From Restore Fairness blog

Progressive bloggers like Restore Fairness (www.restorefairness.org) will be presenting panels on immigration at Netroots Nation in the last week of July. Netroots Nation is an annual convention that amplifies progressive voices online and in-person and provides space for discussing ways to improve the use of technology to influence the public debate.

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(Proudly cross-posted at My Silver State and OC Progressive)

Fortunately, advocates for a high-speed maglev rail line from Las Vegas to Orange County are still moving forward. Good on them. Unfortunately, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D?-NV) is being lured (aka paid off) to support a not-so-high speed rail line from Vegas to Victorville.

So why should we be furious? I'll explain after the flip.

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I talked about this for Iowa -- in the The 4% Iowa Party Hack Lie -- and it's just as bad or even worse in Nevada. How about a little right to make your voting choice in private, away from bosses' (including union bosses') ears and eyes?! It's damn obvious caucuses, which violate the principle of a secret ballot, should be illegal, but they aren't in this devolving to pre-democracy. Here's Las Vegas Sun columnist John Ralston (emphasis added throughout diary):

New York: We have heard a lot about unions pressuring their members (or not pressuring their members) to caucus for Obama. Do you think this is going to play a significant part in tomorrow's caucus? And as a follow up, if union members are largely Latino and minority, do think these demographics trump the union expectations?

Jon Ralston: The answer to your last question may be the key to the election. That is, will women and Hispanics in the Culinary -- Hispanics make up about 40 percent of the union members -- who might lean toward Hillary Clinton stick with her, or out of union solidarity, go with Obama? If it were a secret ballot, I think the Culinary's impact would be diminished. But these folks will be standing with other union members and openly stating their preference. How many will go against the union's wishes?

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Clinton The Right Choice

Hillary Clinton's vision, experience are what's needed for America at this time

Fri, Jan 18, 2008

One word can sum up George W. Bush's presidency: incompetence.

For seven years this nation has been subjected to an administration riddled with abject failures of leadership -- Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war instantly come to mind. We also have had an administration infested with cronyism and drenched in secrecy.

The American people naturally are demanding change, and the 2006 election was the first evidence of this, as Democrats regained control of both houses of Congress. But the Democrats hold a majority too slim to override vetoes, and Bush and Senate Republicans have obstructed Democratic legislation.

This year's presidential election offers an opportunity to change course and get our country moving in the right direction again. And, this Saturday, Nevadans will have their say.

The Republicans are holding a presidential nominating caucus, but nearly all of the party's candidates have ignored Nevada. One reason is that the Republicans are having a nonbinding caucus, a straw poll of Republicans that won't decide anything. Furthermore, the candidates are opting to campaign in the GOP battleground state of South Carolina, which is holding its primary on the same day as Nevada's presidential caucus, rendering our state's GOP outcome virtually meaningless.

In stark contrast, Nevada has become a battleground for the Democrats.

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Shaquille O'Neal and former President Bill Clinton have been  dragged into a prostitution case.  

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