz” at 8 pm. Times’ coveted Best Seller list vironment or enjoy the show at the On Friday, June 8 at the Henderson with her 2004 memoir, ‘Memories Pahrump Fireworks Launch Site. Pavillion, 200 S. Green Valley Are Made of This: Dean Martin All visitors who are interested in Parkway. Through His Daughter’s Eyes.’ Pahrump Valley Speedway: launching their own fireworks must Tickets are $18 plus tax and fees. In it, she shares never-before-told Race season is in full effect at obtain a special permit from one of * * * * * stories about her father and his ‘Pal- the Pahrump Valley Speedway. the five local fireworks stores. THE SHADE TREE lies’. The e-book version returned One of the only clay-based, high- Date(s): June 29 - July 4 ANNOUNCES POOLSIDE Ms. Martin to the best-selling book banked, quarter-mile dirt tracks Time: 7 p. m. to Midnight SOCIAL BENEFIT, ECLIPSE charts in 2015 on Wall Street Jour- remaining in the U.S., Pahrump Details: The site is first come June will bring an opportunity nal’s roster of best-selling e-books. Valley Speedway promises action first serve with a 30-minute time to do good while getting social * * * * * and thrills galore. Bring the family limit. Permits to launch fireworks with Eclipse, a poolside gathering are $5 per person and can be pur- to benefit The Shade Tree, a Las chased at Area 51, Phantom Fire- Vegas-based shelter for women, DEANA MARTIN TO BE works, Red Apple Fireworks, Black children and pets that are victims of TOASTED AT FRIAR’S CLUB Jack Fireworks and Extreme Pyro. domestic abuse and homelessness. Deana Martin, daughter of enter- Location: Pahrump Fireworks The event will be held at Red tainment legend Dean Martin, is set Launch Site; Located one mile Rock Casino Resort and Spa’s to be honored with the official title west on Gamebird Rd. right off of Crimson Nightclub from 6 to 9 p.m. of Trobairitz Highway 160 on Friday, June 8. by the Friar’s Club in New York Eclipse attendees will enjoy City. The prestigious title will be live entertainment, complimentary formally presented to Martin on signature cocktails, beer, wine and June 4 as part of “A Deana Martin (Left to right) Michael Lington, Paul Taylor and Kenny Lattimore hors d’oeuvres. Toast.” JAZZ ARTISTS MICHAEL for a day of racing and cheer on Tickets to the event start at Special guests Joe Mantegna, LINGTON, PAUL TAYLOR different classes of cars including $100 per person, with corporate Joe Piscopo, Tony Lo Bianco, Steve AND KENNY LATTIMORE Modifieds, Super Stocks, Dwarf cabana sponsorships available for Maglio, Mike Renzi, Sal Viviano, TO PERFORM AT THE Cars, Coupes, Bombers, Mod Min- purchase. Richard Barone, Joseph Baldasare, FOUNDRY AT SLS is, and more. The packages include a private Will Griedwald, Bill Boggs and LAS VEGAS Date: Saturday, June 9; Satur- cabana at Red Rock’s pool, 15 Mike Marino, among others, will Jazz artists Michael Lington, day, June 23 tickets, a bottle of sponsored vodka, host an evening of songs, stories Paul Taylor and Kenny Lattimore Time: 7 p.m. Dean West and special gift bags for cabana guests, and comedy, as the Friars celebrate will team up for a night of jazz at Details: Tickets can be pur- the Smokin Gun Band: branded recognition at the event Deana and her family legacy. The Foundry inside SLS Las Vegas chased at the speedway. General Get your dancing shoes out and and an opportunity to address the This coveted title has previ- at 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 2. adult tickets cost $10 and children get ready for a honkytonk good audience at the event. ously been awarded to several Fans will be treated to smooth between 6 to 14 years of age are time as the Hubb opens up its out- To learn more about purchasing other esteemed female entertainers, sounds by Lington, a critically-ac- $6. Children age 5 and under are door patio where you can enjoy live a corporate cabana, call James including Liza Minnelli, Barbra claimed saxophonist, producer and FREE. Family six packs are avail- music and ice cold drinks. Wallin at 702-531-4367. Streisand, Dionne Warwick and composer whose latest project, able for $30 (two adults and four Date: June 2 As the only 24-hour accessi- Kristin Chenoweth. “Second Nature,” pays homage to kids under 14). Time: 7 p. m. ble shelter designed specifically “I’m honored and delighted to his hometown of Copenhagen. The Location: Pahrump Valley Location: The Hubb; 3720 W to meet the needs of women and receive the title of Trobairitz from set list will be a compilation of both Speedway; 1881 Grieco Way, Bell Vista Ave, Pahrump, Nevada children in Southern Nevada, The the world-famous Friars Club,” new music and fan favorites, in- Pahrump, NV 89041 89060 Shade Tree works to provide a safe Martin explained. “I’m in great cluding “You and I” and “Midnight shelter for women and children and company … Barbra Streisand, Liza Drive,” both hits on Billboard’s their pets who are homeless, abused Minnelli, Dionne Warwick and Smooth Jazz Songs charts. or in crisis. Through the generosity Kristen Chenoweth. Apparently, Taylor, a popular saxophonist, of community partners and donors, they only give this award to women will also take the stage with his along with mobilizing the power under 5’6”.” contemporary, yet soulful approach of its volunteers, The Shade Tree The event will include a cocktail to urban jazz. The Las Vegas local has provided a safe haven to more reception at 6 p.m., followed