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Closed Classrooms are Killing Nevada Kids…Literally!

by Annie Black January 25, 2021
written by Annie Black

(Annie Black) – Even as other Democrat governors begin reopening their states now that President Trump is no longer in the White House, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak continues with his iron grip on the state’s economic throat while doing nothing (other than talk) to reopen our public schools.

With deadly results.

“Since schools shut their doors in March,” the New York Times reported over the weekend, “an early-warning system that monitors students’ mental health episodes has sent more than 3,100 alerts to (Clark County School District) officials, raising alarms about suicidal thoughts, possible self-harm or cries for care.

“By December, 18 students had taken their own lives.”

Tragic.

And make no mistake.  The fact that so many public-school classrooms remain shuttered is due to the teachers’ unions that continue to object to teachers being forced to show up in person for their jobs even as store clerks, cashiers and waitresses show up for theirs.

The decisions to continue blocking the schoolhouse doors so kids can’t get in are purely political.  The “science” Gov. Sisolak continues to claim is behind his shutdown decisions was settled long ago.

There is simply NO scientific or health reason to keep classrooms closed.

The teachers’ unions don’t care.

If the government is going to continue barricading public school classrooms, parents should be rebated the money allotted to their kids’ education so they can move them into a private school, charter school or homeschool.

In 2015, Republicans in the Nevada Legislature created universal Education Savings Accounts (ESA’s) providing parents about $5,000 per child to send their kids to the school of THEIR choice, not the government’s.

Just as food stamps can be used at private grocery stores.

But in 2019, after regaining control of the Legislature and the governor’s office, Democrats killed ESA’s.  That decision is now killing some of our kids…literally.

Yesterday marked the start of School Choice Week.  And never has it been more important.

But don’t hold your breath waiting for Democrats in the Nevada Legislature to bring back ESA’s.  They’re more worried about getting support from the teachers’ unions than supporting your kids.

Fund students, not schools.

LAST CHANCE to Sign “Unlock Nevada” Petition

The 2021 session of the Nevada Legislature begins in one week (grab your wallets!) and I’m driving up from Las Vegas today.

Since I’ll be on the road and inaccessible most of the day – and since people are still going online to sign my “Unlock Nevada & End the Sisolak Shutdown” petition – I’m going to extend the deadline until tomorrow.

Then we’ll add all your names to the bottom of the petition, print out 63 copies, and hand-deliver one to every legislator so they have it before next Monday.

If you want to add your name to the list, sign now or forever hold your peace!

Click HERE

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“We lost a senior at my son’s high school to suicide, his depression exacerbated by quarantine.” – Asra Q. Nomani

“Kids are killing themselves because of isolation while teachers’ unions are fighting to keep schools closed despite schools not being a serious vector of disease transmission. Never forget this.” – Sonny Bunch

“Teachers unions have proven to be one of the most destructive organizations in American society.” – John Cooper

“By pushing to keep schools closed even as evidence mounted that in-person classes were relatively low-risk and remote learning was ineffective, teachers’ unions failed students and parents.” – Peter Suderman, Reason magazine

“The teachers union is coming for more money at the (Nevada Legislature), yet are resisting any plan to reopen. Families are suffering. Kids are losing opportunities.” – Deborah Earl

“Time for the funds to be allocated to students and allow them to go elsewhere for their educational needs. Teachers unions don’t have a right to hold children’s education hostage to their own fears.” – William Tyson

“Education funding is supposed to be meant for educating children – not for protecting a government monopoly. We should fund students instead of institutions.” – Corey DeAngelis

“It is those with the least access to school choice who suffer the most. Wealthy families can afford to buy laptops, pay tuition for independent schools or even hire private tutors for one-on-one lessons. By contrast, poorer students often face difficulties even accessing the internet for online learning.” – Valeria Gurr

“If you homeschool you should get a voucher from your taxes in order to buy different types of curriculum and school supplies.” – Clark County School District Trustee Katie Williams

