The only time a Democrat was elected governor of Nevada in this century was when Donald Trump was president.
Maybe Nevada Democrats will get lucky, and the next time the governor’s race is on the ballot, in 2026, Trump will be president again.
In the meantime, several reforms and proposals that failed to get enacted – or in some cases weren’t even allowed to be debated – over the past four years when Democrats controlled the governor’s office and the Legislature now stand little to zero chance of being enacted into state statutes.
Nice work, everyone.
So are those measures, some progressive, some just common sense, left behind by Gov. Steve Sisolak and Democratic lawmakers dead for the foreseeable future?
Yeah, probably.
But maybe not necessarily.
Let’s pretend to play Jeopardy.
“This state that starts with the letters ‘Ne’ enacted a $15 minimum wage.”
The correct response: “What is Nebraska?”
Nebraska voters last month easily approved a ballot initiative to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2026.
Nevada’s minimum wage is scheduled to top out at $12 in 2024.
Asked in 2019, when Nevada’s minimum wage legislation was being passed, why the increase wasn’t bigger, Jason Frierson, the Democratic Assembly Speaker at the time, said the more modest increase was “palatable.”
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