Serving the Northern Las Vegas Valley
Please join State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford for his Official Office Opening!
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Horsford for Congress Campaign Headquarters
4060 Martin Luther King Blvd. | Suite #101A
North Las Vegas, NV 89032
RSVP to: Marian Williams at (702) 813-6923 or at mwilliams@stevenhorsford.com
You are invited to “Chocolate, Chicks and Chatter”
Friday, April 13, 2012 at 5:30 pm
2960 Redwood St.., Las Vegas
RSVP (702) 596-2559
Hosted by Diana Alba, Lynn Goya, Melody Nelson, Shawina Tims, Edna Watson, Yvette Williams and Andrea Woods
Assemblyman and North Valley Member Kelvin Atkinson will be holding another campaign walk in his campaign for Senate District 4 on Saturday, March 24th at 9:30 am, launching from 832 High Altitude Ave., North Las Vegas, NV 89032. Lite breakfast will be served, but please be on time!
Hey all!
Now that Candidate Filing has concluded, here’s a list of all Democratic candidates running in our area, with website (if live) and Twitter information (if applicable). We have denoted who are members, as of February 2012:
US Senate:
Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (NVDC Charter Member) – Website www.shelleyberkley.com Twitter – @Berkley4Senate
Barry Ellsworth – Website www.barryellsworth.us Twitter – @BarryForNevada
Michael J Leslie
Louis Macias – Website www.louismacias.com
Nancy Price – Website www.nancypriceforcongress.com Twitter – @NancyPrice11
Congressional District 4:
State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford – Website – www.stevenhorsford.com Twitter @StevenHorsford
State Senate, District 1:
State Senator John Lee (NVDC Charter Member). Website – www.votejohnlee.com. Twitter @VoteJohnLee
Patricia Spearman – Twitter = @Spearman4Senate
State Senate, District 18:
Donna Schlemmer (NVDC Charter Member) Website – www.schlemmerforsenate.com Twitter – @schlemd
Kelli Ross
Assembly, District 1:
Assemblywoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick (NVDC Member) Website – www.marilynkirkpatrick.com Twitter – @TheGAChair
Note – Assemblywoman Kirkpatrick is running unopposed. We congratulate her on her re-election!
Assembly, District 4:
Ken Evans – Website – www.kenevansfornevada.com
Assembly, District 13:
Kelly Charles
Lou DeSalvio – Website – www.desalviofornevada.com
Leisa Moseley – Website – http://leisamoseley.com/
Assembly, District 17:
Assemblyman Steven Brooks (NVDC Member) – Website – www.brooks4assembly.com
Clark County Commission, District B:
County Commissioner Tom Collins (NVDC Charter Member) – Website – www.tom-collins.com
Clark County School Board Trustee, District B:
Chris Garvey
Rose Moore
Clark County School Board Trustee, District E:
Zakeisha Jones
Luis Melendrez
Anthony Spiegel
State Board of Education, District 4:
Mark Newburn (NVDC Member) – Website – www.mark4education.com Twitter – @RMarkNewburn
Note – As of the end of filing, Mr. Newburn is running unopposed. We congratulate Member-elect Newburn on his election to the State Board of Education!
Even though, he’s running outside of our official area, Assemblyman Kelvin Atkinson, a NVDC member, is running in Senate District 4. His website is www.atkinson4nevada.com and his Twitter handle is @katkinson702.
As a reminder, the North Valley Democratic Club, as a chartered organization under the Clark County Democratic Party and per our bylaws does not endorse in races where there are more than one Democrat running. Our members are free to support the candidate of their choice, but cannot do so in their official capacity as a member of the organization.
The North Valley Democratic Club will hold an election of officers:
2400 W. Deer Springs Way
North Las Vegas, NV 89084
Positions to be filled are:
A description of each position and its respective duties can be found in the club’s By-Laws located on the NVDC home page. http://www.northvalleydems.com/downloads.htm .
The election of officers is open to all members of the NVDC
Members seeking office must be registered to vote in Clark County
Members must be present to receive a ballot and vote (No absentees or proxies)
Nominations will be accepted from the floor and posted (Persons wishing to nominate themselves or another member for a position should be present at 6:30 PM to ensure that names are posted at the opening of balloting). There will be room on the ballot for write-ins.
Meeting will be called to order at 6:30 and there will be a call for nominations at that time. Voting will commence at 6:45 PM and end promptly at 7:30 PM.
Counting of ballots will begin at 7:30 PM. Any candidate, or their surrogate, may witness the count. Winners will be notified by phone and official results will be posted on the NVDC website.
If you have any questions, or to have you name placed on the ballot, contact:
John Birkland – jabirkland@centurylink.net
Here’s the soft copy of the draft of the revised North Valley Democratic Club’s bylaws. They more closely align with the bylaws of the State and County parties. We’ve re-arranged some of the officer positions and add two new at-large board positions – one from North Las Vegas and one from Las Vegas/Unincorporated Clark County to ensure each side of Decatur has representation on our e-board.
This will be our first order of business at our March meeting. Immediately following will be officer elections.
Jon Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun reports that embattled State Senator Elizabeth Halseth has resigned her State Senate seat, effective immediately. This will place the office on the November ballot to fill out the two-year term under the new boundaries and the County Commission will appoint replacement should the Governor call a Special Session.
So, quite a bit happened today! Here’s a quick recap for everyone:
1. During today’s meeting of the Legislative Commission, the Chair, State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford and Assemblywoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick requested that State Senator Elizabeth Halseth be replaced on the Interim CTax Study Committee due to non-responsiveness. This brings public what was previously private – no one knows where the Senator from District 9 is. This clearly took Minority Leader in Waiting Mike Roberson by surprise as his responses were really, really heated. The Legislative Commission tabled replacing Senator Halseth, but this was clearly a shot across the bow.
2. While that meeting was still going on, State Sen. Sheila Leslie, who is currently in the middle of her freshman term in the upper house, announced that she is resigning her safe Democratic seat to take on appointed State Sen. Greg Brower in District 15. This is definitely a gamble. It’s a swing district, but Sen. Leslie is very media-savvy, knows how to raise money and a hard campaigner. Jon Ralston is already predicting this will be the most expensive State Senate race in Nevada’s history.
All in all, a GREAT day for the Democrats and some very smart strategy on our team’s part.
Zach Ware from the Zappos Family of Companies will come speak to us about plans for the company to move to Downtown Las Vegas.
In addition, members of the Senate Democratic Caucus will come to address some of the concerns we dicussed at our last meeting and raised in our e-mail to its members.
As usual, we’ll be meeting at:
Aliante Library
2400 W. Deer Springs Way
N. Las Vegas, NV 89084
Particulars:
Date – February 16, 2012
Doors open at 6
Meeting will be called to order promptly at 6:15
