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Sometimes the Barbwire writes itself and reduces your humble scribe to the role of stenographer. Herewith examples of self-satirical moral obtuseness.

JUNGLE JIM'S GENDER GAP. I got an e-mail on Nov. 8 from (I'm not making this up) "Assemblywoman Jim Wheeler," R-Douglas County, Nevada's most high profile if not most intelligent freedom-loving racist. ("I'd vote for slavery if my constituents wanted me to.")

"This district has been a deep red one for a long, long time now. It's a true rural Nevada district and one that thinks a little bit different (sic) than your average big city. Send a message that this campaign is here to fight for your values."

He wants me to send him money so that he can whup them dastardly Democrats.

The Alabaster Bastion's favorite Dastard is apparently having an identity crisis. Either Ms/Mr. Wheeler, his campaign managers, his e-mail program or all of the above are unsure of his/her plumbing. (Plumbing is basically the theme of this column. See below.)

Wheeler is running for state senate in whatever the ledge decides is his new district and just got his shill appointed to the Washoe/Carson senate seat next door. Don Tatro was juiced into office to fill an unexpired term in Nevada's upper house over two eminently qualified candidates.

Mr. Tatro stated he's not interested in running for a full term next year. He may have an identity crisis of ambition and re-think.

Rich white Douglas County is as bedrock moonhowler as most of its fellow Cow Counties with one distinction: It's by far the richest, which makes the Alabaster Bastion doubly dangerous.

See my August/September 2020 series "Machine Guns & Racism in Nevada's Alabaster Bastion" at Barbwire.US/

With Tatro, son of Mr/Ms. Wheeler's longtime legislative secretary, Jungle Jim Wheeler is poised to control 10 percent of the Nevada State Senate for the next 12 years.

If they both make it, Nevada's new lieutenant governor may provide a serious case of karma. Douglas County Democratic Chair Kimi Cole just declared her candidacy for light-guv. If so, she would become Nevada's first transgender officeholder.

Kimi is a very brave person. In Dastardly Douglas, they usually shoot Democrats on site.

Although legislative police and the senate sgt. at arms threw me out of the State Assembly peanut gallery in 2017 for the crime of wearing a hat (turned out they lied, there ain't no such rule), I will be there, fedora and all, when Lt. Gov. Kimi Cole gavels the state senate to order in February, 2023. Just to see the look on Ms. Wheeler's face.

No hard feelings. My column about getting 86'd scored a Nevada Press Association first-place award. (Which, with about six bucks, will get you some foul Starbux caffeine concoction.)

MORE WHITE SPACE. The Zuckerman Empire just renamed Facebook to Meta, as in "I never META white person I didn't like." Trisha Melynkov-Ackerman, who as Patricia Ackerman was the 2020 Democratic nominee for the northern Nevada congressional seat, posted this in ZuckLand: "The whistleblower Frances Haugen has brought the evidence forward that Facebook is toxic and dangerous to well being. What compelled me to make this rare post is this Facebook name change. Meta in Hebrew means 'DEAD'. I find this amusing and even prophetic."

Mrs. Ackerman lives in Douglas County and is a constituent of — drum roll, please — Ms/Mr. Wheeler.

Oy vey.

SPARKS CITY HALL FUNNIES. WHO KNEW? In last week's Trib, the usually staid City Council Meeting Highlights contained a couple of gems about labor pains.

Councilcritters approved a $125k reimbursement to the CIty of Reno for the Rail City's share of a "construction contraction." Call the maternity ward.

You gotta hang around Sparks to appreciate the pain of that one. The council proclaimed this week as "National Apprenticeship Week" and extolled the virtues of apprenticeships as "a pathway to well-paying jobs in the City of Sparks and nationwide."

Well, except if a developer wants City Hall to approve construction with unskilled labor. Sparks long mandated that building within the city required journeyman electricians and plumbers — you know, workers trained thru...drum roll, please...apprenticeship programs.

But when they decided to bulldoze Victorian Square in 2015 so that a developer could turn downtown into rabbit warren apartments, the council, with Mayor Geno Martini and City Attorney Chet Adams' acquiescence, removed the licensing mandates. ("And we didn't even get kissed afterward," Barbwire 12-14-2015 et seq.)

Like I said, sometimes this column just writes itself.

CORPORATE WELFARE UPDATE. Siegel Suites, which owns apartments everywhere, turned the former Sparks Nugget Roof Garden Motel into rentals. They are currently under congressional investigation for wholesale evictions during the pandemic "moratorium."

