For the past 5 years, Sen. Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers has tilted steadily left while "representing" the 18th District.
Among her other accomplishments has been to lie about her opposition to the largest gas tax and tab fee increases in the history of this state, increases that cost the people of Clark County $700 million; her bungling of the sellout on the McCleary budget scam that cost us... and will cost us, 10's of billions of dollars among others.
To that list, we can add this particular idiocy, SB6037, Corporate Board Gender Diversity.
Rivers has come up with the perfect excuse for supporting the same bill that Nancy Pelosi wanted to ram down America's throats as part of her stimulus package extortion yesterday: Go to the 17:20 mark.
When asked to remove her cosponsorship of this insanity, she responded thusly:
The reality is this is government forcing their view down the throats of company's ownership and direction based not on gender alone, but by those who IDENTIFY as women.
9 must have a gender-diverse board of directors or that public company
10 must comply with the requirements in subsection (2) of this section.
11 For purposes of this section, a public company is deemed to have a
12 gender-diverse board of directors if, for at least two hundred
13 seventy days of the fiscal year preceding the applicable annual14 meeting of shareholders, individuals who self-identify as women
15 comprised at least twenty-five percent of the directors serving on
16 the board of directors.
So, you don't actually have to BE a woman... you just have to SAY you're a woman.
Seriously.
No Republican should EVER support increasing government authority, particularly of this leftist affirmative action ilk.
And, of course, the idiocy of claiming "While I don't agree with the premise of the bill, these important changes were necessary and in order to get them I had to vote for the bill."
Think about this for a minute. It's a cute response in an effort to try and justify her leftist bent. Kinda like Herrera's justification for voting to continue Obamacare.
Using this reasoning, Rivers can effectively ALWAYS vote like a democrat.
Using this reasoning, she can cosponsor ANY democrat bill.
Even though I don't agree with the premise of the bill, these important changes were necessary and in order to get them I had to vote for the bill.Why, I had to do X, because my mere presence as a cosponsor made this bad bill better, and I had to vote for it or ALL of the changes (which wouldn't have happened if *I* hadn't cosponsored and voted for this bill) or else...…"
Or else what?
Rivers pulled this same scam to justify our betrayal on the gas tax she had pledged to oppose:
See the pattern?
Now she has formulized her incessant betrayals on the bills that matter. Slowly but surely, she gnaws away at our paychecks, while blowing up property taxes and attacking our rights.
She never makes a mistake that she admits to. She always finds excuses as she did above... when she blamed her "political naivete'" for making a pledge to get elected that she had no intention of keeping... a "political naivete'" after having served on legislative staff in the Alaska for years and having been a political consultant, state representative and state senator for at least 12 years.
It will never change as long as she's in office. And it's long past time for her to go.
Among her other accomplishments has been to lie about her opposition to the largest gas tax and tab fee increases in the history of this state, increases that cost the people of Clark County $700 million; her bungling of the sellout on the McCleary budget scam that cost us... and will cost us, 10's of billions of dollars among others.
To that list, we can add this particular idiocy, SB6037, Corporate Board Gender Diversity.
Rivers has come up with the perfect excuse for supporting the same bill that Nancy Pelosi wanted to ram down America's throats as part of her stimulus package extortion yesterday: Go to the 17:20 mark.
When asked to remove her cosponsorship of this insanity, she responded thusly:
thank you for sharing your concerns with me regarding SB 6037. I supported this bill because of the changes made to it. Previously, it imposed financial fines on companies that did not have female representation and it applied to all companies in our state. From the minority side, in order to make changes to the bill, we needed to support it. In the final version, we got the fines replaced by a simple statement explaining why women weren't on the board. We also got it applied to just publicly traded companies, which greatly reduced the number of businesses this applies to. The businesses still covered are fairly large corporations that either already meet these requirements or can easily explain why, if they do not. While I don't agree with the premise of the bill, these important changes were necessary and in order to get them I had to vote for the bill. While[sic] might not agree on this issue, I am sure there are many others that we stand shoulder to shoulder on. Thanks again for reaching out!Besides the obvious: there never was a reason to support this bill, period, fines or no, Rivers co-sponsorship of this bill made zero difference except to cement her leftist cred.
The reality is this is government forcing their view down the throats of company's ownership and direction based not on gender alone, but by those who IDENTIFY as women.
9 must have a gender-diverse board of directors or that public company
10 must comply with the requirements in subsection (2) of this section.
11 For purposes of this section, a public company is deemed to have a
12 gender-diverse board of directors if, for at least two hundred
13 seventy days of the fiscal year preceding the applicable annual14 meeting of shareholders, individuals who self-identify as women
15 comprised at least twenty-five percent of the directors serving on
16 the board of directors.
So, you don't actually have to BE a woman... you just have to SAY you're a woman.
Seriously.
No Republican should EVER support increasing government authority, particularly of this leftist affirmative action ilk.
And, of course, the idiocy of claiming "While I don't agree with the premise of the bill, these important changes were necessary and in order to get them I had to vote for the bill."
Think about this for a minute. It's a cute response in an effort to try and justify her leftist bent. Kinda like Herrera's justification for voting to continue Obamacare.
Using this reasoning, Rivers can effectively ALWAYS vote like a democrat.
Using this reasoning, she can cosponsor ANY democrat bill.
Even though I don't agree with the premise of the bill, these important changes were necessary and in order to get them I had to vote for the bill.Why, I had to do X, because my mere presence as a cosponsor made this bad bill better, and I had to vote for it or ALL of the changes (which wouldn't have happened if *I* hadn't cosponsored and voted for this bill) or else...…"
Or else what?
Rivers pulled this same scam to justify our betrayal on the gas tax she had pledged to oppose:
See the pattern?
Now she has formulized her incessant betrayals on the bills that matter. Slowly but surely, she gnaws away at our paychecks, while blowing up property taxes and attacking our rights.
She never makes a mistake that she admits to. She always finds excuses as she did above... when she blamed her "political naivete'" for making a pledge to get elected that she had no intention of keeping... a "political naivete'" after having served on legislative staff in the Alaska for years and having been a political consultant, state representative and state senator for at least 12 years.
It will never change as long as she's in office. And it's long past time for her to go.
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