Nevada Newsmakers

Host: Sam Shad
Co-Host: Ray Hagar, Reno Gazette Journal

Guests:
Marilyn Newton, photojournalist/author & Andrea Robb-Bradick, Reno resident & owner of the Jim Butler Motel in Tonopah on establishing a state park in Esmeralda County at Monte Cristo
Richard Disney, ( R )Candidate for Assembly District 26
Pundits:
Anjeanette Damon, political reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal
Chris Wicker, Chair, Washoe County Democratic Party
Daryl Capurro, Nevada Motor Transport Assn.
John Gwaltney, State School Board


"We ended up behind the eight ball trying to get a hold of some of the legislators because we didn’t expect to present this at the last legislature. So, we wrote emails, we sent letters to each one of the legislators and told them about the state park, but it was just strictly a political backlash that we ran into, we didn’t even get to present our facts, didn’t get to talk to a lot of the people before we were shut down by a powerful southern legislator. "

- Andrea Robb-Bradick, discussing how the Assembly Democrats shut down a bill to establish a state park in Esmeralda County at Monte Cristo because they were retaliating against the Republican Legislator from the area that voted against the tax package.