Andrew Martin has to be floored at the irony.

A recap of the path this has taken:
Martin enters race for CD-3 against Jon Porter as self-funded gadfly. When establishment candidate withdraws, Martin is passed over for someone he won't run against, and switches to challenge Chad Christensen in order to give a green flag to Dina Titus for the clear CD-3 nod. He's a decent candidate against Christensen, but mostly because he can self-fund.

At the last minute, Christensen doesn't file, changing the game completely.

The human side of anyone would admit that the Governor should probably have had one go his way just on sheer luck at this point. Maybe not a strike, but the occasional spare? But so far, they all end up as gutter balls.

Muth covers the SAGE mess here.

Our home town favorite Sheldon Adelson is gaining unwanted infamy in a series of DCCC ads.

Politico is reporting that the ad campaign establishes Adelson as the George Soros of the right, and ties Bible-belt GOP candidates to a gambling empire with ads that feature the candidate with a superimposed photo placed "onto images of a slot machine and a singer wearing gold lamé."

Check out the Fertitta Brothers on the cover of the current Forbes magazine, or read about them here.

For the lazy: UFC was a $2 million initial investment in 2001, but after a few years and and an additional $50 million(ish) invested, the UFC brand has become the NFL of MMA (mixed martial arts) with current value of over $1 billion.

Recognizing that Nevada has become the epicenter of the housing and mortgage crisis, both Rep. Jon Porter and Rep. Dean Heller crossed party lines to vote for the main provisions of the Democratic housing rescue package.

Of course Rep. Shelley Berkley was there on all provisions of the package.

See the full story at the Las Vegas Sun.

The AP is reporting that Nevada casino winnings dropped 1.5% in March compared with the same month a year ago. This further softening of the Nevada economy also was the ninth consecutive monthly drop for the Reno-Sparks-North Tahoe area.

If the trend continues it will be increasingly difficult for Gov. Gibbons to make ends meet with the state budget, and the odds of an off-year special session continue to increase as the financial forecast collects more storm clouds.

The Southern Nevada Health District is reporting 77 potential new clinic-associated hepatitis C infections in the investigation into the outbreak associated with the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada.

Yesterday Gov. Gibbons signed the executive order creating the Spending and Government Efficiency Commission, with the following purpose:

"The SAGE Commission shall make recommendations that will: identify areas of government spending where savings can be found; identify areas where increased efficiencies in state government operations can be found; and identify means to improve state governmental services to citizens. The specific areas of state government reviewed shall be within the discretion of the SAGE Commission."

I would get carpal tunnel trying to put this ongoing Ron Paul Circus into one post, so I had always planned to spread it into several different posts with different aspects of the fiasco. A circus does have three rings, after all.

The original plan was to have the candidate and his views first, then the operatives, and then the supporters. But recent on-the-record correspondence with Jeff Greenspan, the Regional Director of the Ron Paul campaign has vaulted him ahead of his candidate in the pecking order.

U.S. Senator Susan Collins on Wally Edge, at the Maine Republican State Convention last weekend. Go to PolitickerME.com for more information.