TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES

• CANDID CANDIDATE: An e-Interview with Todd “Taxpayer” Bailey (Nevada News Bureau) – Todd “Taxpayer” Bailey is a candidate for Nevada Senate District 4 and did an e-interview with Nevada News Bureau’s publisher, Chuck Muth this week.

• Conservatives Don’t Need a Litmus Test for RINOs (Richard Viguerie) – In an interview with the Baltimore Sun this week, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele publicly rejected the candidate “litmus test” proposed by a group of national conservatives. The concept behind the proposal is to force a certain “conservative ideological purity” on to candidates and elected officials in the Republican Party so that Republicans don’t end up supporting socialist-statist policies. The RNC will vote on the proposal next month when it holds its annual meeting.

• Why Do We Need A “Jobs Summit” If Harry Reid’s So-Called “Stimulus” Is Working? (National Republican Senatorial Committee) – As the White House hosts its “jobs summit” and discussions heat up surrounding a potential second stimulus bill, Democrats appear to have conceded that their $787 billion “stimulus” debacle has failed at providing the much-needed economic recovery that President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) promised when they rammed the bill through Congress in February 2009.

• Gibbons: Legislature Acted Irresponsibly By Failing to Approve Unemployment Regulation (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Gov. Jim Gibbons is rejecting the suggestion made by a lawmaker that his administration delayed action on regulations needed to ensure the continuation of unemployment benefits for out-of-work Nevadans beginning Jan. 1.

• Domenici: Yucca No, Recycling Yes (Pete Domenici) – More than 12 years ago, at Harvard University, I proposed a new energy paradigm: resurgence of nuclear power. At that time, interest in nuclear power in the United States was stagnant. That is no longer the case.

Click here to read these stories at the Nevada News & Views site!

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CALENDAR

• December 15:  Center-right coalition meeting co-hosted by Citizen Outreach and the Nevada Policy Research Institute at 8:30 am.  Invitation only.

• January 8: First Friday Happy Hour Brewhaha (we know, a week late – need to let people recover from their New Year’s Eve parties!).  Visit www.FirstFridayNevada.com

• January 19:  Center-right coalition meeting co-hosted by Citizen Outreach and the Nevada Policy Research Institute at 8:30 am.  Invitation only.

• February 5:  First Friday Happy Hour Brewhaha.  Visit www.FirstFridayNevada.com

• February 6: Citizen Outreach’s “Reagan Tribute” in Las Vegas.  Details to come.

• February 16:  Center-right coalition meeting co-hosted by Citizen Outreach and the Nevada Policy Research Institute at 8:30 am.  Invitation only.

• March 5: First Friday Happy Hour Brewhaha (we know, a week late – need to let people recover from their New Year’s Eve parties!).  Visit www.FirstFridayNevada.com

• March 16:  Center-right coalition meeting co-hosted by Citizen Outreach and the Nevada Policy Research Institute at 8:30 am.  Invitation only.

• March 28: Wrestlemania

• April 2: First Friday Happy Hour Brewhaha (we know, a week late – need to let people recover from their New Year’s Eve parties!).  Visit www.FirstFridayNevada.com

• April 20:  Center-right coalition meeting co-hosted by Citizen Outreach and the Nevada Policy Research Institute at 8:30 am.  Invitation only.

• May 7: First Friday Happy Hour Brewhaha (we know, a week late – need to let people recover from their New Year’s Eve parties!).  Visit www.FirstFridayNevada.com

• May 12-13: Conservative Leadership Conference in Las Vegas co-hosted by Citizen Outreach and Americans for Tax Reform.  Details to follow.

• May 18:  Center-right coalition meeting co-hosted by Citizen Outreach and the Nevada Policy Research Institute at 8:30 am.  Invitation only.