S.B. 41 - Nevada public employees about to get hit by Wisconsin shit-storm
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 22:14 Nevada public employees had better get their umbrellas out, it was only a matter of time before the nastiness in Wisconsin slopped over into Nevada. Click on the image below, and you’ll be reading the pdf of S.B. 41 - the Sandoval Ghost Bill - in seconds.
And stay tuned, since the timing of this bill is leaving bloggers and others scratching their heads. Gov. Sandoval told the media he didn’t have such a bill as this. Yet … yet, it seemed to have been there all the while. Gosh, maybe it got lost in all the giddyness of being the new governor.
The Sausage Factory poses one possibility:
“You have to wonder why our press corps intentionally led the public to believe our governor was staying away from the collective bargaining fight while at the same time that same governor had requested a bill that would essentially do away with with those bargaining rights.
Maybe if SB41 included something about prostitutes they would have noticed”
Readers may want to look at observations about SB 41 on Nevada State Employee Focus.
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Reader Comments (2)
SB 41 is a dubious legacy of the Gibbons Administration, which because of rules adopted for the introduction of pre-filed bills gets into the hopper and sent to the Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections. From whence it may never be seen again because of the composition of the committee. According to two good sources, Governor Sandoval is not supporting the measure, thus we'll likely see it again only in some archives.
The head scratching part has been pretty well explained, however the question remains IF some bill like this ever got to the Governor's desk -- Would he sign it?
Regardless of whether this bill makes it, in his letter to the district superintendents, he makes it clear that he wants to do things such as end teacher tenure and eliminate seniority, so it will be interesting to see what else he puts into that suggested piece of legislation. Those are two things that the unions fought hard for, and the elimination of them will not be "temporary."
And yes, if SB 41 made it to his desk, I have no doubt he'd sign it.