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Posted At : December 2, 2008 01:11 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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Not former Assemblyman Bob Beers (R), unfortunately, but someone nearly as likely to pose awkward questions at Nevada Gaming Control Board hearings -- outgoing and less-hirsute state Sen. Bob Beers (R). The latter Beers has stirred the rightful ire of casino workers in the past but chances are bring some welcome skepticism to a body that's shown excessive go-with-the-flow tendencies of late. If he lives up to his potential, Beers could be the second coming of Bobby Siller. If he lives down to his potential ... see below.
In defense of the Control Board's latter-day propensity to tiptoe around licensing rules to avoid having to conduct investigations, it should be noted that -- according NGCB Chairman Dennis Neilander -- it's still working with a 1991-size staff. Do we have a 1991-sized casino industry in Nevada? Not the last time I looked out my window. And, given the ongoing demolition of the state budget, a 15-years-out-of-date NGCB budget might start looking good.
And there's the rub of a Beers appointment, especially if one proviso thereof is that Neilander relinquish his chairmanship. (He's had one near-death experience at the hands of Gov. "Midnight Jim" Gibbons already.) Beers is one of those Grover Norquist-type conservatives who get all hot and bothered by the notion of shrinking the size of guvmint, regardless of rhyme or reason. If Neilander is being eased aside for someone who will be more complaisant as Midnight Jim dismantles Nevada's regulatory apparatus -- or at least shrinks it to the size where Sheldon Adelson can drown it in a bathtub -- then his appointment would be nothing short of a disaster.
So would Beers be installed to regulate -- or to effectively neuter Nevada's regulatory capacity? Unfortunately, knowing whether to applaud or oppose this mooted appointment requires the foreknowledge of a Nostradamus.
I guess Beers didn't get the memo that I and others voted him out because we don't want him in politics, not because we wanted to give him a different chair. It's nice that he has a spine, but so do other people who aren't libertarian bootstraps types.
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