by a has topped Billboard’s Smooth than 100,000 women and children 7 p.m. dinner prepared by Chef Sal Jazz Songs charts with hits like Father’s Day BBQ at since 1989. Scognamillo of Patsy’s Restaurant “Burnin’,” “Push to Start” and Mountain Falls Golf Course: To purchase tickets to Eclipse, in New York City, and the awards “Supernova,” and will perform Treat your dad to a day of golf, visit The Shade Tree’s Eventbrite program beginning at 8:30 p.m. an eclectic combination of tracks food, and fun at Mountain Falls page here. More information is For reservations please contact spanning his 11 albums. Golf Course. After a round of golf, Tatuados Acoustic Jam: available by calling 702-385-0072 Giuseppe Tarillo at (212) 751-7272. Lattimore, a Grammy-nominat- stop by the Mountain Falls Grill Get ready to party with some or on the website at www.thshade- For additional information on ed R&B singer, will bring a mixture Groom for a lunch on the patio of the most talented acoustic mu- tree.org. Deana Martin’s appearances and of melodies to the night of jazz. featuring charbroiled tri-tip sand- sicians in Nevada. Vince Neil’s About The Shade Tree: concert events, please visit Deana- Hailed by the New York Times as wich, baked beans and coleslaw or Tatuado Wild Side Tavern is sure The Shade Tree is Southern Martin.com. a “modern soul man,” he will sing macaroni salad. to set the mood right for a Saturday Nevada’s only 24-hour accessible About Deana Martin: a collection of tunes from his nine Date: Saturday, June 16 afternoon with its acoustic jam emergency shelter for women and Deana Martin has become an albums including his Billboard Hot Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p. m. session. children in crisis, providing over instantly recognizable voice and 100 hits, “For You” and “Never Details: Lunch at the Grill Date: June 2 100,000 nights of shelter, supplying figure in the pantheon of The Great Too Busy.” Room will be available from 11 Time: 3 p. m. to 7p.m. more than 165,000 meals every American Songbook in her own Tickets are on sale now and am to 3 pm and is priced at $12 Location: Vince Neil’s Tatuado year, and servicing over 5,000 right. 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Casale, including motorcycles that were impeccably restored like a 1960 Cushman Super Eagle, a 1953 Indian Chief and a 1965 Harley-Davidson FLH Electra Glide; the Tim Walker Collection, an assemblage that consists of Ital- ian, French, English and American bikes; a dozen racing bikes from collector Bob Weaver; and, 10 mo- torcycles from the John McNulty Collection, nine of which will be offered without reserves. Bidder registration for the auc- tion is available online in advance for $100 — or $200 at the auction — and includes admission for two to each auction day. General admission tickets are available in advance online at Mecum.com for $20, and for $30 at the door and online after May 31. Children 12 years of age and younger receive complimentary admission. Doors open daily at 8 a.m. with the auction beginning at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 1 and Saturday, June 2. Portions of the event will be broadcast on NBC Sports Network on Sunday, June 3 from 1 to7 p.m. A livestream of the entire auction will be presented at Mecum.com. Mecum’s website is updated Luke Brown and Jake Long celebrate their $120,000 cash prize at the 2017 BFI. (Photo by Olie’s Images) daily with the latest consignments, The 41st Annual edition of the ervations with special roper rates foot-tall cake, crafted by Bellagio’s Vegas Vintage Motorcycle Auction including detailed descriptions and world’s richest professional team starting at $54 are available at the pastry team, was rolled out for the last June, which achieved $4.4 photographs of the motorcycles. To roping — the Bob Feist Invitational Silver Legacy Resort, the Eldorado, celebration flanked by gold-paint- million in sales with an 80-percent view the list, consign a motorcycle in Reno, Nevada — is just a few and Circus Circus with rate code ed models holding green and gold sell-through rate, Mecum will again or register as a bidder, visit Mecum. weeks away (June 18-21) and the BFI18. sparklers. The towering creation return to the South Point Hotel, com, or call (262) 275-5050 for roster is set. About BFI Week: was designed to resemble a bank Casino & Spa Friday, June 1 and more information. The BFI itself kicks things off on The Bob Feist Invitational vault, paying tribute to the single’s Saturday, June 2 with an estimated About Mecum Auctions Monday, as always, showcasing the team roping has been owned and music video, with edible gold bars, 600 vintage and collectible motor- Nobody sells more than Mecum. world’s best 100 professional teams produced by Phoenix-based Ull- a massive chocolate $100 bill and cycles on offer. Nobody. The Mecum Auction competing over six rounds for more man-Peterson Events since 2012. a “Dinero”-emblazoned cheese- The event will kick off with a Company is the world leader of than $800,000 in cash and prizes. The same company purchased cake all glittering under Lopez’s Legends of Racing Preview Party collector car, vintage and antique Standing alone as the richest Open the Reno Rodeo Invitational team personal logo. on Thursday, May 31 at 4 p.m. motorcycle, and Road Art® sales, roping in the country, the BFI will ropings in 2016, rebranding the Spago’s dining room was