By BOBBIE GREEN
The Progress
The Mesquite Republican Women hosted two special guests at its January meeting held at the Mesquite Veterans Center on Wednesday, Jan. 12. A full house audience showed up to meet and greet Captain Sam Brown, running for Catherine Cortez-Masto’s U.S. Senate seat, and Joey Gilbert, candidate for Nevada Governor.
Joey Gilbert is a lawyer based in Reno Nevada, with an eleven-year-old-daughter. Many know him from his past as a renown boxer in Nevada.
“I fought for myself for ten years and now I want to fight for my fellow Nevadans,” Gilbert likes to say.
The energetic Gilbert fast-paced the audience with the six top reasons why he is running for Governor. These include ensuring election integrity, stopping the COVID mandate “insanity”, fixing Nevada Schools poor nationwide showing, reducing crime and protecting law and order, and fixing Nevada’s economy.
On the subject of toning down COVID mandates, Gilbert talked about effects on kids in school. “A lesser-known fact about myself is that I am on the Board of Directors of America’s Front Line Doctors,” Gilbert said. “I am defiantly against children being masked all day in school.”
Gilbert has sued Governor Sisolak three times he won the third time getting the Churches in Nevada reopened just before Christmas in 2020.
Gilbert told the audience that incumbent Governor Steve Sisolak did not protect working class people through the pandemic. “He let box stores stay open while shutting down mom and pop businesses,” he said.
Gilbert also questioned where all the federal assistance dollars went that was supposed to come to Nevada. “The mom and pop business sure didn’t receive it,” he said. “And many of them had to close their doors.”
On the subject of education reform, Gilbert said that he strongly supports giving parents more choice. “School vouchers are the only way to go,” he said.
“The Assertive Discipline Program in our schools needs to go,” Gilbert added. “It protects students from punishment that have assaulted teachers and fellow students.”
Gilbert asked the audience to decide who they are going to vote for based on their actions, not based on their talking points. “Fact check me and them,” he said. “I have noticed many career politicians cannot remember what they promised to do when they were on the campaign trail. We need to get those people out of office.”
Arkansas-bred Sam Brown, with a slow-talking contrasting demeaner, endeared the audience to him by his perseverance.
A West Point graduate, an Airborne Ranger and qualified leader of troops, Brown was sent to Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2008. His vehicle was struck by an IED blast that caused him to suffer serious burns on over 30 percent of his body. He endured three years of hospitals and surgeries.
“When I was on fire and my injured gunner jumped on me and extinguished the flames saying ‘Sir, I have your back!’ the death wish I had just made a moment ago was changed to hope,” Brown said.
Brown said that he has a strong love for his country and for the freedoms and liberty that he and others have fought for.
“I am not willing to exchange hard-earned freedoms, and personal responsibility for more government control,” Brown said. “It seems our career politicians are willing to do just that.”
Brown talked about the strong pull of Duty he feels for the nation he loves. “Nevadans need a choice in the election,” he said. “If a man like Sam Brown does not stand up and run against the career politicians and Washington money, who is going to do it. That is why I am running for the U.S. Senate. This country needs hope.”
Brown said that the people of the U.S. have suffered plenty of trauma in recent years at the hands of career politicians. “We have had economic trauma, healthcare trauma educational trauma, and social trauma,” he said. “Yet establishment keeps voting to empower and enrich themselves and keep outsiders out. This country needs recovery and healing and I have experienced the miracle of both”
Both candidates were well received by the audience. The MRW meet the second Wednesday of each month at the Veterans Center beginning at 5 pm.
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Lol!!! It ain’t happening
I was grateful to have been able to schedule these candidates last year as guest speakers for the MRW this year. It was the a part of the MRW office l once held that made it a pleasure. Happy to hear it was well received.