By John L. Smith, Nevada Smith

If I didn’t know better, I’d think there was something in the water.

HORSE LAUGH: The smartest move at the state Legislature – and how many times do I use “smartest” and “Legislature” in the same sentence during the year – is to shelve AB 329, which redefines “wild life” in Nevada to exclude wild horses and burros.

Horse lovers have loudly argued that the proposed law would have the force of enabling ranchers to block wild mustangs and burros from water holes. Advocates for ranchers, and by that I mean rural legislators, counter that the legislation would clarify the proper role of the Bureau of Land Management to provide for the federally protected species.

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By Chuck Muth, Muth’s Truths

Fiscal conservatives literally in a political war with the Left over Nevada’s budget. Alas, the GOP’s commanding general in the Assembly is leading the charge waving a white flag.

Gov. Sandoval has said no new taxes, no new fees, and no extension of the 2009 tax hikes which are scheduled to sunset on June 30. All 10 of the Senate Republicans have seconded that emotion, in writing.

But Republicans in the Assembly have yet to make a similar definitive public statement. Instead, Minority Leader Pete Goicoechea has been ham-handedly, not to mention foolishly, trying to negotiate an extension of the sunsets even though he (a) knows the Democrats will never go for his deal, and (b) even if they did, the deal would never be approved by Gov. Sandoval and the Senate Republicans.

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By Chuck Muth, Muth’s Truths

If you have any sense of fairness and justice, you might want to take your blood pressure medicine before reading this week’s column. Here’s the Reader’s Digest version.

A couple weeks ago, Citizen Outreach launched a telephone campaign urging taxpayers to contact Assemblyman Pete Goicoechea and voice opposition to his announcement that he was willing to negotiate with Democrats for higher taxes. And hundreds of Nevada citizens did just that.

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