Just because we're now calling him "former" state Sen. Bill Raggio doesn't mean he's gone away. In fact, in a farewell radio interview in Northern Nevada last week, Raggio helped crystallize the by-now-obvious differences between himself and the new breed of Republicans on the rise in Carson City and Washington,
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Two visions, one party
Monday, January 17th, 2011
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The irreplaceable Mr. Raggio
Monday, January 17th, 2011
Editor's note: This column appears in this week's Las Vegas CityLife.One of the last things that Bill Raggio said before retiring from public life was simply untrue."Nobody is irreplaceable," said the longest-serving state senator in Nevada history. "You will find that out."It's more likely we'll find people are irreplaceable, and
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Raggio quits Legislature; Nevada political world changes forever
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
State Sen. Bill Raggio -- the longest serving state senator in history -- today announced he is quitting the Legislature before the 2011 session convenes.The announcement has been predicted many times in the past, but Raggio always returned for another round. But this time, citing decreased "physical mobility," he said
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Extremely uncool
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Early in my colleague Anjeanette Damon's story in the Las Vegas Sun about state Sen. Mike McGinness's coup that ousted Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio on the eve of his final legislative session, McGinness boasts just a bit."I think I took him by surprise," McGinness tells Damon. "Maybe I
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Republicans eating their own
Friday, November 12th, 2010
Editor's note: This column appears in this week's Las Vegas CityLife:The sad Raggio saga reveals Republicans can always be counted on to eat their ownThe re-election of Harry Reid has virtually zero impact on the Nevada state Senate Republican caucus, save that he'll probably score more money for the state's
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Elections have consequences
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
So Harry Reid wins his re-election ... and state Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio loses his leadership job? What's that, the political butterfly effect?Raggio, the longest-serving state senator in history, acknowledged to the Las Vegas Sun that he withdrew his name from consideration for another stint as minority leader,
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Sharron Angle: That’s strike three!
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
In the end, the truest statement in the entire campaign of 2010 may have been uttered by Sue Lowden, when the former Republican Party chairwoman said she was the only candidate who could beat Harry Reid.Certainly, Angle did not, losing by a decisive 40,000 votes or nearly 6 percent to
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Raggio respects the office, not necessarily the man
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
CARSON CITY -- Privately, Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio has clearly had enough. He's been heard in meetings and in hallways in the legislative building to say flatly that Gov. Jim Gibbons is trying to destroy what he and other lawmakers have spent 30 years building, namely the state's education
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