Local TeeVee folk did a look over Legislators’ tax files and found that only Harvey Munford and Morse Arberry failed to pay their state taxes. Both represent bits of Nor’Town, though I am guessing there’s no causal link. Mind you, that’s only a guess.

Munford [...]]]> Nor’Townie Assemblyfolk are having  trouble making their tax payments. (LasVegasNow)

Local TeeVee folk did a look over Legislators’ tax files and found that only Harvey Munford and Morse Arberry failed to pay their state taxes. Both represent bits of Nor’Town, though I am guessing there’s no causal link. Mind you, that’s only a guess.

Munford paid his up right away, but Arberry, the chair of the Assembly Ways and Means committee, has a history of failing to pay his taxes. Las Vegas Now is claiming that Arberry’s taxes and debts currently amount to as much as $496,000.

Sounds like Munford would make a swell candidate for the North Las Vegas Chamber. They’re all broke, too, ain’t they? And who better to run a bankrupt states’ Way and Means?

Course, Nor’Towners are waiting for the real fun of the city council and mayor race in 2009 when we have that silly [...]]]> The official period for signing up to run for political offices for the November election has begun, and you can keep track of who’s signed in over at the Clark County election site.

Course, Nor’Towners are waiting for the real fun of the city council and mayor race in 2009 when we have that silly off-year election that dooms the election to apathy and oblivion.

For now, we will just have to get by with the other races.

So far, several sacrificial lambs have signed up to get their butts whupped by Shelley Berkley this fall for Nor’Town congressional district 1:

• Chris Dyer (R) He’s apparently a national delegate to the Repukelican convention and a dedicated Ron Paul supporter. (RtF)
• Edward "Mr. Clean" Hamilton (R)
• Ray J. Kornfeld (R)
• Mike Powers (R)

Well, at least that’ll give you Republicans something to do at the primary. Mayor Mike oughtta jump in, too, just to make it interestin’–and to waste his money.

Tom Collins (D) will be running again for his seat on the Clark County Commission in District B. On Wednesday, May 14th, you can have pie with him. Mmm…Pie. I am resisting the temptation to call it "Pardee pie". Drat. I am so weak.

Marilyn Kirkpatrick (D) has signed up to defend her seat for for Assembly District 1.

Morse Arberry (D) will be running again in Assembly District 7.

Ruben Kihuen (D) will be running again in Assembly District 11.

Kelvin Atkinson (D) will be defending his seat in Assembly District 17. Atkinson has a challenger, one David Isbell (R). I guess Alberto* Angelo Carvalho‘s still in Iraq?

Mo Denis (D) has a challenger for his seat in district 28, one 
Augustin "Tino" Mendoza, who’s lost a couple of races for the state senate. (RJ,RJ) My favorite picture of Mr. Denis shows him trying to give Governor Jim Gibbons a little religion, which doesn’t seem to have taken.
   

Confused and lost? Check out the district maps over at the Nevada Legislature site.

* My apologizes for the dumb mistake. If it counts for anything, I have gotten it right in the past.

From the press announcement:

Assemblyman Morse Arberry, currently the President and CEO of Canyon Lake Mortgage, has represented the people of Nevada in the State Assembly since 1984. He currently serves as the chair of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee and is a member of [...]]]> Assemblyfeller Morse Arberry has endorsed Hilliary Clinton for President.

From the press announcement:

Assemblyman
Morse Arberry, currently the President and CEO of Canyon Lake Mortgage,
has represented the people of Nevada in the State Assembly since 1984.
He currently serves as the chair of the Assembly Ways and Means
Committee and is a member of the Commerce and Labor Committee and
Taxation Committee. He is an active member of numerous community
organizations, including the National Association for Advancement of
Colored People, the National Black Caucus of State Legislators; Clark
County Central Democratic Committee, the Western Legislative
Conference, the Council of State Governments, the National Conference
of State Legislatures, the Jodie Cannon Prince Hall Mason, and the Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., Commission.

Arberry has, as has one other African-American leader from the North Las Vegas vicinity, namely Councilman William Robinson, apparently resisted the siren call of Barack Obama, despite Obama’s recent visits to the area.