JACOB MARLEY SCROOGES RENO AGAIN. Former Reno Gazette-Journal reporter Anjeanette Damon just published her first ProPublica investigative report about the predatory Jacobs Entertainment empire which has been bulldozing old motels and evicting poor people. (Great minds think alike. See "Jacob Marley's Freakers Ball @ City Hall," Barbwire 10-20-2021)

Anjeanette's magnum opus will be linked to the web edition of this column at NevadaLabor.com/ The most egregious revelation of the series thus far: Reno City Manager Doug Thornley acting as point man for Jacobs by calling motel owners to pressure them to sell. Some have courageously refused. Somebody needs to file a complaint with the Nevada Ethics Commission.

[UPDATE: Anjeanette, too: What happens to the unfortunates displaced by Jacob Marley's greed? Her stories have been picked up by ThisIsReno.com, The Nevada Current, the Reno Gazette-Journal and many others. Another public relations coup for Nevada.]

NOW, TO BUSINESS. On Sunday morning, a bevy of politicos showed up to picket with striking Teamsters drivers and support staff at the downtown Reno bus station. Special thanks to Assemblymembers Natha Anderson, D-Sparks, Bea Duran, Michelle Gorelow and David Orentlicher, all D-Clark County, Democratic National Committeeman and Assembly District 27 candidate Alex Goff (a member of my union, CWA) and Nevada State AFL-CIO Executive Director Susie Martinez.

The creme-de-la-creme, as always, was Reno Councilmember and mayoral candidate Jenny Brekhus, who biked there. Jenny's the ONLY elected official who has been by the workers' side every step of the way, now well into Strike 3 against the abusive, foreign owned bus mis-managers. Kudos.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, IRA. Thursday, Nov. 18, marks the seventh anniversary of the diminution of the ambition of overt racist Assemblymember Ira Hansen, R-Sparks. [1] He was slated to become speaker of the house in the 2015 legislative session until the Reno-Sparks NAACP (with a little help from me) and the late Hall of Fame ex-Trib reporter Dennis Myers started reminding people of his 17 years of weekly bigotry on the pages of this newspaper.

I started the landslide here, followed later that morning in my commentary on Sam Shad's Nevada Newsmakers TV show, then by Dennis in the Reno News & Review the next day. On Friday, I sent the story worldwide and Ira had to step down. He's never even said thanks that I got him a quarter-page with a photo in The New York Times and a writeup in The Guardian of London and multiple media from Maui to Miami.

He's now a state senator and should fit well with Tatro and Wheeler, especially when the moon's full.

Take care of each other and be careful out there.

¡Sí se puede!

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)
être bien, élever l'enfer (Pardon my French.)
Stammi bene. Scatenare l'inferno. (And Italian.)
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Andrew Quarantino Barbano is a 52-year Nevadan and editor of NevadaLabor.com, SenJoeNeal.org, BallotBoxing.US, ConsumerCoalitionv.com, Rentvolution.org, MIssissippiWestNV.org and CesarChavezNevada.com among others. He is a longtime member of the Reno-Sparks NAACP. As always, his comments are entirely his own. Assemblymember Krasner is also a member of the Reno-Sparks NAACP. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Sparks Tribune since 1988. E-mail <barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us>

[1] I APOLOGIZE TO READERS AND DEMOCRATS FOR MY FREUDIAN TYPO TERMING IRA AS A DEMOCRAT IN THE NOV. 17 PRINT EDITION. It's actually not the first time I've done that. Maybe I have yet to reconcile that, after 17 years on the same editorial page with him, how can such an intelligent man be such a moonhowler? Apparently, he really and truly believes the piffle he promulgates. We even agree on at least one issue: It's just flat wrong to skim taxpayer money to hand corporate welfare to wealthy individuals and corporations. Mea culpa and may enlightenment illuminate your path.

Strike 3: Washoe transit workers walk off again
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 11-9 & 11-10-2021 / Expansions in blue

Because this paper will hit the press in the wee hours of Tuesday, the Tribune will scoop most of the western world about the transit strike that's going to hit today.

Just before deadline on Monday, almost all unionized employees of the Washoe bus system voted down the foreign contractor/employer's deal with 9 out of 10 workers voting no.

The foreign contractor wanted the workers to take a three-year pay cut by voting for a below-inflation pay "raise." See you on the picket lines, dudes.

The blame lies squarely with the taxpayer-paid officials who always pull a Pontius Pilate and walk away. Contact and order them to protect the health, safety and livelihoods of their constituents. These bus bosses have refused to enforce mask mandates for two years. Dozens of workers and passengers have been sickened.