dec- hosted by Don Emde and featuring hosting auctions throughout the be broadcast live on WranglerNet- package as BFI Week in 2017. orated in glistening gold accents Brad Lackey, Eddie Lawson, Ken- United States. The company has work.com and is annually held in Founded by notable rodeo announc- and the bigger-than-life set designs ny Roberts and Bubba Shobert. The specialized in the sale of collector conjunction with the Reno Rodeo. er and publisher Bob Feist in 1977, used in Lopez’s Billboard Music auction will start Friday morning cars for 31 years, now offering This year’s roping will again the BFI is the richest team roping Awards performance, including at 10 a.m., and the current lineup more than 20,000 lots per year feature two BFI cowboys who’ve event for professionals and one of stacks of gold bricks and a gilded is chock-full of desirable collector and averaging more than one auc- entered all 41 editions of the pres- the most prestigious, due to its 100- lion. Portraits of Lopez, Khaled and motorcycles. tion each month. Established by tigious BFI — Dennis Watkins and team limit and 18-foot head-start Cardi B from the music video lined Nearly 100 bikes from The Jim President Dana Mecum in 1988, Mike Beers. Watkins will heel this for steers. Founded by Perry Di the walls. Lattin Collection will be among the Mecum Auctions remains a fami- year for Caden Clay, while Beers Loreto in 1996, the high-stakes #11 The party came to a festive finish auction’s featured attractions. The ly-run company headquartered in hopes for a six-figure payday with and all-female roping events are the with a high-energy dance party in collection represents more than 100 Walworth, Wisconsin. For further Jace Johnson. Honorable mentions, most lucrative one-day events of Spago’s main dining room. Rapper years of two-wheelers from a turn- information, visit Mecum.com or of course, go to Walt Woodard their kind for amateur ropers. T.I. joined Lopez on the dance floor of-the-century De Dion-Bouton, a call (262) 275-5050. Follow along heeling for Matt Sherwood at his * * * * * as his hit track “What You Know” 1905 Iver Johnson and a 1916 Shaw with Mecum’s social media news 40th BFI, and Clay Cooper who Jennifer Lopez and thumped through the speakers. Motor Bike, to present-day exam- and join us on Facebook, Twitter, will back in for Spencer Mitchell Wolfgang Puck shine at Guests enjoyed a preview of ples from Ducati, Harley-Davidson, YouTube, Pinterest and Instagram. at his 39th. Spago after party following Spago’s new dishes by Wolfgang Honda, Yamaha and more. About South Point As always, a handful of young Billboard Music Awards including Prime Beef Sliders with The Best of Show Collection Hotel, Casino & Spa guns will try their luck for the first Jennifer Lopez, fresh off her smoked onion marmalade, Pan- comprises 21 no-reserve consign- Featuring more than 2,100 gues- time in Reno. Those include Kellan Billboard Music Awards perfor- Seared Black Bass, Spiked Citrus ments with nearly all restored trooms, South Point Hotel, Casino Johnson heading for his world- mance in Las Vegas, joined Wolf- Lollipops with yuzu cream and by master motorcycle craftsmen & Spa overlooks the famous Las champ dad, Jhett, and Tanner Green gang Puck to celebrate the release lemon caviar and, of course, the including Don Harrell, Martin Vegas Strip and the serenity of the joining his uncle Daniel at the BFI of her new single, “Dinero,” at a chef’s signature wood-oven pizzas. Schalkwijk, Jim Hiddleston, Rod surrounding mountainscape. Each as he heads for Forrest Fisher. The private party held during a first-look Among the notable celebrities Wheeler, Lars Petersen, Dale Mat- oversized guest room features roster also boasts some exciting at the new Spago, opening soon at who joined Lopez for the bash were teson and Jim Kilau — all noted to state-of-the-art LED televisions as new matchups, including Jake Bellagio. Salt-N-Pepa, French Montana, Ash- be among the best in the world in well as WiFi with high-speed in- Barnes heading for Rich Skelton Friends, family and fans joined lee Simspon, Normani and others. their respective fields of expertise. ternet connections. Guests visiting (that’s 15 collective gold buckles), the international music icon to toast * * * * * Among the Best of Show Col- South Point Hotel will experience Derrick Begay for Jade Corkill, her electric performance earlier in lection are selections from BSA, affordable luxury through a casino and Aaron Tsinigine for Trey Yates. the evening. The crowd looked on Matchless, Norton and others with offering top-of-the-line gaming On June 19, the world’s best from Spago’s outdoor patio over- Triumphs ruling the roost; his technology, more than 60 table amateur ropers will compete in looking the legendary Bellagio Bonneville T120s span from 1966 games and a separate race and the #11 Reno Million Invitation- Fountains as they danced to “Dine- Mecum Motorcycle Auction through 1969, and three of them sports book area, 11 restaurants, al, which last year saw Arizona ro” while the new hit’s collaborator returns to South Point Hotel, carry the “R” racing designation including the award-winning Mi- husband-wife duo Peg and Jim DJ Khaled showered the crowd June 1 and 2 Other collections consigned to chael’s Gourmet Room, world-class Williams come from the seventh with J Lo-branded $100 bills. Following the success of the Mecum’s Las Vegas June motorcy- Costa