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Porter takes center stage in GOP bid for energy bill

Washington — One morning last week, as Congress remained bitterly divided over how best to lower the price of $4-a-gallon gas, Rep. Jon Porter stepped into the fray with a parliamentary maneuver that was uncharacteristically aggressive. (Las Vegas Sun, Lisa Mascaro)

Link: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/aug/04/porter-takes-center-stage-go...

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Porter, Heller skipping GOP bash 

There will be at least two empty seats in Nevada's delegation to the Republican National Convention next month.

Reps. Jon Porter and Dean Heller are passing up the formal nomination of John McCain for the presidency to remain at home and campaign to keep their seats in Congress. (Review Journal, Molly Ball)

Link: http://www.lvrj.com/news/26235559.html

election ambitions -- no frills 

Anthony Wernicke will lose. Let's get that out of the way right up front.

He does not believe this -- he cannot believe this -- but it's true. (Review Journal, Richard Lake)

Link: http://www.lvrj.com/news/26235524.html

It's Adelson's Freedom's Watch vs. DCCC

If it’s Friday afternoon, it's a schoolyard fight between the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee vs. Freedom’s Watch.

Think Mean Girls meets the Potomac. (PolitickerNV.com, Alex Isenstadt)

Link:  http://www.politickernv.com/alexisenstadt/2154/its-adelsons-freedoms-wat...

Bill seeks to protect land around Carson City

The government would transfer thousands of acres of federal land to Carson City for open space and recreation, and would permanently withdraw another 20,000 acres of federal land near the city from development if federal legislation is approved. (Gazette Journal, Staff)

Link: http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080803/NEWS18/80803012

Buried but embarrassing news: GOP unable to host convention

Amid all the other mishaps and scandals that have sullied the Republican brand recently, the state party’s canceling of its convention may seem insignificant. (Las Vegas Sun, Brian Eckhouse)

Link: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/aug/03/buried-embarrassing-news-gop...

Early voting turn out is low in Clark County

LAS VEGAS — Turnout is low in Clark County after the first six days of early voting in the primary election. (Gazette Journal, AP)

Link:  http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080802/NEWS18/80802008

Democrats paint blue target on Heller's seat 

CARSON CITY -- Democratic congressional candidate Jill Derby figures her chances of defeating Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., improved Friday when her race was placed in her party's Red-to-Blue program.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee decided the Heller-Derby 2nd Congressional District rematch will be one of the races it will target in its program to turn red Republican districts to blue Democratic ones. (Review Journal, Ed Vogel)

Link: http://www.lvrj.com/news/26204194.html

Report shows increase in Nevada schools with low marks

CARSON CITY — The latest report card on Nevada’s 654 public elementary and secondary schools and programs shows an increase over last year’s total of schools that got low marks, the state Department of Education said Friday. (Gazette Journal, AP)

Link:  http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080801/NEWS18/80801052

GOP stays behind as Dems turn out the lights — literally

WASHINGTON -- A mini-revolution erupted on the House floor today when Democrats shut off the lights and adjourned for the August recess -- and Republicans refused to go home.

Dozens of House Republicans, including Rep. Jon Porter, kept right on debating -- initially in the dark and without microphones -- to protest Democrats’ refusal to pass an energy bill before the summer break. (Las Vegas Sun, Lisa Mascaro)

Link: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/aug/01/gop-stays-behind-dems-turn-o...

City lands bill goes to U.S. Senate

Carson City could gain about 6,200 acres of federal land that it would protect from economic development if a bill introduced this week in the U.S. Senate is approved.

The city would trade 2,260 acres of city-owned property in the heights of the Sierra Nevada west of the city for the land. (Nevada Appeal, Staff)

Link: http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20080801/NEWS/197077364/-1/rss05

Nevada voter fraud task force formed

LAS VEGAS — A voter fraud task force is looking for election irregularities and instances of questionable voter registration and intimidation in Nevada.

Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, U.S. Attorney Gregory Brower and FBI Las Vegas Special Agent in Charge Steven Martinez pointed Thursday to projections of a record voter turnout in Nevada in November. (Nevada Appeal, AP)

Link: http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20080801/NEWS/833951188/-1/rss05

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