Local races matter: The Sun’s endorsements for the Clark County Commission and School Board

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These are the Sun's recommendations for Clark County races.

Local races matter: The Sun’s endorsements for the Clark County Commission and School Board

ENDORSEMENTS:

These are the region races that volition look connected Southern Nevadans' ballots. We connection our choices successful italics.

Incumbents are denoted with an asterisk (*).

CLARK COUNTY 

County Commission District E

“Tick” Segerblom (D)*

Manny Kess (R)

County Commission District F

Minja Yan (D)

Becky Harris (NPP)

Heidi Kasama (R)

County Commission District G

Jim Gibson (D)*

Jon Maxham (R)

County Clerk

Lynn Marie Goya (D)*

Howell Shaw (R)

George Stamper (L)

County Recorder

Tanya Flanagan (D)

Steven Borella (L)

Bill Young (R)

County Assessor

Tamicka N. Washington (D)

Judy Joe (R)

Lynette Warren (L)

County Treasurer

J. “Ken” Diaz (D)*

Tim “TJ” Ferreira (L)

Mitchell Tracy (R)

The region treasurer’s contention provides a peculiarly compelling illustration of however unserious the MAGA helping of the Republican Party is astir governance. The Democratic incumbent, Ken Diaz is simply a licensed CPA with much than 2 decades of acquisition successful authorities fiscal services. His run website discusses the request for a “steady manus guiding our county’s fiscal future” and “protecting your taxation dollar.” His opponent, Mitchell Tracy, connected the different hand, had a website that, up until recently, described his run level arsenic supporting instrumentality enforcement, the military, parents, the U.S. Constitution and MAGA — goals that are astir arsenic acold afield from the relation of a region treasurer arsenic a idiosyncratic tin get.

Public Administrator

Michael Murphy (R)

Stephanie Itkin-Goodman (D)

Unlike his MAGA brethren, Murphy is simply a Republican who has focused his run strictly connected utilizing his section administrative, instrumentality enforcement and coroner’s bureau acquisition to reconstruct spot to the office.

CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT (nonpartisan)

Trustee District D 

Brenda Zamora*

David Gomez

Trustee District F 

Irene Bustamante Adams*

Rob Hutchinson

Trustee District G

Linda Cavazos*

Paul Casey

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