"This superspreader corporate virus has infected this community far too long in too many ways," Teamsters Union Local 533 President Gary Watson said.

"Keolis has been operating with a blank check authorized by RTC Executive Director Bill Thomas <bthomas@rtcwashoe.com>, which they kept secret until a few months ago," Watson added. "Their contract calls for substantial cash penalties for not providing service. For instance, $1,000 daily for every cancelled route. Acting on his own, Mr. Thomas secretly waived all penalties. How many people would hold their jobs if they didn't show up for work? Keolis can go fishing and still get paid. And they do, every day — at the expense of passengers, workers and taxpayers.

"We ask residents and transit system users to contact the responsible taxpayer-paid officials and order them to protect the health, safety and livelihoods of their constituents,. This superspreader corporate virus has infected this community far too long in too many ways," Watson concluded.

RTC Washoe Contact Information

The Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County is comprised of Sparks Mayor Ed Lawson (R), Washoe County Commissioners Vaughn Hartung (R) and Bob Lucey (R); Reno City Councilmembers Oscar Delgado (D) and Neoma Jardon, (R), board chair. RTC board e-mail <rtcpubliccomments@rtcwashoe.com>

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delgadoo@reno.gov (Reno Councilmember Oscar Delgado-D),
vhartung@washoecounty.us (Washoe County Commissioner Vaughn Hartung-R),
jardonn@reno.gov (Reno Councilmember/RTC Chair Neoma Jardon-R),
elawson@cityofsparks.us (Sparks Mayor Ed Lawson-R),
blucey@washoecounty.us (County Commissioner Bob Lucey-R),
bthomas@rtcwashoe.com (RTC Executive Director Bill Thomas),
rtcpubliccomments@rtcwashoe.com (RTC board e-mail),

The United Labor Agency of Nevada has helped arrange a strike fund. Please send checks to United Labor Agency of Nevada, 1201 N. Decatur Blvd. Suite 106,
Las Vegas, NV 89108; Attn: Teamsters Keolis Strike.

HELP THE STRIKERS. PLEASE DONATE TO THE STRIKE FUND Online

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The Teamsters International Union has launched a new website in support of Keolis workers in Nevada, nationwide and worldwide: French4Failure.com/

BARBWIRE DINGBATS. As many of you know, my Italian fantasy Machine Gun Michele Fiori, R-Gomorrah South, is running for governor. She has now joined Assemblymember Jill Dickman, R-Sparks, in pimping anti-masking as a fundraising tool. In a fundraising appeal to lesser lights, Ms. Dickman, just touted that she was kicked off the Assembly floor for playing Superspreader. She may not know it, be we are kindred. I got kicked out because someone told a lie to security that males could not wear hats in the gallery. Won the Barbwire a first-place Nevada Press Association honor. I don't think Ms. Dickman's gonna score any honors but many misbegotten miscreants will send her their hard-earned money.

Hey, the sky is falling! Haven't you heard? Speaking of fall guys...

WHEELING AND DEALING. Am I psychic or what? Last week's column, which I sent to the newspaper on Monday, Nov. 1, accurately predicted that someone would want to give a Nevada Senate seat to a seat-warmer. Faith & begorrah, Washoe County Commission Chairman Bob Lucey advocated exactly that on TV-4/TV-11 on Tuesday, Nov. 2, in an interview with reporter Ben Margiott.

Mr. Lucey said he favors a "placeholder until the 2022 election" as Washoe County's next state senator. Huh? A placeholder is somebody who takes your place in line to get concert tickets.

This isn't a buffet line and Nevada doesn't need a placeholder. We need a senator. A placeholder who has sworn not to seek election has no accountability to the public for the next year and will never have to face the voters. The new senator will have to hit the ground running not only at the redistricting special session which starts Friday but also by serving on important interim committees which will require participation in and reporting to the 2023 legislative session.

It is a sophistry upon the public to assert that whomever is chosen must commit to not seek election to a full term next year. That's a constitutional right and constitutional rights cannot be waived just to become a placeholder. It's rather morally obtuse to promise to waive a constitutional right when you can't be legally bound by the promise anyway.

I correctly called the two frontrunners. Long-retired three-term (1974-1980) Assemblymember Bob Weise, R-Washoe Valley, is now a Carson City resident. His home address won the non-binding support of Capital City officialdom last week.

Assemblymember Lisa Krasner, R-Reno, announced for the senate before Sen. Ben Kieckhefer, R-Reno, resigned to join the Nevada Gaming Commission.

