Destination: Carson City
Nevada Senator Bob Beers represented western Las Vegas families in the Nevada Legislature from 1999 to 2008. In 2006, he was awarded a "Taxpayer Hero" award from Americans For Tax Reform.
Nevada Senate
In his first year in the senate, Beers' became vice-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. In that capacity, he helped direct about half of the Senate Republicans' traditional "pork" spending toward reducing the "Nevada Income Tax" (payroll tax) by 3%. He also served as a member of the Committees on Natural Resources and Legislative Operations. 
Beers Asks Hard Questions
In 2003, then-Assemblyman Beers performed independent analysis concluding that Governor Guinn was wrong that his $1.25 billion package of tax hikes wasn't an increase in taxes but "just what Nevada needs to keep up."
Time proved Beers right - Guinn's one-third expansion of the state general fund turned out to be one of the largest single tax-and-spend events in Nevada history, and continues to hold our local economy back.
His high profile in that public debate made him a political target of the far left, who spent four years and a rumored million dollars, they defeated Senator Beers when he was next up for re-election.
Today
For the past three years, Beers has concentrated most of his energy toward building a new CPA firm in the private sector. Seale & Beers, CPAs.today employs about a dozen people near Jones and US 95. Beers is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, and a Quickbooks ProAdvisor.
He and his firm audit small public companies, serve others as contract-based CFO, and perform compliance services for federal and state political candidates and committees.
Since 2010, Beers has served on the five-member board of directors of the Las Vegas Monorail Company, a seasoned group of five community leaders who is leading the decade-old system through some interesting new legal precedents in US Bankruptcy Court. He is the treasurer of the Tonopah Historic Mining Park Foundation (a fascinating gem of Nevada history four hours from downtown Las Vegas), a volunteer member of the US Civil Rights Advisory Committee, and serves on the UNLV Accounting Department's Alumni Advisory Board.
He was volunteer staff in his neighborhood for the recent partisan presidential caucus.