Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada once said that he envied Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Did Sandoval really want to put up with the massive protests, death threats, and recall election? “I’d take it,” he said, according to an account in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “if I could have Republican majorities in the Nevada legislature.”
Only a conservative governor who wants to push ambitious reforms would say such a thing — and last November, Sandoval got his wish. To the surprise of just about everyone, his fellow Republicans captured both chambers of Nevada’s statehouse. So when Sandoval gave his state-of-the-state address in January, the GOP controlled the executive and legislative branches in Carson City for the first time since the 1920s. “We stand at a unique moment in time,” he said. “Tonight we begin writing the next chapter.”
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