Mesquite Republican Women Hosts Primary Candidates

By BOBBIE GREEN

The Progress

The April meeting of the Mesquite Republican Women Club drew a large audience to the Mesquite Veterans Center on Wednesday night, April 13. On the agenda for the evening was an overloaded list of candidates in the upcoming primary elections which take place on June 14.

The four scheduled speakers at the event were U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt, who is hoping to replace Senator Catherine Cortez Masto; a group of candidates for Secretary of State including former Assemblyman Jim Marchant, Sparks City Council Member Kris Daher, Judge Richard Scotti, and businesswoman Socorro Kennan,

Other candidates that showed up and were given two minutes to speak were Peter Pavone for Lieutenant Governor, Mary Marshall-Land for Clark County Treasurer, Stavros Anthony for Lieutenant Governor, Charlie Delapaz running for Assembly District 19; and Pattie Gallo and Paul Wanlass who are running for Mesquite City Council.

Secretary of State candidate Kris Dahir mentioned he has been a pastor for thirty years with plenty of experience in helping people. “I have hope because we have so many amazing people running for offices; we have you the voters, who are motivated to turnout on election day; and we have God who will help us,” Dahir said.

Dahir said that some of the current election laws pose a big problem. “We need change to get more security in our election laws so we feel safe that our vote will count,” Dahir said. “We need voter ID and to stop mail-in balloting.”

Dahir said that he has spent a lot of time working within the rural communities of the state and he plans that this will continue. “I want to be your Secretary of State,” he said.

When questioned about the alleged problems with Dominion voting machines in the last election, Dahir said “If I see evidence they can be fraudulent, I will get them changed.”

But Dahir added that the power of the Secretary of State is limited. He said that he will need the help of a Republican administration to make these changes.

Judge Richard Scotti, also a candidate for Secretary of State, believes there is a lot that the office can legally do to fix our election laws now. He said the Secretary of State has the power to get rid of the Dominion voting machines except in purely municipal elections.

Scotti said that signature verification regulations need to be changed to have certified signature experts verifying signatures or eliminate the voter machines.
“I have researched the Constitution and the Secretary of State has the authority to sue the Governor, the legislature, and local election officials,” Scotti said. “And I will do it.”
“We need to protect our state sovereignty from the federal government,” Scotti added.

He said that he is one of the lead attorneys on the “Repair the vote Pact working to eliminate the universal mail-in vote act.

The third candidate for Secretary of State was Jim Marchant. Marchant said he has already been working on election integrity in Nevada.

Marchant said that he worked with a group who got Nye County officials to remove the use of Dominion Voting machines. He has also been working with the Conservative Partnership in Washington D.C. to ensure that poll watchers who have the knowledge and power to stop irregularities placed in the polling places, so that these things can be cleared up on the spot.

“When I get elected, I will clean up the system and the voter rolls,” Marchant said. “Number one is getting rid of E.R.I.C. a Voter Registration System that Nevada is a charter member of. The Company is owned by George Soros and it keeps our voter roll in a mess.”

Marchant went on to emphasize the need for a conservative Republican Governor in office in Nevada. He said that the state needs a governor who won’t veto constitutional election regulations like voter ID, similar to what was done in 2015 by a Republican Governor after the legislator passed voter ID law.

Socorro Keenan, also running for Secretary of State, said she is running because she believes this is “our last chance” to keep America as we know it.
“I am a mother and a grandmother,” Keenan said. “We don’t have time to wait any longer for these people already in office who do nothing but go along to get along.”

Keenan said she is worried about properties (title deeds) being stolen with forged signatures. She said all original signatures should be verified and stamped with a blue ink stamp to stop the forgeries.
Keenan said that she would support voter ID. “What you want is one voter one ID, and to get rid of the Dominion Voting machines,” she said.

U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt spoke at length listing all of, what he believed to be, the numerous failings of the current administration. He talked about how this will be the biggest senate race in a decade or more.
“This is going to be a red wave of biblical proportions,” Laxalt said. “This is our time. This is the easiest sell conservatives will ever have.”

Laxalt echoed the other candidates talking about voter fraud in this state and the need to overhaul election regulations in Nevada. He said that, in order to overcome these voting obstacles, the voters must have a massive voter turnout to stop the cheating.

The Mesquite Republican Women plan to hold a Spring Festival on Saturday April 30 from 10AM-4PM at the Mesquite Recreation Center field. There will be arts, crafts, food vendors and entertainment along with primary election candidates. All of the public is invited to attend.