A new study from the Center For Immigration Studies says a third of the record 40-million legal and illegal aliens now in the United States are on one or another public assistance program, but it doesn’t pin down how many are illegal.
Nevada, the percentage of our population who are immigrants has grown steadily, and we’re […]

I spoke to one of the Las Vegas Republican Women’s clubs this week, and was asked about my Official English bill from the 2007 session. I realized I had never posted the “rest of the story” on my campaign blog, so here goes.
At the end of the 2005 session, I was mystified by the way […]

I haven’t been called a racist since 2003, when I became the first Nevadan to criticize a pork program giving a half million state tax dollars to a “charity” run by Yvonne Gate’s then campaign manager (Sun, Sun). One of the disgraced Commissioner’s nephews said I must be racist to be asking such questions. (Sun)
Until […]

The Office of Consumer Health Assistance requested to hire a new employee to handle an increasing number of spanish speaking clients. The Governor recommended that they fill their next vacant position with a bilingual employee because the agency’s overall workload does not warrant an increased position.
OCHA is forecasting 4,743 consumer cases in Fiscal 09, the […]

Children all over the world learn English… why shouldn’t ours?
Thanks to a nudge from Sharron Angle, I will have a bill being heard Friday to make English the official language in Nevada.
Here is an article from today’s Investor’s Business Daily on why it makes all the sense in the world.

Opposition to making English our official language tends to devolve quickly into allegations of racism, though in my legislative experience the first people to hurl allegations of racism are themselves racists.
The other interesting thing I’ve noticed since I agreed to carry Sharron Angle’s “English as our Official Language” legislation is that people who don’t speak […]