Del Sur Spa and Salon, a 400- call-back position to win $200,000 As the song played, a seven- inaugural summer Mecum Las cle auction encompass bikes from seat showroom featuring headliner cash plus a trailer-load of prizes. entertainment, a 700-seat Bingo This year, the champs will need to room, a 16-screen Cinemark movie find space to take home new Polaris complex, a state-of-the-art 64-lane Rangers, as well. bowling center, a 52,000-square Following the sophomore edition foot Conference Center and an of the #12 High Desert Showdown 80,000-square foot Exhibit Hall. on Wednesday will be the inaugural South Point Hotel is also home to Hooey BFI Junior Championships. the Tournament Bowling Plaza, a The ropings for the under-17 crowd multi-million dollar professional filled up early, and should pay the bowling tournament facility. In champs $15,000, plus the legendary addition, South Point Hotel has BFI prizeline. Kids from across the the finest equestrian event facility country are warming up for the #10, in the country. The 240,000 square and in the Jr. Open, fans will want feet of event space features three a great seat to see the teenagers go climate-controlled arenas, vet at it — including the team of Britt clinic, feed store, more than 1,200 Smith of Oklahoma and Carson climate-controlled stalls and plays Johnson of Wyoming host to some of the country’s most Wrangler BFI Week will also unique events. South Point Hotel, again host the world’s richest all- Casino & Spa is at 9777 Las Vegas girl team roping the following day Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV 89183. (it paid the 2017 winners $41,000) “Official Hotel and Casino of — including a high-stakes break- Las Vegas Motor Speedway” and away jackpot in its second year, sponsor of the September 2018 Las with a bevy of prizes and Charlie 1 Vegas NASCAR Monster Energy Horse sponsorship. cup race, South Point 400. In addi- The week’s total event lineup tion, South Point’s Sports Book is includes the BFI (June 18), the #12 home of Vegas Stats & Information High Desert Showdown and Hooey Network” (VSiN), where you can BFI Junior Championships (June listen to the broadcast on SiriusXM 20), and the Charlie 1 Horse All- 204 and watch the video livestream Girl Challenge (June 21). Including on VSiN.com. the Reno Rodeo and payoffs at the For more information or for week’s additional amateur WSTR room reservations, call (702) 796- competitions off-site, the collective 7111 or visit the South Point Hotel, athlete purse during Wrangler BFI Casino & Spa website. Connect Week nears $3.6 million. with South Point on Facebook, For more information, visit Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. www.BFIWeek.com. Hotel res- * * * * * May 30-June 5, 2018 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / Page 23 Leadership in a word: Rest By Doug Dickerson the value and importance of rest? “Rest and be thankful.” Have you? — William Wordsworth As you take into consideration A word about rest all of the demands of your time Rest — it’s a sometimes elusive perhaps it is also time to take into concept for many leaders. Intuitive- consideration why rest is such an ly, we know it to be important, but important element of your leader- making the time for it is not easy. ship. Here are a few reasons worth The demands on our time tend to your consideration. overwhelm the best of us. Be it Rest gives you time the obligations from work, home, to recharge children, etc. it’s a cycle that no one There’s nothing scientific here is immune from. Sound familiar? that needs to be explained. You An article in Entrepreneur mag- simply must remember that you are azine highlighted the fact that many not invincible and that your mind, employees are less productive body, and spirit needs time to re- due to a lack of sleep. It reported charge. Give yourself permission to your body but to refresh your mind “Your calm mind is the ultimate ”that 58 percent of 32,000 workers DoUg DICkErsoN recharge — and be sure to promote and thinking. A refreshed mind can weapon against your challenges. So surveyed said they weren’t getting thinking about work kept them up it among your team. help you see the things going on in relax.” — Bryant McGill enough sleep, and 61 percent said at night.” Rest gives you time your life through a fresh lens. A final word that sleep deprivation affected their As leaders, we know the value to refresh Rest gives you time The buzzwords in most leader- work. For some, it’s a vicious cycle: and importance of work. But in the A change of pace or location can to reflect ship circles revolve around produc- 44 percent of workers said that just process could it be that we have lost give you time to not only refresh Every leader needs to take the tivity and maximizing the day — time to reflect on where he or she is, getting the most out of it. Afterall, BEHIND THE MIKE evaluate how things are going, and as leaders, it’s what we do what what adjustments might need to be we pride ourselves on. But along made. A tired mind and body can’t the way, don’t lose sight of the fact The Silver Spoon Club properly do this. Make sure you set that you need rest in order to make aside time to rest in order to reflect. it happen. Rest for the sake of your By Michael A. Aun “Mama Alice” had an eleventh Your leadership will benefit greatly leadership and the productivity When you have clocked as many grade