I am going to agree to disagree with Kip as usual.
-Tourism is down due to reduced tourism from both Canada and Mexico, and the ongoing high energy costs from the Iran war. Joe has no control over federal level policies that negatively effect Nevada.
- Far left Canadians are throwing a tantrum due to Trump trying to normalize the trade imbalance between the US and Canada. Long term this isn't as issue as the vast majority of Far left Canadians are boomers, and will be dead in 10 years.
-Unemployment rates in Nevada have averaged 6.57% over the last 30 years, so a 5% rate is over-performing the historical average.
-Housing costs are both a local and state issue, mostly county and city level via zoning laws. There is little that the governor can do to move the needle on housing costs, especially due to the fact that the federal government owns 84% of the land in Nevada.
-The healthcare issues stems from the lack of long term planning at the county and city level, and the lack of spending on hospitals. Having only 1 major university hinders the ability to produce doctors, and the city doesn't attract enough high caliber people to live here. There are a host of reasons why this happens, which I won't dive into on this post.
-The public school issues stems not from the lack of funding, but from the students themselves. Kip has the typical "blank-slate" liberal worldview, were everyone is equal and the only roadblocks to achieving success is social-economic issues. Joe approved an additional 2 billion in funding for
#CCSD, which did not improve any tests scores or move the needle on graded metrics in the school district. Most of the money got sucked into the black hole of "admin costs", and not into actual increased spending per student or hiring more students. This current crisis is unfolding while the total number of kids decreases each year in the county. The real solution is to break up CCSD into at least 3 pieces (NLV, LV, Henderson), and give more choices to parents to have their kids out of public school. I myself have both of my kids in public schools and firsthand see the failures of CCSD, mostly from trying to tailor everything around the bottom 20% of students that attend the schools.
-Both data centers and flock cameras are a problem, and both parties endorse them. BOTH parties support them. And once again, both the county or cities could block them.
I want to end with two notes. First, the governor vote is the most important one this election cycle in Nevada, hands down. Lastly, I know people have the attention span of a gnat, but try to think back to the craziness that was the Covid-19 years with a Democrat at the governor position. I remember all the crazy rules, the shut down of the strip, the uncertainty of your jobs, the complete failure of the state to do anything correct. Unlike Kip, I am a union worker, and saw the permanent elimination of thousands of high paying union jobs with Sisolak. You can't take that risk with Ford... he has even more "Far Left" views than Sisolak has. While Joe hasn't been perfect, he has vetoed over 100 horrible bills passed by the
#NVLG, protecting the majority of Nevadans from the tyranny of the radical left that controls the legislative branch in Carson City.
