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Lawsuit Being Prepped to Block Nevada's Mail-In Primary Election Sisolak can’t have it both Trump will ask Harvard, Senate passes $484 ways: Shut it all down big businesses to return billion coronavirus or open it all up coronavirus relief funds relief package PAGE 2 PAGE 4 PAGE 6 Volume 22, Issue 9 April 22-28, 2020 Las Vegas lasvegastribune.com “ITRIBUNE may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” — Voltaire Lawsuit being prepped to block Nevada’s mail-in primary election By Chuck Muth their destination is huge. Democrats all across the nation “Absentee ballots remain the are trying to use the Wuhan Virus largest source of potential voter crisis to change in-person elections fraud,” concluded the bipartisan to all-mail balloting — including 2005 report of the Commission on here in Nevada. Federal Election Reform, chaired This ain’t good for a lot of rea- by former Democrat President sons, not the least of which is this Jimmy Carter. from Timothy Sandefur, Vice Presi- Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, dent for Litigation at the Goldwater of next-door-neighbor Arizona, Institute… this week slammed the door on “If the history of democracy moving his August primary to an teaches us anything, it is that all-mail election, declaring: “We’re suddenly changing the rules of an not going to disenfranchise anyone election in the midst of a crisis - from voting (in person) on Election especially by the decree of a single Day.” official - is a terrible idea. Ducey noted that voters have the “Emergencies are times when OPTION of requesting a mail-in people are least likely to dispas- whole purpose of constitutional the moment. Breaking those rules In addition, the potential for ballot if they so choose for whatev- sionately weigh the long-term costs rules is to keep people from mak- can inflict permanent damage on fraud and voter disenfranchisement er reason, including worries about of benefits of their actions, and the ing bad decisions in the heat of democratic government.” due to mailed ballots not reaching (See Mail-In Ballots, Page 4) My Point Republicans take lead on of View By Rolando Larraz This coronavirus is making me a plan to reopen Nevada a different person; it has now been Special to Las Vegas Tribune leaders to step up and protect their two weeks that I have not rambled With Governor Sisolak missing livelihoods. on about anyone; this week, how- in action, Nevada Republicans are Yet Governor Sisolak continues ever I would like to cheer up my leading the way on coming up with to be missing in action. friend Joseph Barnett who last week a plan for how to reopen Nevada. That’s why the Nevada Repub- celebrated his 30-year anniversary. Yesterday, the Assembly Re- lican Party launched ads in the Las How can you be thirty years old publicans released their framework Vegas Review-Journal and Reno when you look older than me? And for how we can get people safely Gazette Journal to force Governor what is the big deal about turning back to work while safeguarding Sisolak to finally come up with a thirty? I asked my friend Joe. the health and safety of Nevadans. plan for how we can get Nevada And that’s the best part of turn- The human toll this virus has reopened for business ing thirty. Joe Barnett celebrated taken on families’ financial well-be- Sisolak’s lack of preparation for thirty years SOBER and that, in my ing has been breathtaking, and Nevada’s future stands in stark con- humble opinion, is a good reason Nevadans are looking to its local (See GOP Nevada Plan, Page 6) to celebrate. Congratulations, Joe! Maybe because I was never a fan of drinking and normally steer Confusion reigns as IRS starts away from people while they are drinking, I always like to point out people like Joe who can be sober for so long. issuing coronavirus payments Not too many people know how By Naomi Jagoda “People are losing their jobs, they’re frus- to drink; they either turn into fight- The Hill trated, they’re scared,” said Chuck Marr, senior ers or believe they are comedians The rollout of coronavirus relief payments director of federal tax policy at the left-leaning with the most stupid jokes that only has been clouded by confusion for the millions Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in they believe are funny. of Americans struggling to understand why they Washington. Once some law enforcement haven’t received their money. But experts also said they have been im- officers (you can tell I am in a The IRS last week sent out more than 80 pressed by how quickly the IRS started disburs- good mood this week to call those million payments to people via direct deposit. ing payments, even with a number of challenges particular officers by a respectful But tens of millions more are still waiting for including budget cuts over the past decade, name even if they don’t deserve their funds, and they have questions. antiquated technology and many IRS employees it) wanted me to write (‘create’) a Tax policy experts said it’s understandable needing to work remotely during the pandemic. story about some casino big wheels for those people to be upset. (See COVID-19 Payments, Page 8) because they wanted to ‘crucify’ the two men. “We want you to say something Former Nevada Senator free from bad about these two men,” they told me when they visited my office a long time ago. Then, here comes prison thanks to the Coronavirus the best part, when I told them that By Rolando Larraz Former Nevada State Senate Last week the same federal I did not know them, that they were Las Vegas Tribune Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson judge, Jim Mahan, that sentenced way out of my league, they pulled The usual, those with name was sentenced last year to more Atkinson in March of 2019 to out a picture of those two casino big recognition, money, political power than two years in federal prison twenty-seven months in a federal wheels embracing me and they told and connections always get to the for misusing at least $249,900 of prison, today opened the doors of me that they didn’t care if I lie or courtroom with illnesses they never campaign donor money on personal that federal prison to release him not, they wanted to ‘nail those two.’ had before, or in a wheelchair. expenses including opening a Las because he supposedly has an ill- I explained to them that the only Disgraced political Nevada Vegas nightclub, announced United ness that puts him in greater danger reason I was there was because I public figure Kelvin Atkinson who, States Attorney Nicholas A. Tru- from the coronavirus. was the best man in a wedding party back in 2019, was sentenced to tanich for the District of Nevada, Other inmates and people out- but maybe because they had flown twenty-seven months in a federal Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. side American penitentiaries may me to the East Coast to be the best penitentiary walked out of prison Rouse of the FBI Las Vegas Office, suffer the same illness as Atkinson, man in their wedding, they thought last week after Federal Judge James and Acting Special Agent in Charge but have less political clout and will I might be a very important person, Mahan allowed him to be released Ismael Nevarez Jr. for the IRS not be able to go home to be “treat- but that was not the case. The bride due to the coronavirus pandemic. Criminal Investigation. (See Kelvin Atkinson, Page 5) was a good and close friend at the time and that was the reason I was there. Later, I paid the consequenc- Trump to suspend issuing green cards for 60 days es dearly for refusing to not go By Brett Samuels competition overseas. He indicated Further details about the order along with their request, but that is and Rafael Bernal during a White House briefing that were not immediately available. a story for another weekly column The Hill there would be certain exemptions, The most common type of green with names and all. President Trump on Tuesday but did not elaborate. card applications are family-based Why don’t I drink? Not because announced details of his executive “It would be wrong and unjust immigration sponsorships for per- I am some kind of saint, but because order to suspend immigration amid for Americans laid off by the virus manent residency of foreign nation- I used to know someone — a very the coronavirus pandemic, saying to be replaced with new immigrant als by their U.S. spouses. important person in my life — who the measure would initially last for labor flown in from abroad,” Trump Foreign nationals seeking to liked to drink… a lot. Never in 60 days and apply to those seeking said at the briefing. “We must first enter the United States were already public though and never made a permanent residence. take care of the American worker.” unable to do so amid the pandemic, fool out of herself. Trump portrayed the action, Trump said the administration as consulates been closed for most My friend drank and when she which he first previewed in a tweet would stop issuing certain green visa interviews since last month. thought she had enough she turned late Monday night, as an effort to cards for 60 days, a move that is Trump did not specify whether (See My Point of View, Page 2) protect American workers from certain to attract fiery opposition.
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