education… but in those from this time. you desire. decades as I have one reflects on days that’s as high as it went. There Rest quotes Note: Leadership In A Word is their epitaph. For years, I have ad- was no senior class. She was a “There is virtue in work and my writing theme for 2018. Each vised insurance clients of mine to homemaker and mother who was there is virtue in rest. Use both and week the focus will be on a word write their own eulogy. What would pregnant most of my life. overlook neither.” — Alan Cohen that impacts you as a leader. My you have them say about you? Our dad “Michael A” was an “Each person deserves a day in style is new but my message and I suspect the majority of us mere artist by trade. He would attend which no problems are confronted, commitment to delivering fresh mortals have never given any kind movies, watch and sketch a scene no solutions are searched for. Each leadership insight to you are the of thought to what our legacy might and then paint the marquee on the of us needs to withdraw from the same. It’s my sincere desire to be. We do not all start with the same exterior of the building. When the cares which will not withdraw from help you grow as a leader and to advantages in life. I have no idea offset press was invented in the us.” — Maya Angelou partner with you in reaching your what a silver spoon club is but I just forties, he lost 29 contracts he had “Whenever you find yourself on full potential. sure our family was not a member. with theaters all over Paterson, NJ. the side of the majority, it is time to Doug Dickerson is a syndicated In the tiny town of Lexington, Uncle Sam grabbed him and pause and reflect.” —Mark Twain columnist. He writes a weekly col- SC where I was born and raised, shipped him off to Africa to serve “All that is important comes in umn for this newspaper. To contact we never knew anyone who was as General Ike Eisenhower’s Arabic quietness and waiting.” — Patrick Doug Dickerson, email him at MICHAEL A. AUN part of that exclusive club. We interpreter. He earned multiple Pur- Lindsay ddickerson@ lasvegastribune.com. were poor folks who lived in a poor Fred, George and John all ple Hearts and a Silver Star during community. I have often written… worked the restaurant business his tenure in the US Army before “We were poor but we did not know over the years. John continues returning to South Carolina to build it… though there were times when with his own very successful Eggs a construction business and a fam- we suspected it!” Up franchise located in Lexington ily of 11 children. I helped him in Our parents would never let where we grew up. that business up until his retirement. us think that way. It turns out that Theresa and Frances did a tour My mother lost her first three what they never taught us was the of duty with CNN and continue to children to diseases that could greatest lesson we ever learned. work in the media business today, easily be addressed today but then We learned simple truths… there working with the likes of George she and my dad had 11 in a row. He is always another way to get there. Takei and Anderson Cooper. was later quoted as saying “When Never allow yourself to be a victim. Baby brother Andy is the barris- we found out what was causing it, They taught us that there is ter among us with several law offic- we put a stop to it.” honor in all kinds of work. We have es across the state of South Caroli- There, in a nutshell, was what family members who were laborers na. Sister Lorraine has worked for our silver spoon club looked like. right up to attorneys. Some were the University of South Carolina Michael Aun is a syndicated in the media business with CNN. while little sister Jeannine is in columnist and writes a weekly col- Another was a practicing family banking. umn for this newspaper. To contact counselor. None of us were born with any- Michael Aun, email him at maun@ Three owned or operated restau- thing special in our background. lasvegastribune.com. rants. All of us worked in Aun’s Feed Stable over the years. The restaurant business is the hardest kind of business you could imag- ine. All my siblings have had their Tune in to individual talents that made them unique. I never started out to be a speak- er or an author. I opened my own RadioTribune real estate business and insurance practice… mainly because no one would hire me. 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As for official data from the So- cial Security Administration (SSA), 62 percent of today’s retirees lean on the program to supply at least half of their monthly income, while some 34 percent of retired workers effectively depend on Social Secu- rity for all (90 percent-100 percent) of their income. We can safely say that without this guaranteed payout, the elderly poverty rate would be considerably higher than it is now. What’s also interesting about Social Security’s average retired worker benefit is that, at least on a nominal basis, it’s not that big. According to the SSA’s monthly snapshot from April 2018, the average retired worker received $1,411.07 a month, or $16,933 a year. Even though it might not seem like a lot, this is above the federal poverty level of $12,140 in 2018, and it demonstrates the importance the retirement benefit has played in helping lay a financial foundation for our nation’s retirees. benefit at full retirement age. Essen- place to retire where cost-of-living