Conservative Jumps Into City Council Special Election

Could Las Vegas be on the verge of doubling the number of conservatives on the City Council?

After failing once to get enough signatures on the ballot to recall City Councilman Steve Ross, a group led by a local car dealer succeeded in their second attempt to force a recall election. For a while it looked like the choice in that election was going to come down to either re-electing Ross, a former union boss and current Big Labor handmaiden, and the even-more liberal Byron Goynes.

That may have changed this weekend when small businessperson Suzette LaGrange-Miranda decided to throw her hat into the ring. In order to get on the ballot, however, she needs get over a thousand signatures from registered voters in Ward 6 on ballot petitions and has less than three full days to do it. LaGrange is organizing petition walks to gather the necessary signatures for her candidacy.

Even though the Las Vegas City Council offices are officially non-partisan that is true only nominally and everyone knows the party affiliations of the members. Generally, their voting records reflect these as well. There is only one Republican on the Council, Stavros Anthony, and we need to get a conservative option on the ballot for Ward 6.