Charges must be filed against State Senator Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers and and former fake Republican County Councilor John Blom

Politics, as those of us involved in it will tell you, is a filthy business.

As a decades long victim of the "cancel culture," I can certainly attest to it.

A couple of days ago, John Ley, candidate for the Senate seat in the 18th District, posted the details of several text messages, alleged to have come from incumbent Senator Ann Rivers' husband... though, based on years of editing her speeches back when Rivers was a Republican, I have my doubts as to HIS authorship.

Details of these text messages can be found here on Clark County Today, as well as on Ley's campaign website. Screen captures of the actual tirade are on the lower part of this web page.

And now, as if that isn't bad enough, allegations of campaign impropriety that reaches the criminal.

Allegations against corrupt incumbents Senator Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers and former fake Republican John Blom

The regular political reader knows, beginning back in 2015, Gas Tax Rivers dropped her pretense of being a Republican and voted with democrats to betray her district and Clark County by supporting the largest gas tax and tab fee increases in this state's history in direct betrayal of her campaign pledges, used to get elected to the Senate, to oppose BOTH increases.

River's Campaign Pledge to oppose gas tax and tab fee increases.

She later claimed that she did it because it was a "business decision" and her only regret was about having made the pledge in the first place.



(As always, thanks to Brent Boger for making this what he believed to be surreptitious recording and Lew Waters for posting it.)

Well, these allegations appear to support the idea that she makes a wide variety of "business decisions" and many of them wind up benefiting her.

Her list of outrages didn't end there:

Rivers voted to end court-mandated legislative transparency based on the initiative passed by the people of this state in an underhanded effort to keep the people from looking into her practices as a Senator.  She also voted for the McCleary budget which caused our property taxes to explode. She actually co-sponsored a moronic democrat fringe-left bill that requires corporate boards in this state to actually be made up of a minimum of 25% women, or of those who IDENTIFY as women.

That's right; they don't actually have to BE women.  They just have to SAY they're women.  And how idiotic is that?

And, of course, she lied on her PDC's about the amount of money she had in her campaign account by well over $150,000.

While that goes to a pattern of lies and deceit, she's now appearing to engage in pay-to-play.

These allegations, which appear to be quite legitimate, are violations of CRIMINAL law, which, based on her increasing pattern of dishonesty and deceit appear to be the inevitable outcome for an arrogant liar who refuses to be held accountable for her betrayal of her district and the people of Clark County, who have to cough up $700 million in her gas tax and tab fee scam alone.

Rivers and Blom are two of the slimiest political creatures this blogger has ever seen or heard of.  It appears that both of them are guilty of attempted bribery, extortion and trading in special influence.

Those charges should be filed against both Rivers and Blom as soon as possible.  There is zero percentage in waiting.