As for the anomaly that is Alas- about when you’re born — your These states have the lowest tially, the more you make per year, standards are low. In other words, ka, its inclusion might be best birth year determines your full re- average Social Security up to the maximum taxable earn- San Francisco and New York City explained by the fact that it’s the tirement age, which is when you’re retirement benefits ings cap, the more you’ll be paid probably aren’t reasonable retire- only U.S. state that has no sales able to receive 100 percent of your However, if we were to examine by Social Security when you retire. ment destinations. or income tax. That might be just retirement benefit — you certain- the average Social Security retire- According to 2015 median With the exception of Alaska, enough of a lure to attract lower-in- ly have control over your wage ment benefit on a state-by-state household income data from the the other nine states listed above come retirees. income, the years you work, and basis, we’d see quite the variance. U.S. Census Bureau, Louisiana, have a Regional Price Parity Index Looking at the when you file for benefits. Adjust- Earlier this month, we examined New Mexico, Kentucky, Arkan- reading of less than 100, as of big picture ing these variables can have a big those states paying the most to sas, and Mississippi were five of 2015, according to the U.S. Bu- However, current and future impact on what the program pays retired workers, and noted that the the bottom seven states in median reau of Economic Analysis. With retirees should understand that this you when you retire. All things be- average New Jersey retiree, who’s household income. If people are regional price parity equating to list doesn’t define what they’re ing equal — earnings, work history, collecting an average of $1,553.63 earning less per year than the na- 100, it means these states tends to capable of. For instance, if you live and birth year — a person claiming a month, nets $1,711 extra per year tional average, it would only make be a few percentage points, to a in Louisiana, you aren’t doomed benefits at age 70 can net up to a 76 over the national average. sense that their Social Security pay- double-digit percentage, cheaper to receive $100 a month less than percent higher monthly payout than Today, we’re going to take a outs are lower during retirement. than the national average. In other the national average when you someone claiming retirement ben- look at the 10 states with the lowest Cost of living may also be words, retirees are able to make claim Social Security. Everything efits as early as possible at age 62. average Social Security retirement playing a critical role. If a retired their Social Security dollars stretch is based on your income and work Ultimately, averages are just benefit, based on data released by worker has earned less than the farther in these states, so this could history, your birth year, and your that... averages. It’s what you make the SSA in April 2018. national average over their lifetime, be why so many lower lifetime-in- claiming age. of your own work and earnings Louisiana: $1,311.72 it may make sense to seek out a come workers flock to them. Though you can’t do anything history that matters. Maine: $1,314.22 Advanced Air System– Mississippi: $1,319.06 Introducing New Mexico: $1,323.16 NORTH AMERICA’S Montana: $1,331.30 Arkansas: $1,333.93 MicroSoothe! South Dakota: $1,336.28 Kentucky: $1,340.30 # Alaska: $1,343.39 North Dakota: $1,344.48 In total, the average retired Walk-In Tub worker in 28 out of 50 U.S. states 1 Selling is receiving less than the national average retirement benefit, as of April 2018. In Louisiana, the aver- age retiree is taking home around $2,900 a year less than the average retired worker in New Jersey. Like- wise, Louisiana’s retired workers are netting Social Security income that’s about $100 a month below the N THE U.S E I .A D . national average, or about $1,200 A a year. M Why these states are lagging WIT IDE As was the case with for the H PR states with the highest average Financing available benefit, the biggest differentiating with approved credit factor for the states with the low- est average retirement benefit is earnings. Though there are more than a half-dozen factors that can ultimately impact your Social Secu- rity take-home, your wage income is a major component. 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Social Security works for the families of our fallen heroes By Nancy Altman Imagine a 30-year-old Army ser- some who were very young (or still through Social Security, are taking centage of lost wages are replaced. The Hill contributor geant earning around $35,000 with in utero) that day are still receiving on that responsibility. Memorial Day reminds us of Memorial Day is a time to reflect two young children and a spouse benefits today. That benefit should be restored the importance of family and the on the sacrifice of our fallen heroes at home caring for the children. If Social Security’s benefits are for all children, including those of fragility of life. It is a moment to and their families. It is a time to feel the sergeant is killed, that family’s crucially important for millions of our nation’s soldiers, who are re- reflect on those who have given our appreciation for their service. Social Security life insurance pro- American families. Those benefits ceiving benefits