Yes, tried to kill me. I’m an open book. They won’t let me testify at the Grant Sawyer Building, and they sent 100 police officers to arrest me. Let me ask you, how can they do that?Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks • Discussing the decision by the assembly to expel the politician from his seat, because he’s been acting erratically. (Nobody’s trying to kill him, and no police officers have shown up to arrest him.) Brooks, who once did a mostly-shirtless 35 minute interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, has made threatening comments towards his colleagues, most notably Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick, and has been arrested multiple times in recent months. (Some who voted to expel him said they felt unsafe with him in the legislative building.) The Democrat, who often called press conferences he never showed up for, is the first politician in Nevada to face an expulsion vote from the legislature in 146 years.
6 US Marines dead in explosion at Nevada facility
NBC News: Six US Marines are dead and eight are injured after a Monday night live fire exercise at a US Army Depot in Hawthorne, Nevada.
Officials say a 60-mm. mortar exploded as the Marines were preparing to fire it. The depot is used as a storage facility for ammunition and other equipment.Photo: Hawthorne Army Depot in western Nevada is seen in this Aug. 30, 2010 satellite image courtesy of Google Earth. (Google Earth / Reuters)
More details on the facility: “Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD) is an archive site for storing slow-moving ammunition and stocks awaiting demilitarization. HWAD provides high desert training facilities for military units. As the designated site for long-term storage of reused Industrial Plant Equipment, Hawthorne receives, stores and accounts for all IPE.”
Las Vegas police are looking for a black Range Rover after a sudden burst of gunshots and a car fire led to the deaths of three people on the famed Strip, shutting down the gambling boulevard in several directions.
A Range Rover Sport with black rims and tinted windows pulled up to a Maserati at a stoplight at the intersection of Las Vegas and Flamingo Boulevards around 4:20 a.m. Thursday, Sgt. John Sheahan of the Las Vegas Police Department said.
Early reports indicated that guns were fired from both the Range Rover and the victims’ Maserati; however, police say there is no evidence that the second vehicle’s occupants fired a weapon of any kind. In addition to the three casualties, three additional victims were treated and released from a local hospital for minor injuries, and a fourth remains at the medical facility for additional treatment.
We have a joke around here. Pretty soon we’re going to have such long commercial breaks that people are going to tune in and all they’ll hear is: ‘Hello, welcome to News 3. And goodbye.’Lisa Howfield, general manager of local NBC-afficiliate KSNV - Commenting on the increasingly long, and repetitive, commercial breaks that are beginning to wear thin on many television viewers in/around Las Vegas. The city just set a new record for most political ads in a single year, passing the old record of 73,000, with nearly a month to go before Election Day 2012. In total, 98 ads are currently in circulation on Las Vegas television networks, and are being run more than 10,000 times per week. source
What’s the downside? Jon Stewart getting all serious and haughty? Harry Reid could not care less.A Harry Reid confidante, quoted in Politico • On the majority leader’s recent allegations about Mitt Romney. Stewart called Reid a “really terrible person” for
“The Paul folks couldn’t get their people turned out for the caucus,” said veteran Nevada political columnist Jon Ralston. “But they outmaneuvered the Nevada Romney people ever since and dominated the county conventions and this is the inevitable result. The question remains: To what end?”
Nevada delegates are bound by the state’s results on the first convention ballot, so Romney will still get their support. Paul’s Nevada supporters are not challenging that rule, for fear of losing their convention seats altogether. Delegates who abstain will be replaced with alternates.
But some Paul supporters are hoping for a brokered convention, at which they could back Paul on subsequent ballots. Given Romney’s massive delegate lead, that’s highly unlikely. At the very least, they can vocally cheer for their preferred nominee and pressure the party to give Paul a bigger voice.
Paul supporters, which pulled off a trick in Maine, won 22 of Nevada’s 25 delegates, whether or not they actually vote for Paul.
» Should Mitt be worried? Clearly, Paul’s attempt at building a campaign is a bit unorthodox — he only has 80 delegates, but he could end up stealing some of Romney’s if he keeps it up — but even if he can’t win outright, he could damage Romney’s campaign. As The Hill puts it: “National Republicans worry that if grassroots party loyalists aren’t supporting the presumptive nominee, the party could struggle against President Obama’s fundraising and organizational efforts.”
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From bus-sized meteorite to quarter-sized chunks: Earlier this week, a meteor roughly the size of a minivan showed up around California and Nevada, creating a sonic boom and eventually breaking into chunks like the one held by Robert Ward, a meteorite hunter. Beyond the obvious novelty of a giant fireball in the sky, folks who know where to look managed to find awesome souvenirs like this one. Radical. (Photo by Rich Pedroncelli/AP)
The most important state for Newt is not Georgia, it’s Nevada.CNN analyst Alex Castellanos • Making a sly (and hilarious) reference to casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who’s basically Newt Gingrich’s cash cow right now.
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Nevada Caucus: Snooze. Everyone’s calling the race for Romney. According to CNN, he’s won most demographic categories without even flinching. It’s not even close. Well … unless you’re second.
Santorum has tough words for his other candidates tonight: ”What we saw in the last few weeks in the state of Florida is not something that’s going to help us win this election.” He wants to get past mudslinging. 100 percent with Rick.
I just thank everybody for their prayers … thank God I was home.Rick Santorum • Speaking in his interview with CNN about his daughter Bella, who fell ill over the weekend. He says that Bella will be out of the hospital soon. Santorum’s hanging out in Nevada tonight, feeling he didn’t really have a shot in Florida.
In response to Sheldon Adelson’s concerns about the Nevada caucuses conflicting with the Jewish Sabbath, Republican Party officials said Monday they were adding a special evening caucus session on Feb. 4 for Jewish voters marking the Sabbath. The session was expected to delay the reporting of results from the nominating contest by several hours.
Adelson had a good point, granted, but we’re surprised that a single man can have that much influence on a caucus.
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