Issues

Assembly Republicans and Democrats voted identically 88 percent of the time on key bills before the Legislature last year, according to a survey by a Republican activist. With that kind of track record, Brad is the only real choice.

Compare the Candidates

Here are the issues that demonstrate the key differences between the candidates in this election:

Candidate:
Party:
Brad Lee Barnhill
Independent American
Valerie Weber
Rebublican (incumbent)
None known at this time
Democrat
Illegal Aliens:

PROTECT our BORDERS

NO Amnesty/Guest Worker Programs for Illegals

NO Driver’s Licenses for Illegals

NO Social Security Benefits for Illegals

NO Tax Funded Education for Illegals

NO Tax Funded Health Care for Illegals

REVOKE Business Licenses from companies that knowingly hire Illegals

In 2003, Weber was one of 7 members of the Assembly that opposed SB 312, which allows the Matricula Consular (an ID for Mexican illegal aliens) to be used as identification by government agencies in Nevada. It also gave Mexican illegals the ability to use the Matricula Consular to obtain a Nevada Driver’s license. Once an illegal alien gets a driver’s license, he no longer needs his matricula consular. The Matricula Consular, which is issued by the Mexican Consulate in Las Vegas costs only $29. The government and private institutions that accept the matricula consular do so on the assumption that it really does identify the bearer, but there is no assurance of that. The consulates don’t authenticate the documents presented by the Mexicans, don’t do background checks, and have no database network to reject duplicate matriculas to the same person. unknown
Terrorism:

PROTECT our BORDERS

STOP Terrorists at the Border

STOP Criminal Gangs at the Border

STOP 3rd World Diseases at the Border

STOP Illegals from Stealing Our Jobs

    Eighteen of the nineteen terrorists on 9/11 carried state issued driver’s licenses. Parks voted to allow for the Mexican Maticula Consular to be used as ID sufficient for the state to issue a Nevada driver’s license. The matricula consular facilitates illegal entry and residence in the United States and serves as a cover-up for this and other crimes. It is a federal crime under Section 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to encourage an illegal alien to remain illegally in the United States. unknown
    Corporate Influence: ELIMINATE all donations by artificial persons for political campaigns. What? Cut off the Gravy Train? The Republican incumbent is addicted to corporate influence. Time will tell whether the “people” that support the Demodratic challenger are chiefly “artificial.”
    Cut Taxes: RETURN the income generated from 3.5 billion in off-budget funds to the people by eliminating taxes. In 2003, Weber voted for an $833 million tax increase, the largest in Nevada history. The tax increase was so unneeded that in 2005 Gov. Guinn got a “rebate” passed using the DMV registration. unknown

    If elected, I will work to:

    • Stop the Illegal Immigrant Invasion

      The costs to Nevadans and aliens lawfully admitted as permanent resident aliens is far too high. Illegal immigrants reduce the overall wage base and citizens and legal aliens suffer from the depressed wages. RepubliCrats contend that illegals perform jobs that citizens and legal aliens will not take. This is incorrect. Citizens and legal aliens will not take jobs at the depressed level, and I don’t blame them. Illegals pay no federal taxes to support the services that they consume. I do commiserate with employers that have to comply with OSHA regulations, overtime and minimum wage laws, unemployment insurance, disability laws, the Family and Medical Leave act, a slew of oppressive environmental regulations, and 4 million other ways the government has developed to make it extremely expensive to hire legal employees. However, employers are willfully ignoring these laws. We should at least be deducting 31% of the payments to illegal aliens working in Nevada that the Internal Revenue Code requires. While the supreme court might find that Nevadans must bear the cost to educate the children of illegals, Nevadans should work to remove illegals and their families from Nevada so that these costs can be reduced. This is not a race issue as Republicrats contend, this is an issue of law, and Independent Americans support enforcing the current laws. I will refuse to implement guest worker or amnesty programs so long as I sit in the Nevada Assembly.

    • Protect the civil liberties of Nevadans

      I hope that I am not the only one who is concerned about the erosion of our civil liberties in this effort to wage some “War on Terrorism.” First of all, there has been no such war declared by Congress as required by Article I, § 8.10 of the United States Constitution. Because there is no declared war, the President has no authority to call forth the militia in order to fight this “Forever War” that can never be won. I support the immediate withdrawal of all Nevada National Guard or Reserve Units that are stationed anywhere abroad. We need instead to employ these units within Nevada to combat the illegal immigrant invasion that threatens the wage base and services that belong to Nevadans and to legal permanent resident aliens. I declare War on any federal War on Rights that Nevadans hold dear: The right to be free from unreasonable search, the right to be free from having to carry some domestic passport under the guise of a National ID. I support legislation that protects Nevadans from any abuse of the USA/PATRIOT Act, rendering any effect of this Act null and void within the boundaries of Nevada. Nevadans have the ability and incentive to protect Nevada, and I will not stand idly by and have the federal government reduce our rights to a pale shadow based upon some undeclared war that is impossible to win.

    • Eliminate Corporate Political Influence

      Corporations have more influence in politics than you and me. Why is this? Why should we allow “artificial persons” to have any influence at all in the election process? Why would someone raise over $137,000 to campaign for a job that pays only $15,600 per year ($130/day for 120 days) It can only be based upon the influence that comes from these political contributions. So the question becomes: What provision in the state or federal constitution secures the right of artificial persons to have such influence, especially over elections? I propose ending all corporate contributions so that only you and I have any influence over the election process.

    • Restore fiscal responsibility in government at all levels

      Every government in the United States at every level, federal, state and local, keeps two sets of books. Governments thump their chests about the annual budget and the revenues that must be exacted from the people of Nevada to pay for these annual budget services. However, they do not tell you that there is a second set of books known as the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFR). For the state of Nevada, as of 2003, there was a surplus of three and a half billion dollars that is sitting off books, generating revenue while they continue to tax you, instead of returning these surpluses to the people, or at the very least using the income to offset revenues that they tell you are necessary to offset annual budgetary expenditures. Think of it this way: Each of us has two sets of books. We have the annual budget to pay for housing, food, clothing, entertainment, etc. The second set of books represent our savings. The off-budget “savings” held by the state of Nevada amounts to 3.5 billion dollars. Why on earth does the state need all of that money? Why cannot the income generated by those savings be used instead to supplement the revenues “required” by the annual budget? Fiscal reform of these off-budget funds has the potential to eliminate taxes paid by Nevadans. I will work to return these funds to the good people of Nevada.

    • Support sound money

      Everyone has noticed the tremendous increase in the price of gas these past few months. The rise in the price of gas is not attributable to any shortage of oil on the world markets. The price of gas is directly attributable to the printing presses of the federal reserve working night and day to dilute the amount of currency on the market, reducing the buying power and stealing the savings of Nevadans. Gas is not worth more; the currency used to buy the gas is worth less. I would like to point out that a silver dollar in 1963 buys the same amount of goods and services as it does today. We need for the state of Nevada to act to restore the intent of the founders expressed in Article I, § 10 of the United States Constitution: No state shall make any thing but gold or silver coin a tender in the payment of debt. I will work to enact legislation to require a return to sound money policy based upon gold and silver so that the people of Nevada do not have to suffer any further erosion in the buying power of their labor or of the savings that they set aside for their futures.

    I invite you to participate on the discussion of these and other issues on the Forums.