as the result of the their lives in service to the rest of Every day, our Social Security tection would provide the children should be expanded. Prior to 1981, death or disability of a parent. At a us. We should remember their Gold system allows us, together, to honor and their widowed parent monthly children who received Social Secu- time when college is more expen- Star families, as well. And as we re- their sacrifice with action. benefits worth more than $674,000 rity were eligible for benefits until sive than ever, restoring that benefit member, we should resolve to fight Our Social Security contribu- over the course of their lifetimes. age 22, if they chose to enroll in is the least we can do for children for increased economic security for tions provide some measure of If the sergeant is not killed, but college, university, or vocational who have faced the adversity of them — and us — by increasing economic security to millions of permanently disabled, the family training after high school. This is growing up without a parent who Social Security’s modest benefits. families that have lost loved ones, would receive Social Security dis- only right. After all, parents gen- can support them. Modest, but reliable and essential including the nation’s Gold Star ability benefits with a present value erally support their children in ob- More broadly, Social Security’s in our insecure world. families. Although most people of more than $703,000. taining post-secondary education, vital but modest benefits should * * * * * associate Social Security with re- Military families where both if they are able. When the parent is be increased for both current and Nancy Altman is president of tirement, one out of three beneficia- spouses serve are becoming in- no longer earning a wage, all of us, future beneficiaries, so a larger per- Social Security Works. ries receive disability or survivors’ creasingly common. There are cur- benefits. rently over 100,000 dual-military The children of fallen soldiers couples, and the number is grow- receive monthly Social Security ing. That puts children at double benefits until their 18th birthdays, risk. Social Security is the largest source of income for grandparents or 19th, if still in high school. Their Saving a person I live widows or widowers also receive raising or helping to raise their grandchildren. In total, 9 percent of from a potential catastrophe* monthly Social Security benefits until the youngest child turns 16. all American children under the age every 10 minutes! of 18 are direct or indirect Social Disabled servicemen and wom- Security beneficiaries. en, as well as their families, also Prior to the enactment of Social receive monthly Social Security Security, many families were forced benefits. to separate, divided from one anoth- alonealone Every payday, our Social Securi- er after the kind of tragedy they just ty contributions are deposited in the endured. Surviving parents, unable but I’m never alone. Old Age, Survivors, and Disability to support their families, were often ® Trust Funds of Social Security. Out I have Life Alert forced to have relatives take in their . of those funds, monthly benefits are children or worse, send them to paid to 2 million children who have orphanages. Social Security helps lost parents. Every month, Social families stay together. Security benefits are paid to 4 mil- Today, Social Security lifts over AS SEEN ON lion men and women who have lost a million children out of poverty TV spouses. Monthly Social Security and lessens the depth of poverty for benefits also go to more than a millions more. For many bereaved million and a half children whose families, Social Security is the dif- parents have become disabled. ference between some measure of Service in a war zone drasti- independence and the dependence Fall Emergency Home Invasion Fire Emergency cally increases the risk of death or suffered by those who find them- disability. More than 2.3 million selves caught in abject poverty. 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Family and friends gather at a Know backyard barbecue and pool party By Dr Nina Radcliff where adults assume everyone is watching the kids, but no one is really watching. —Designate a “water watcher.” Kick-off of Summer: This person should not be reading or texting. They should never take their eyes off the children. Adults Important Tips for a should take turns and have a desig- nated person watching at all times. —Never jump into anything you Healthy, Safe Summer cannot see. Hitting a submerged By Dr. Nina Radcliff, MD car crashes and 16 percent of fatal rock or shallow bottom can cause It’s that time of year — as Me- accidents every year. tragedy, including paralysis or morial Day kicks off the unofficial —Don’t drink and drive. If you drowning after becoming uncon- garage, breezeway, carport; under can tuck into your socks; and use start of summer. It is a special time choose to enjoy an alcoholic drink, scious. overhanging branches; or near other 20-30 percent DEET (repellent) on as people gather outside; the school designating a driver who is not —Use designated swimming surfaces that can catch fire. clothing and exposed skin. year ends; more travel getaways are drinking should be as automatic as and recreational areas whenever —Keep your grill clean. Un- —After returning from outdoor planned; and folks flock to enjoy buckling our seat