Carson City Republican Party Terminates Membership of Assemblyman PK O'Neill
Tuesday the Executive Board voted to remove Assemblyman PK O'Neill from the Carson City Republican Party. There has been much press and he has a very good writer who accentuates his few highly selective non-controversial votes while in the legislature and ignores the bulk of his decisions. Obviously our action is not due to his non-challenging votes but rather his many dubious ones. He does not acknowledge his campaign promises. He does not discuss attending a CCRP meeting at which he asked for our direction on this tax issue. Our feedback was consistent with 80% of his constituents who voted NO less than a year previously to a new gross receipts tax. Clearly we are not the radicals as he claims.
His vote for the largest tax increase in Nevada history (30 out of 32 votes according to one source) was not courageous and right as he claims. In my opinion courageous would have been to remove the very expensive and intrusive data collection system – part of Common Core, collecting 500 data points on your child and sharing that info with undisclosed persons and businesses - while remaining true to Republican principles. That would have funded the schools (and more) handsomely without a tax increase. This is just my suggestion for tax savings. What alternatives did he pursue in lieu of increasing taxes? In our conversations he dismissed off hand the alternative budget proposal for cost cutting being circulated at that time.
Mr. O'Neill does have the opportunity to appeal this action by coming before the entire body at tonight's 7PM General Membership meeting at the Silver State Performing Arts Center, 900 Mallory Way. He has given no indication that he will attend.
Roger Haynes, Chairman
Carson City Republican Party
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