Annie Black is the Nevada State Assemblywoman representing District 19.  You can get more information by visiting www.electannieblack.com 

January 25, 2021 0 comment
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Annie On the Air with Michelle Mortensen

by Annie Black January 23, 2021
written by Annie Black

Interview with Assemblywoman Annie Black starts in the second half of the podcast…

January 23, 2021 0 comment
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Sisolak’s Proposed Budget a Slap Across Nevada’s Face

by Annie Black January 19, 2021
written by Annie Black

(Annie Black) – As Nevada’s economy continues to gush red ink, thanks to Gov. Steve Sisolak’s seemingly never-ending authoritarian and heavy-handed “emergency” shutdown orders, the governor is proposing a budget Band-Aid when a tourniquet is called for.

In a summary of his Executive Budget released on Monday, the governor proposes cutting state government spending in the next biennium by a measly…2 percent.

But even that’s not quite what it seems.

During a special session last July, the Legislature reduced current general fund spending to $8.35 billion.  But the governor’s proposed new budget is set at $8.69 billion.

So in reality, the governor is actually proposing a spending INCREASE over current spending while the state is STILL reeling from the Sisolak Shutdown.

That’s not only fiscally irresponsible, but an insult to Nevadans who have suffered unmercifully under his dictatorial reign for the last ten months.

Hang on.  It’s actually even worse than THAT.

While Gov. Sisolak divided Nevada’s private sector workers into “essential” and “non-essential” and forced the “non-essential” ones into the unemployment line, he hasn’t done the same for government employees.

Indeed, while hundreds of thousands of Nevadans have been laid off, some permanently, state government employees – both essential and non-essential – face only six days of unpaid “furloughs” for this entire coming year.  And no furloughs for the second year.

So much for the governor’s claim that we’re “all in this together.”

Instead of increasing non-essential government spending, we should be cutting non-essential government spending.

Instead of furloughing essential government employees, we should be laying off non-essential government employees.

Instead of tax hikes – or, as Michelle White, the governor’s chief-of-staff, deceptively calls them, “augmentation or refinements” – we should be cutting taxes and fees.

Instead of burdening Nevada businesses with restrictions, fines and harassment from inspectors and enforcers, we should be cutting government regulations.

Instead of keeping Nevada families on virtual house arrest, we should be taking steps to limit ANY governor’s ability to so badly abuse the privilege of “emergency” one-man or one-woman rule in the future.

If you agree, please add your name to the hundreds who have already signed my online petition calling on the Legislature to override the governor’s “emergency” directives, immediately unlock Nevada and end the Sisolak Shutdown.

Click HERE.

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“What scares me most is not the fact that our media is lying to us. It’s the fact that most of you believe them.” – Matt Couch

“Some people seem to think that the answer to all of life’s imperfections is to create a government agency to correct them. If that is your approach, then go straight to totalitarianism. Do not pass ‘Go.’ Do not collect $200.” – Thomas Sowell

“Are there real problems with how elections were conducted in 2020?  Absolutely.” – Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter/columnist Debra Saunders, 1/15/21

Annie Black is the Nevada State Assemblywoman representing District 19.  You can get more information by visiting www.electannieblack.com 

January 19, 2021 0 comment
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Sign Our Petition to Unlock Nevada and End the Sisolak Shutdown

by Annie Black January 15, 2021
written by Annie Black

(Annie Black) – In invoking dictatorial powers to address the COVID-19 pandemic last March, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak declared such powers were afforded to him by state law.

He has abused those powers for over ten months now, choking the life out of our state’s economy and doing irreparable harm to the lives and livelihoods of Nevada’s citizens.

No politician should be allowed to have such unlimited power for an unlimited duration.

The Nevada Legislature is schedule to convene again on February 1, 2021.

Please click on the link below to add your name to AnniePAC’s new petition – adopted from a similar resolution passed by the Elko County Commission on January 6, 2021 – calling on legislators to immediately Unlock Nevada and End the Sisolak Shutdown.