They go into Tuesday's Washoe County Commission vote as the favorites. (The new senator who will fill the vacancy will be chosen Wednesday.) This paper will hit the streets as the selection process is underway. Stay tuned to NevadaLabor.com/

UPDATE: 2:08 P.M. PST 9 NOV. 2021— Wheeler's boy wins 4-1. Only Commissioner Jeanne Herman, who supported Melissa Clement, went against the grain in the first balloting. Commissioners Lucey, Hartung, Jung and Hill supported Don Tatro, son of Mr. Wheeler's longtime legislative secretary. The final vote was unanimous for Mr. Tatro. Because state law makes Washoe's vote pre-eminent based on population, Mr. Tatro can now start calling himself senator. Cowabunga.

I warned last week that flaming racist Jim "I'd vote for slavery if my constituents wanted me to" Wheeler, D-Douglas County, put his secretary's son into the race.

His name is Don Tatro, a Reno resident from an old Carson family. Nevada politics can be so incestuous.

Wheeler is running for senate in his Alabaster Bastion bailiwick and controlling the Carson-Washoe senator next door will make this troll mega-powerful for the next dozen years.

Stay tuned. Be very afraid.

Take care of each other and be careful out there.

¡Sí se puede!

Pitchforks, torches, mensches, tar & feathers
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 11-3-2021
Updated 11-4 & 11-9-2021 GMT / Expansions in blue

BREAKING NEWS: Am I psychic or what? The following column, which I sent to the newspaper on Monday, Nov. 1, accurately predicted that someone would want to give a vacant Nevada Senate seat to a seat-warmer. Faith & begorrah, Washoe County Commission Chairman Bob Lucey advocated exactly that on TV-4/TV-11 the very next day, Tuesday, Nov. 2, in an interview with reporter Ben Margiott.

Mr. Lucey said he favors a "placeholder until the 2022 election" as Washoe County's next state senator. Huh? A placeholder is somebody who takes your place in line to get concert tickets.

This isn't a buffet line and Nevada doesn't need a placeholder. We need a senator. A placeholder who has sworn not to seek election has no accountability to the public for the next year and will never have to face the voters. The new senator will have to hit the ground running not only at the imminent special session but also by serving on important interim committees which will require participation in, and reporting to, the 2023 legislative session.

It is a sophistry upon the public to assert that whomever is chosen must commit to not seek election to a full term next year. That's a constitutional right and constitutional rights cannot be waived just to become a placeholder. It's rather morally obtuse to promise to waive a constitutional right when you can't be legally bound by the promise anyway.

Placeholders need not apply. Now to my Monday prediction and more important matters facing 10 public officials, from today's Sparks Tribune:

Moonhowlers on Steroids

If you'd like to see Assemblyman Jim Wheeler controlling 10 percent of the Nevada State Senate for the next dozen years, your fondest dreams are a major step closer to coming true. (OK, so it's not quite 10 percent, just 9.52381, two senators out of 21. But hey, we're talking government where rounding off is an art form.)

Mr. Wheeler, R-Douglas/Lyon/Storey, gained international infamy in 2013 by stating he'd vote for slavery if his constituents wanted him to do so. He's now running for state senate.

UPDATE: 2:08 P.M. PST 9 NOV. 2021— Wheeler's boy wins 4-1. Only Commissioner Jeanne Herman, who supported Melissa Clement, went against the grain in the first balloting. Commissioners Lucey, Hartung, Jung and Hill supported Don Tatro, son of Mr. Wheeler's longtime legislative secretary. The final vote was unanimous for Mr. Tatro. Because state law makes Washoe's vote pre-eminent based on population, Mr. Tatro can now start calling himself senator. Cowabunga.

He said he was just kidding when he found that his remarks to a small Storey County gathering went viral on YouTube.

Many, including Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval, apparently didn't get the joke. Stephen Colbert and a whole lotta national media certainly found a lot of material with that new installment in a long line of dubious Silver State public relations coups.

Didn't hurt Jim politically. He ran unopposed in 2016 and got elected head of the Assembly Republican Caucus for the 2017 legislative session.

The Alabaster Bastion which he calls home has always been quite forgiving of political anachronisms.

Former Nevada Assembly Speaker and State Senator Lawrence "Jake" Jacobsen (1921-2006), R-Gardnerville, had a real talent for saying the wrong thing.

In 1980, when asked by a visiting delegation from Africa about why there were so few black people in northern Nevada, Jake matter-of-factly stated "it's too cold for them up here."

Nevada's greatest lawmaker, African-American Sen. Joe Neal, D-North Las Vegas, was quite forgiving. My friend Joe (1935-2020) was a mensch with a great sense of humor and irony.

