If you have not received your sample ballot, press the panic button and call the Washoe registrar of voters at (775) 328-3670. NOW.

Nevada Republican Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske has employed Kansas SOS Chris Kobach's bounced-postcard disqualification scam. Cegavske was the queen of voter suppression when she served in the state senate. She has not changed.
International investigative journalist Greg Palast reports that 90,000 Nevadans have had their registrations nuked because Cegavske used Kobach's horrendously flawed database. Great way to keep blacks, browns and seniors from voting. Cegavske is in serious need of purging by Democrat Nelson Araujo.
BALLOT BOXING. As usual, some readers have demonstrated very questionable judgment asking me for guidance. Here are pointers upon which I will greatly expand at NevadaLabor.com/
BALLOT QUESTIONS:

TIGHT RACES: I'm supporting non-partisan Heidi Howe for sheriff against Republican Darin Balaam whose principal qualification is that his daddy held the job for one term. Go to KTVN.com, watch their recent debate and judge for yourself. They also appeared on Old Tales of Nevada last Sunday. URL with this column at NevadaLabor.com/
BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS ME. Organized labor mistakenly endorsed two Republicans, Balaam and school board candidate Andrew Caudill.*
Caudill can't have it both ways, telling unions what they want to hear then doing the same with Sharron Angle's hyper-conservative Nevada Republican Assembly outfit which is both anti-union and anti-public education. (I have written about them since 1998. Archive will be linked to this column.)
Caudill's opponent is incumbent Dr. Debra Feemster, an old friend and my only professional relationship in this election. She has paid me a total of $1,000 over the past two years to maintain her website and occasionally consult. This is no contest where qualifications are concerned. Mr. Caudill is a recent UNR grad and assistant to the athletic director.
As with Mr. Balaam, he is beloved of the jockocracy and the good ole boys. In the school board at-large race, novice Jacqueline Calvert is worth the nod over education destroyer Jeff Church,* another Angle acolyte. The mercurial Ms. Angle's outfit also supports County Commissioner Kitty Jung's opponent.
The complete list of Angle's moonhowlers will be linked to this column at NevadaLabor.com/ See http://nevadalabor.com/barbwire/angle.html
STATE ASSEMBLY. If I lived in his district, I'd vote for my old friend and union brother Richard "Skip" Daly, D-Sparks. His perennial opponent Jill Dickman* is likewise an Angle re-run.
FOUR HORSEMEN. The Rail City version of the Addams Family has fielded four candidates in various races, most prominently former Tribune columnist Ira Hansen,* an overt racist. You will find my huge archive of smoking gun proof linked to the web edition of this column at NevadaLabor.com/ See http://ballotboxing.us/ira.html
STATEWIDE. I've worked for and supported a few good Republicans in my checkered 50-year career. Not this year. Although the top of the ticket is somewhat weaker than it could have been, lower office candidates Clint Koble, Kate Marshall, Aaron Ford, Catherine Byrne, Zack Conine and Araujo are worth consideration.
PROPS. Washoe Assessor Mike Clark* is a charlatan, winning election in 2014 by strongly hinting that he could cut property taxes. No assessor can (unless he's willing to doctor phony property assessments understating market value, thus risking serious jail time). Support Chip Evans.
SUING: Sean Laughlin's 18-day wrongful imprisonment in Lyon and Nye counties caused him to lose his career as a cruise ship entertainer. He's represented by Terri Keyser-Cooper, well known to Sparks and Yerington city halls. She recently dismantled the Lyon County School District and Yerington PD (see Mississippi West at right—>) in federal court for overt, endemic racism. Laughlin is the son of Nevada talk radio legend and Tribune columnist Travus T. Hipp (1937-2012).
SWAN SONG. This year not only brought my 30th anniversary with the Tribune but also Dr. Martina Young's 30th in Nevada. I'm not going anywhere, but the internationally recognized ballerina, choreographer, author and educator presents her last Nevada work this Thursday. She then tiptoes into the sunset toward Italia or perhaps Australia. (Aussies need all the cultural help they can get.)
"Black Swans, An Opera Poem" with Young and six interdisciplinary artists has its last performance at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18 at Riverside Artist Loft 502 in downtown Reno. Limited seating. Tickets: $64 at APoeticBody.com/updates/
[10-16 BARBWIRE PREVIEW ONLY: A performance is also scheduled for Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m.]
SWAN SONGS SUNG. Died: Union legend Stanley P. Jones, 95, former Nevada labor commissioner under Govs. Laxalt-R and O'Callaghan-D, and 2011 César Chávez NevadaLabor.com Hall of Famer. Details as they arrive at NevadaLabor.com...Paul Allen, 65, co-founder of Microsoft who acquired northern Nevada cable systems when he formed the unlamented Charter Communications, now Spectrum...Jamal Khashoggi, 59, employment terminated with extreme prejudice by the Saudi royal family in Istanbul, Turkey. Anybody know if he was related to wealthy movie producer and arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi (1935-2017) who resided in a Lake Tahoe mansion for many years? Adnan and former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos were acquitted of racketeering and fraud by a Manhattan federal jury in 1990.
Khashoggi is now a frontrunner for the most prestigious prize in journalism, the George Polk Award, named after the US journalist murdered in 1948 while covering the Greek Civil War.
[10-17 UPDATE: Jamal Khashoggi was indeed related. He was Adnan's nephew although he did not share in his late uncle's wealth. (New York Times national print edition 10-15-2018 page A8) I had not read the 10-15 edition before the Tribune went to bed. So there is indeed a Nevada hook to the Jamal Khashoggi murder story.]
Be well. Raise hell.  Esté bien. Haga infierno.
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* Endorsed by Sharron Angle's organization

Be well. Raise hell.

Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.) / être bien, élever l'enfer (And my French.) / Stammi bene. Scatenare l'inferno. (And Italian.)
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Andrew Barbano is a 50-year Nevadan, executive producer of Nevada's annual César Chávez Day celebration, first vice-president and political action chair of the Reno-Sparks NAACP, labor/consumer/civil rights advocate, member of Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO and editor of NevadaLabor.com and BallotBoxing.US and SenJoeNeal.org and DoctorLawyerWatch.com/ As always, his opinions are strictly his own. E-mail barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Sparks Tribune since 1988 and received its ninth Nevada Press Association award and 6th first-place at the 29 Sept. 2018 NPA annual convention in Las Vegas. (That trophy and about six bucks will get you a Latte Mocha Cotsafracas Chingade at just about any Starbux worldwide, guaranteed.)

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