I will hand-deliver copies of this petition, with everyone’s name on it, to each Nevada State Senator and Assemblyman on Day One of the 2021 session on your behalf.

Thank you for helping to make Nevada a better place to live and work.

Assemblywoman Annie Black
Nevada Assembly District 19

P.S.  In order to get hard copies of the petition printed with your name on it for distribution on the first day of the session, please go online and add your name by MIDNIGHT, JANUARY 24, 2021.

January 15, 2021 0 comment
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Annie on the Air: Interview with Vegas Take

by Annie Black January 13, 2021
written by Annie Black

Annie went back into the lion’s den to discuss the January 6 rally in Washington, DC.

Some fiery exchanges with one of the hosts, but Annie stood her ground. As listener Cory McMan put it…

“I just wanted to send you a note in show of support after hearing your interview on The Vegas Take radio show. You were treated very unfairly by the host, Brian Shapiro, but you handled yourself very respectfully and it was encouraging to hear your strength during the interview. Thank you for your service and please remain positive and confident in what you are doing.”

Thank you, Cory!

Interview with Annie starts at around the 21-minute mark…

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NV Legislator Witnesses Storming Of U.S. Capitol

by Annie Black January 13, 2021
written by Annie Black

(Vernon Robison | The Progress) – One local elected official had a first-hand witness of the explosive danger in feeding charged rhetoric to a frenzied crowd.

Nevada Assemblywoman-elect Annie Black of Mesquite travelled to Washington D.C. last week to attend the National Mall rally in support of Donald Trump held on Wednesday, Jan. 6. She planned to participate in a peaceful protest. But before the end of the day, she experienced a nightmarish scene as crowds got out of control and stormed through security into the Capitol building.

“I sure wasn’t planning on what happened, that is for sure,” Black said in an interview with The Progress after she returned home last week. “It definitely wasn’t at all what I signed up in attending the event.”

Black, who has attended several Trump rallies in various places during the past year, said that she had received word that a big rally would be held in Washington on Wednesday, the day that the Congress was scheduled to vote to certify the electoral votes in the Presidential election.

“There had been some rallies and protests recently and we really wanted to go,” Black said. “But we stayed home and just watched them on TV and kind of regretted that. So this time, we decided we were going to go and support the President.”

In addition, Black said she has been averaging more than 200 emails every day from people in her Assembly district who were asking her to stand up and fight for Trump and somehow change the Nevada outcome at the state legislature.

“Unfortunately, because of the make-up of the legislature, and the fact that we don’t even go into session until February, there really wasn’t anything that I could do,” Black said. “I did ask Speaker Friarsen to call a special session. But obviously that wasn’t going to happen.”

Black spent all of Wednesday in Washington. She arrived near the Ellipse just south of the White House, where the rally was taking place, at around 8 am that morning. The gathering at the rally was huge. Black said that she could barely see the stage and the sound system wasn’t working well at that distance.

She had heard that, after his speech near the White House, the President would make another appearance later on at the Capitol. So at around 11 am, she and her group decided to just go up to the Capitol Building and wait, hoping they could get better positioning for the later speech.

When they got there, they set up amid a much smaller crowd on the east side of the Capitol.

The President spoke at about 1 pm and they listened to the speech over a loudspeaker that another attendee had hooked to his phone.

“And then, all hell broke loose,” Black said. “All of a sudden there are thousands of people. And they were just fired up. I think a lot of people got caught up in the moment and things got a little crazy. That is not an excuse for what they did. But when such a big crowd gets fired up sometimes things get pretty wild.”

Black said that she had backed away from the activity, so she couldn’t see very well when the front lines of the crowd started to break through the barricades and approach the building.

But she definitely noted a very different feel to the crowd from what she had experienced near the Ellipse earlier in the day.

“It was just a different mixture of people that came there,” Black said. “When the influx of people started to arrive I remember noting that there were people walking around with gas masks and helmets. There were people with American flags that were letting them drag on the ground. It was just a different vibe.”

