One thing I’m thankful for this Thanksgiving season is that, with the election behind us, we can finally stop talking about losers.
Consequently, this week’s column won’t be about Michele Fiore’s ill-advised foray into standup comedy, nor will it be about Donald Trump’s dinner with two antisemites — the loser habits of loser former politicians are both pathetic and boring in precisely the same way the loser habits of losers are always pathetic and boring. Nobody cares about, nor wants to listen to, what their chronically unemployed cousin thinks is wrong with the world, and Trump and Fiore are now both somebody’s chronically unemployed cousin.
I am thankful they are not my chronically unemployed cousins.
No, life belongs to the living and politics belongs to the elected. Instead of wasting our time on the past, let’s spend some time on the future — more specifically, on the 520 (and counting) Bill Draft Requests filed before our next legislative session by a combination of local and state agencies, along with a few elected officials.
Bill Draft Requests are the first step towards a bill becoming law in Nevada. Legislators, legislative committees, the governor, state agencies, and local governments may each submit a finite number of requests for bills — these requests are each, in turn, submitted to the Legislative Counsel Bureau, which is then responsible for turning each request into formal bill language. The details of each draft request are kept…
