Nevada: Special Session

So Sunday evening rolls around and I sit down to watch Gov. Jim Gibbons and Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley give their dueling live television addresses regarding the Nevada's budget crisis. Instead of watching the governor bumble for 10 minutes with a retort by Buckley, my screen was filled with promises that I could buy a home for $187.24 with no monthly payments.

CARSON CITY - At the request of Gov. Jim Gibbons, the Economic Forum is meeting today to come up with a projection for the state's budget shortfall.  The forum is examining projections on a dozen different revenue sources from the legislative counsel bureau, the budget division and the various governmental agencies that oversee revenue collection.

LAS VEGAS - State Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio (R-Reno) called Wednesday for Democratic legislators to work with him to come up with a consensus proposal to fix the state's budget shortfall.

"I have asked the Democrats in both the Assembly and the Senate," said Raggio. "I want to work with them-we want to work with them to make this an apolitical session. It should be a short session. It should be dealing with how we deal with whatever the number is and not be a partisan fight."

[img_assist|nid=1878|title=From left:Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley (D-Las Vegas), state Sen. Bob Beers (R-Las Vegas), state Sen. Joe Heck (R-Henderson).|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=421|height=153]LAS VEGAS - Perhaps the biggest irony of Gov. Jim Gibbons' call for a special session of the legislature June 23 is that he could potentially be providing a golden opportunity for the politician who could defeat him in 2010.