Published in the High Desert Advocate 6/14/18
Here are the official Results of the winners, for the Senate and State Assembly charts the Democrats are in blue and the Republicans in Red.
At the West Wendover local level, Judge Brian Boatman ran unopposed, and of course was re-elected to the Eastline Justice of the Peace.
West Wendover Recreation Board seat 2, Brian Ray won with 45 votes ahead of Michael Christensen 39, Maria Ortega 39, and Carolyn Santillanez 25.
For the School Board of Trustees, District 2, Tammie Cracraft-Dickenson ran unopposed.
For the Assembly District 33, (North Eastern Nevada) John Ellison incumbent won with 2,741 votes against new comer Chris Johnson, 673 votes.
Nevada has not had a Democratic governor since 1999, but this year, with Gov. Brian Sandoval barred by term limits, the race is expected to be very competitive. Six Democrats are running, foremost among them Christina Giunchigliani and Steve Sisolak, both Clark County commissioners. A recent poll showed them separated by just three percentage points, with a margin of error of four percentage points. On the Republican side, polls show Attorney General Adam Laxalt as the front-runner.
Rosen(D) and Heller(R) are going to battle for Nevada Senate Seat. Nevada voters delivered easy primary election wins to Republican Sen. Dean Heller and his Democratic opponent Jacky Rosen while teeing up a November battle for the governor’s mansion between the chairman of a powerful Las Vegas-area council and the state attorney general.
Steve Sisolak, who had the backing of former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and chairs the powerful council overseeing the Las Vegas Strip, overcame a bruising Democratic primary against his Clark County Commission colleague Christina Giunchigliani.
The race got combative, with an attack ad alleging Giunchigliani “single-handedly protected perverts” because of changes she made to a sex offender bill in the Legislature a decade ago.
Nevada is one of 26 Republican-held governors’ offices up for grabs this year and one of eight where Clinton won the presidential vote over Trump in 2016.
Laxalt, a former lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, won the GOP primary.
Laxalt, the 39-year-old grandson of former U.S. Sen. and Nevada Gov. Paul Laxalt and son of former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, said in a statement that the election in November would be “a choice between real solutions and a radical agenda that will take our unique state the way of California. Higher taxes, ridiculous regulations, sanctuary cities, you name it, my opponent supports it.”
The Nevada GOP also delivered an easy primary victory to Heller, the only GOP senator seeking re-election this year in a state won by Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
He was originally expected to face a tough challenge from Republican Danny Tarkanian until Trump asked him to run for Congress instead.
Rosen said Heller “has spent the last year letting Nevadans down by breaking his promises to protect our health care, passing a fiscally irresponsible tax bill to benefit his super-wealthy donors, and failing our Dreamers to placate his party’s leaders.” Democrats face long odds to take control of the U.S. Senate in November but winning Heller’s seat will be key to their aim.
Tarkanian, having left the Senate race, went on Tuesday to win the Republican race for Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District. It is one of two swing seats in Nevada that Democrats are hoping to hold in order to win control of the U.S. House.
Tarkanian, the son of former University of Nevada Las Vegas basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, will face wealthy Democratic philanthropist Susie Lee in the general election.
Primary contests for Nevada’s other swing district, the 4th Congressional District, produced a rematch for November between Democrat Steven Horsford and Republican Cresent Hardy. Horsford held the Democratic-leaning seat for one term before losing in 2014 to Hardy. Hardy then lost in 2016 to Democrat Ruben Kihuen, who is not seeking re-election after several women accused him of sexual misconduct.
Incumbent Rep. Mark Amodei defeated conservative activist Sharron Angle in Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District.
In an only-in-Nevada race, the state’s most famous pimp, Dennis Hof, defeated incumbent Assembly member James Oscarson of Pahrump.
Hof, who starred in the HBO adult reality series “Cathouse,” owns half a dozen brothels that could be threatened this year under proposals to ban such businesses in two of the state’s seven counties where they’re legally operating.
Hof celebrated his win at a party in Pahrump with Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss at his side.
“It’s all because Donald Trump was the Christopher Columbus for me,” Hof told The Associated Press in a phone call after his victory. “He found the way and I jumped on it.”
Hof said he’s downsizing his business and selling off some brothels to focus more on politics and he’s predicting a big win in November.