Tag: politics

The Carson City mayor's race is starting to get crowded. Ever since mayor Marv announced that he wouldn't be running for a fourth(!) term, several people have stepped forward with an interest in the job. This week is the week to actually put your papers in if you want to run, so now we can see who's serious about taking on the job. So far we have a school board president, a doctor, a Realtor, and a pastor. And as of today, we have a barber.

Adam Baker owns Les’ Barber Shop on Winnie Lane, and he thinks he's the right guy for the job. But he's not just a barber, he's also an artist who paints portraits of his customers in between clippings. And he's also a filmmaker, with a 6-part travel odyssey posted on YouTube titled Kenny's Big Adventure.

Adam himself introduces what Kenny's Big Adventure is all about in the first video below, but here's the elevator pitch. A couple of years ago, when Governor Kenny Guinn was leaving office, he solicited for artists to paint his official portrait to hang in the State Capitol. 16 artists from all over Nevada submitted "audition portraits" of the governor, but rather than award one of them the job Kenny picked a non-Nevadan to paint his portrait. This cheesed Adam off a little bit, so he took his audition portrait in a rented van and went on a little journey. He visited all 50 state capitals with the portrait, and in each one he took a photo of Kenny hanging out in the men's room of the Capitol Building. Mounted him right over the urinal. Naturally this got him a fair bit of press. But the real record of his trip is right here on YouTube, in six parts. Sit back and enjoy; this epic is nearly an hour long.

Who needs an election? Just give him the mayor's office right now.

No Safe Place lets us know today about a website you can go to to put your name on a "Do Not Call" list for Nevada political candidates. Of course there are other things you can do there, like keep track of every time you've voted in the last nine years, and find out where your caucus location is (although, if you're registered "Non-Partisan" like me, you don't have a caucus, so the system just kind of burps at you). But the real benefit here is that Do Not Call list, so run out and put yourself on it!

I went down and cruised by the Community Center today at noon, while the candidate's forum was going on. I was expecting the scene to be a little more hectic that it actually turned out to be. The parking lot was full, which can be common anytime there's an event going on there. But there was no traffic backed up, no throngs of people standing around outside. It really wasn't much different from any other day.

Except for the satellite trucks,

and the protesters,

and the police that were out in force, surrounding the building on all sides.

They even had a bomb squad truck prominently parked where there was no way to miss it, just in case any of those protesters got any wacky ideas.

Speaking of the protesters, I think they need to give their big slogan a second look. "Your + Our Grandfathers Called Socialists 'Pinkos'". Needlessly wordy, grammatically questionable, and puzzlingly irrelevant. I think their other signs, "Keep Nevada Red" and "Leftist Loons Go Home" were a bit more to the point.

So it's looking like Carson City is about to get famous, as a political whirlwind descends on the town tomorrow. I personally don't care one whit about politics, beyond wanting a Democrat to win, any Democrat, so you won't be hearing about tomorrow's candidate forum from me.

Of course, there's nothing stopping any of you from filing a report here if you do happen to go, or just if you have an opinion on the whole thing. Just use the blue "Publish An Article" button.

And for all you out-of-towners and candidates, if you're reading this, remember: it's pronounced Nevaaada, not Nevahhda. As in "I had a good time in Nevada." Say it wrong and we won't vote for you.