steak knife

She's only an Assemblywoman for 27 more days, so we're on a deadline.  I've got a fiver for the first person who can send me proof of Francis O. Allen's middle name.

Cold, hard cash.  How can you beat it?  Post away below.  

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If you aren't lazy, find real numbers at the Clark County website, the Washoe County website, and the Secretary of State's website.

Primary condensed soup for the lazy:

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke

To anyone who has worked with elected officials, the truth of P.J. O'Rourke's statement is undeniable. Fortunately for journalists, the "whiskey and car keys" analogy now carries over to political campaigns thanks to the First Amendment.

Just about anyone can run for office. From the success of the "steak knife" tag we also see that even when lacking any semblance of common sense, just about anyone can serve.

And we can call them on it when they do.

Wally is disappointed in you.

I know that by our very nature, politicos are not the most stable sandwiches at the picnic. But this has gone a step too far.

As a joke, I added the tag "steak knife" to any story about Asy. Francis O. Allen (R-Las Vegas) and the alleged stabbing of her husband with a steak knife. The charges were later dropped, but thanks to that First Amendment thing we can write about it all the way up to the election.

How do you save the state when you face a record budget shortfall, have already cut to the bone, and have painted yourself into a corner with a "no taxes" pledge?

Turn to the gays.

If Gov. Jim Gibbons (R-Sparks) could just get around that pesky constitutional amendment, we could marry gays here and probably make some good coin doing so.

GOP Executive Director Zac Moyle and State Chairperson Sue Lowden have to wake up every day with overwhelming fear as they click through the morning news outlets to find out how the state GOP has collapsed that day.

And the irony is that the collapse has almost nothing to do with the two of them.

(Las Vegas, NV) Today we mourn the death of the political career of Francis O. Allen, Republican Assemblywoman from Clark County. The career was a tender three years, six months old.

The career made some freshman mistakes in office that riled powerful elements in her GOP base, but those were largely written off to the career being a freshman and developing her own political senses vote-by-vote.