belts. Every year, possible. Professionals have as- controlled fires can occur from hiking or even routine backyard trails, parks, pools and ponds. As there are over 10,000 completely sessed the area, and there are usu- grease on the grill or blockages in excursions, conduct a full-body a nation, we step out into our great preventable, unnecessary, and ally signs posted regarding hazards tubes that lead to the burner from tick check. If you have been bit outdoors welcoming summer fun. tragic deaths due to drunk driving. and lifeguard schedules. insects or grease. Also, check and by a tick, don’t panic — it takes With summer at our doorstep, Water Safety: —And for parents who don’t replace connectors that can lead to between 36-48 hours to transmit the public health officials have turned This should be observed in ALL know how to swim themselves, it’s a gas leak. bacteria. Remove the tick promptly up the volume this month issu- bodies of water from small blow- never too late to learn this life-sav- —Never leave a lit grill unat- with tweezers and seek medical ing new warnings, urging people up pools to spas, to Olympic-sized ing skill tended. treatment if you observe symptoms to plan ahead to limit increased pools, to lakes, ponds, rivers and Food safety: Sun Safety: (e.g., bull’s eye rash, fatigue). threats from ticks, mosquitoes and oceans. A report just issued in the Memorial Day barbecues and The sun’s ultraviolet rays can —Also, in traveling to the drownings. past few days shows: For younger get-togethers are a tradition for damage your skin in as little as 15 Northeast and Great Lakes area, Insect-borne diseases have tri- children ages 1-4, the majority of millions across the nation. But be minutes! Sun damage is responsi- there has been an increase of pled in the United States over the drownings (57 percent) occur in aware that improperly cooked or ble for premature skin aging, and the tick-borne illness, Powassan. past 14 years during which time pools, while for children aged 15 stored foods can make us sick to increases your risk for skin cancer. Severe Powassan often needs hos- our nation has encountered at least -19, the risk of drowning in an our stomachs. Research shows getting sunburnt, pitalization to receive respiratory nine new insect-borne germs, such ocean, lake or another open water —Cook meat products thor- just once every two years, can triple support, intravenous fluids or med- as chikungunya and Zika virus, body is far greater (73 percent). oughly your risk of melanoma skin cancer! ications to reduce swelling in the according to the Center for Disease —Know how to swim and judge —Wash your hands with soap Stay protected!! brain. There’s currently no specific Control and Prevention (CDC) your swimming skill ability (skills and water before handling food and —Use barriers — sunglasses, treatment for the disease. report released this month. vary in currents versus the still after touching raw meat wide brim hats, protective clothing —Prevention in protecting your- Unfortunately too, the risk of water of pools) —Use separate utensils, dishes, —Apply broad-spectrum sun- self is vital drowning rises with warmer weath- —Swimming and playing in and cutting boards for raw/un- screen with an SPF of 30 or greater Being prepared and taking pre- er. Drowning is the third leading water is fun and great exercise, but cooked meats to avoid cross-con- and reapply every two hours or ventative actions is the best way to cause of unintentional injury-relat- families need to pay close attention tamination of bacteria immediately after swimming or enjoy a great, safe summer. ed death in the United States. As to swimming safety — especially in —Refrigerate perishable foods excessive sweating * * * * * well, overall injuries spike with in- any open body of water. Along with within two hours and keep products Ticks & Mosquitos: This article is for general in- creased outdoor summer activities. decreased visibility, open bodies with mayonnaise (salads, coleslaw) Have a plan to optimize protec- formation only and should not be The message is not to stay in- of water can have unpredictable out of the sun. They should not be tion against mosquitoes and ticks used for the diagnosis or treatment doors or out of water, but along and strong currents, and sudden in the sun for longer than 15 min- and reduce the risk of diseases they of medical conditions and cannot with learning the lifesaving skill of drop-offs. And even experienced utes total. transmit. substitute for the advice from your swimming, there are key preventa- swimmers may struggle in the cold- Grill safety: —Apply lotion, liquid, or spray medical professional. Dr. Nina has tive steps for vigilant watch — as er water of lakes and rivers. Are you aware that outdoor repellent to exposed skin used all reasonable care in com- well as supervision of loved ones —Always use the buddy system grilling is responsible for an aver- —When possible avoid bushy piling the current information but — in recognizing and managing the when swimming; even at a public age of 8,900 home fires every year, or wooded areas with high grass it may not apply to you and your risks associated with summertime pool or beach where there is a according to The National Fire and leaf litter. If you cannot, make symptoms. Always consult a doctor doings. Here are some important lifeguard. 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