Black said that she witnessed a lot of people in the crowd who were trying to keep things from becoming destructive and violent.

“When stuff really started to hit the fan, there were a lot of people there who were shouting saying, ‘They’re not MAGA!’ about the people trying to get through the barricade,” Black said. “And when people tried to pull the barriers away, others were struggling with them to keep them in place.”

As the crowd broke through the barriers and began to approach the Capitol building, Black said that she withdrew far back to the east, toward the front of the Supreme Court building.

“When people rushed the fence, I didn’t want any part of that,” she said. “That wasn’t what I came for. I’ve just worked too hard and sacrificed too much to have this opportunity thrown away by doing something stupid like that.”

Even so, there were some Democratic groups that called for Black, and other Republican state legislators from across the event who attended the event, to relinquish their legislative positions and not be seated for the next session.

But Black said that she has no intention of resigning.

“It is ridiculous,” she said. “Those groups have never even talked to me and they didn’t even wait for me to make a statement about it. They just want me to resign for purely political reasons. I didn’t break any laws and I didn’t do anything wrong.”

Black said that witnessing this debacle has changed her life forever, though. She said that it has taught her lessons that she will remember. The manipulative and inflammatory rhetoric on both sides of the political divide needs to stop or terrible things could result, she said.

“When the representatives of either party pumps people full of this charged language and makes folks think it is the end of the world, then where do they go from there?” Black said. “I mean people felt like they don’t have a president to protect them, they don’t have a Senate majority or a majority in Congress; and especially in Nevada, we don’t have equal representation in our state legislature. So people start feeling really desperate and backed into a corner. All someone has to do is throw a rhetorical match in there and everything goes up in flames. I think that is what we were seeing there.”

Black said that the experience will definitely inform her approach to the State Legislature when she is seated in the Assembly next month. She wants to reach across the aisle to political opponents and get to know them as people she can work with.

“I feel like we all need to humanize one another,” Black said. “We need to start understanding that I’m not just a Republican and you’re not just a Democrat. We are all humans and we have things in common.”

“I don’t know how else we are going to fix this, because I am really afraid,” Black said. “We opened a Pandora’s box on Wednesday. And I don’t know if that is something that is going to go away.”

January 13, 2021 0 comment
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Sisolak Extends His Reign of Error

by Annie Black January 12, 2021
written by Annie Black

(Annie Black) – Nevadans want to know when the COVID vaccine will be available to them and when the state will reopen.  To answer those questions, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak held what talk-show host Heidi Harris now calls a “De-Presser” on Monday afternoon.

It was the latest example of just how incoherent the governor’s entire mishandling of the crisis has been.  Here’s how he explained his THIRD version for vaccine distribution.  See if you can figure out what the heck he’s talking about…

“We are moving away from a Tiered structure to focus on ‘lanes’ of vaccination that will run concurrently. This changes the structure of our playbook and plan going forward but does not impact the counties already moving into what was previously identified as Tier 2.

“The other lane which will be operating concurrently is ‘Frontline/Essential Workforce.’  They will also be getting vaccinated in priority order. … We are no longer using the tiered approach & have updated the playbook to streamline & simplify prioritization. Frontline/Essential Workforce categories are now prioritized in buckets.”

Translation:  I have no idea what I’m doing.

This is all political mush-mouth double-talk designed to distract Nevadans from the fact that, despite knowing the vaccine was coming for months, his roll-out and distribution has been a flop.  Consider…

According to Bill Dentzer of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada “has received 170,400 doses of the vaccine to date.”  But according to Gov. Sisolak, only 61,644 have been administered.

Now compare and contrast…

According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), South Dakota – under the leadership of Gov. Kristi Noem, who has never ordered a lockdown or issued a mandatory mask order – is leading the nation in the number of vaccines administered per 100,000 people.

Gov. Sisolak’s Nevada is the 7th WORST.

As Heidi Harris put it this morning: “Great job on the jab, @GovSisolak!”