"I like Jake," he said. But that didn't stop Joe from lampooning him in the 1981 "Third House" lawmakers' roast. (I was there and sat near Jake. He smiled and laughed and took the barbs like a gentleman.)

Jake was a nice guy, just a man out of his time. He had no malice in him. Can't say the same for Mr. Wheeler.

Republican Sen. James Settelmeyer, who now holds the seat in the current version of Jake's district, is term limited. Wheeler has announced his candidacy for it .

But one seat's not enough. He also has designs on controlling the seat next door. He has already found a MAGA moonhowler to run and also has an ante into the current round of replacement roulette.

Term-limited Sen. Ben Kieckhefer. R-Washoe/Carson, just resigned to accept a seat on the Nevada Gaming Commission. The Carson City Board of Supervisors and the Washoe County Commission will caucus to name a successor who will hold the seat through next year's general election.

Assemblymember Lisa Krasner, R-Reno, announced for the senate before Kieckhefer resigned.

Wheeler's like another flaming racist, Democratic President Andrew Jackson. (Why-oh-why did the only presidents named Andrew have to be such moonhowlers?)

Jackson, like his biggest fan Donald Trump, made everything personal. He destroyed the Bank of the United States, which crippled the U.S. economy for decades afterward, because the bank had once refused him a loan for his slave plantation.

Wheeler was flamingly miffed when Assemblymember Dr. Robin Titus, R-Churchill/Lyon, beat him for minority leader in this year's session. (She will run against him for senate.)

UPDATE: 2:08 P.M. PST 9 NOV. 2021— Wheeler's boy wins 4-1. Only Commissioner Jeanne Herman, who supported Melissa Clement, went against the grain in the first balloting. Commissioners Lucey, Hartung, Jung and Hill supported Don Tatro, son of Mr. Wheeler's longtime legislative secretary. The final vote was unanimous for Mr. Tatro. Because state law makes Washoe's vote pre-eminent based on population, Mr. Tatro can now start calling himself senator. Cowabunga.

Mrs. Krasner supported Dr. Titus so Mr. Wheeler wants his revenge. His MAGA moonhowler is apparently so unqualified that she did not dare apply to fill out the remainder of Kieckhefer's term. So Wheeler (I am not making this up) had the son of his longtime legislative secretary apply.

The lucky 13 applicants will be interviewed by the Carson pols on November 4 and the Washoeites on Nov. 9. (Contact info below.) They will meet jointly to select a senator on Nov. 10. (Kieckhefer's replacement must be of the same party under state law.)

Mrs. Krasner's most likely competition is a surprise, long-retired three-term (1974-1980) Assemblymember Bob Weise, R-Washoe Valley, who served as minority leader in his time. Bob and his wife, the former Cathy Jo Valenta (formerly a lawyer with the Legislative Counsel Bureau), are great Nevadans. But this is not their time.

One trap I hope the 10 pols don't fall into is that of the caretaker, someone who swears that she or he will not seek election to the seat next year. [[UPDATE: EXACTLY THAT HAS HAPPENED.]]

Whomever they choose will not only serve in the upcoming special session on reapportionment, but also on important interim legislative study committees.

Mrs. Krasner is the only applicant who knows the territory after three terms in the lower house. She holds a law degree, teaches at Truckee Meadows Community College, and is the mother of two college age sons (one at UNR, the other at her alma mater, UCLA). She married a candidate for sainthood. Dr. Charles Krasner is an infectious disease specialist in this time of plague.

Mrs. Krasner's record is one of strong principle with a bi-partisan approach. In 2019, with Sen. Patricia Spearman, D-North Las Vegas, she co-sponsored three bills, now state law, protecting womens' rights in the areas of domestic violence, rape and sex trafficking.

In her freshman session in 2017, she sponsored Assembly Bill 145 which extended from 10 years to 20 (from the time a child turns 18), that someone sexually abused as a minor may sue for damages. She garnered national attention for her work and Congress passed a similar law shortly thereafter. Legendary human rights attorney Gloria Allred flew to Nevada to support the legislation.

Mrs. Krasner's bill was co-sponsored by 16 colleagues of both parties, including Ben Kieckhefer and (drum roll, please...) Jim Wheeler hisself before he got so mad.

You will find a link to the Carson government website containing the applications of all 13 hopefuls with the expanded web edition of this column at NevadaLabor.com/

Take the time to review, then contact your representatives. This is important.

If Wheeler prevails now and in 2022, he becomes scarily powerful for the next 13 years.

The High Desert Outback of the American Dream is infamous enough.

Take care of each other and be careful out there.