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Nevada
and Clark County 2002 Ballot Questions and Issues
Homeless
Relief (Clark County)
An
Advisory Question would instruct the County Commission to urge the
Nevada Legislature to enact legislation establishing a Homeless
Services and Affordable Housing Trust Fund, and authorize an annual
property tax increase of 1-cent per $100 of assessed valuation to
provide monies to the Trust Fund for services and housing for
homeless and low income individuals.
Lane's Position:
SUPPORT
The current out-of-sight-out-of-mind mentality towards
the homeless in the Las Vegas area is unacceptable. Steps must be
taken to help these people get the treatement and fresh start they
need.
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Marijuana
Possession (Nevada)
An initiative on the state ballot in
November would amend the Nevada Constitution to provide that
“possession of 3 ounces or less of marijuana by a person aged
21 or older is not a cause for arrest.”
Lane's
Position: SUPPORT
The War on Drugs is a failure.
Decriminialization and reasonable regulation has worked everywhere it
has been tried with respect to crime and overall drug
use.
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Medical
Malpractice Crisis – Tort Reform (Nevada)
Do
you support or oppose the state of Nevada placing a cap on awards for
non-economic damages, such as pain and suffering, in medical
malpractice lawsuits?
Lane's Position: SUPPORT
Doctors
are leaving Nevada at alarming rates, so much so that a lack of
staffing caused the trauma center in Las Vegas to be shut down over
the summer. It is amazing that Gov. Kenny Guinn and our state
government ihad to be shamed into taking even token action on this
most serious issue.
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Public Power Utility (Clark
County)
The final ballot question would recommend that the
Nevada Legislature take appropriate action to enable the electrical
energy provider for Southern Nevada to be a locally controlled, not
for profit public utility.
Lane's Position: SUPPORT
Nevada
Power is a monopoly out of control, harming southern Nevada with
constant rate hikes. It is time we take action to ensure power
remains affordable in the Las Vegas area.
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Public
Transportation (Clark County)
One
ballot advisory question authorizes the County Commission to
implement the Southern Nevada 2002 Fair Sharing Program, which will
generate approximately $2.7 billion over 25 years from taxes on
developers, aviation fuel and retail sales to fund improvements in
local transportation. This will include additional street and highway
projects, new and expanded transit, expanded transit for senior
citizens and air quality improvements, and will also make Southern
Nevada eligible to receive up to an additional $3 billion in state
and federal funding for transportation and air quality.
Lane's
Position: SUPPORT
Public transportation in the Las Vegas area
is woefully inadequate as it is. Continued growth in this region will
only make that reality worse. Any measure to improve public
transportation in southern Nevada garners my full
support.
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Same-Sex
Marriage Ban (Nevada)
Another initiative on the state ballot
in November would amend the Nevada Constitution to provide that “only
a marriage between a male and a female person shall be recognized and
given effect in the state.”
Lane's Position:
OPPOSE
It is not the
government's business to say who one chooses for his or her life
partner, nor is it the goverment's duty to penalize those who choose
same-sex partners.
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State Income Tax
(Nevada)
Would you support
or oppose amending the state constitution to repeal the ban on a
state income tax?
Lane's Position: OPPOSE
As
a general rule I do not support raising taxes on working people,
especially when funding can come from more appropriate sources. I
believe necessary state funding can be derived under our current
system of taxing gaming revenues. I will support an increase on those
taxes before I support a state income tax.
Authorized
by the Lane Startin for Congress Committee, Amber J. Schneiter,
Treasurer
P.O. Box 33761
Las Vegas, NV 89133-3761
(702)
324-2370
info@lanestartin.org
www.lanestartin.org
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