But have no fear.  Megan Messerly reported: “Sisolak announced that he has asked the ‘best logistical leaders’ in the state to review what’s working and what isn’t with vaccinations.”

Lord, I hope they’re not the same “logistical leaders” who’ve been running DETR!

Also on Monday, the governor again extended his reign of error on shutdowns.

In mid-March he told us the #SisolakShutdown would be for 30 days to “flatten the curve.” Then he extended it.  Then he allowed for a partial re-opening for some “non-essential” businesses.  Then he mandated masks, even in your own home.  Then he issued a 30-day “pause” and cut capacity limits from 50% to 25%.

On Monday he doubled-down (his words, not mine)…

“At this time & for planning purposes, we are looking to keep these measures in place for another 30 days.  At the time I announced these measures, I called it a ‘Pause,’ because I truly hoped they would only have to last for a short period.”

“Hoped”?  He’s hurting all of our lives and livelihoods on wishful thinking?  What’s the “science” behind that?

It’s abundantly clear the governor’s Soviet-like, heavy-handed command-and-control policies haven’t worked.  In fact, they’ve been both a health and economic disaster.

But rather than admit he’s totally mismanaged this crisis and consult with the 63 members of the Legislature, Gov. Sisolak keeps doing what he’s always done and we keep getting what we’ve always gotten:  Screwed.

Heck, even New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo appears to have finally come around.  Here’s what he said on Monday…

“We cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass.  The cost is too high.  We will have nothing left to open.  We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely.”

Which, by the way, was pretty much the same thing Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman said LAST APRIL.

I’ll close with one final observation demonstrating just how confusing, contradictory and non-sensical the governor’s mismanagement of this crisis has been…

The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that “California’s coronavirus catastrophe reached a staggering new level Monday.”  Yet Gov. Sisolak continues to encourage Californians to come to Nevada while at the same time telling Nevadans to stay in their homes.

How does that make sense?

The answer isn’t 15,000 contradictory and discriminatory versions of government-ordered lockdowns.  Gov. Sisolak can’t make the virus disappear by executive order.  The answer is to unlock Nevada and let Nevadans – and even Californians – decide which risks to take.

If you want to stay in your home wearing a mask, stay in your home wearing a mask.  If you want to go to work and provide for your family, go to work and provide for your family.  If you want to send your kids to school, send your kids to school (if the teachers union will let you).  If you want to shop at Walmart, shop at Walmart.  If you want to have a birthday party at your house, have a birthday party at your house.

The government is not our mommy.  Just leave us alone.  We got this.

P.S.  If you have anyone who wants to receive my AnnieGrams, please have them sign up at www.AnnieBlack.net or shoot their email address to me at annie@electannieblack.com.  But make sure you have their permission first.

From the AnnieGram Mailbag

“You are retarded. You a communist. You should reside in Russia, China or North Korea. Yes you have engaged in insurrection when you travel to WDC. You are disability and has to be remove so said the constitution. No good EVIL creature.” – John Lafarge

“Ms Annie, You hang in there lady. This mongrel crowd that disrespected you shows what idiots they are. I never realized how vicious LIBS could be until the last 3 years. Good luck to you.” – Skip Wilson, Sparks, NV

“I am a 53 year old female and live in Vegas so I didn’t get to vote for you. I didn’t even know ABOUT you until this thing happened. Having said that, I agree with all of the positive feedback you are getting. It’s not easy being a female in politics, let alone a strong female! You keep doing what you’re doing and please above all, don’t let these bad apples spoil the bunch that truly believe you are a good person.” – Carolyn Grul

“When I wrote you to you on the 29th, this email was one of 378 emails that I sent to legislators in several of the swing states. You are the only legislator who returned a coherent response. And your response was not just coherent, it was intelligent, thorough and articulate.  Thank you.” – Chris Handsel

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“If Biden wins, we go for all the Republican voters and Homeland Security will take their children away… And we’ll put them into re-education camps.” – Michael Beller, principal counsel for PBS

“Corporations, which are now more powerful than they have ever been, are colluding with one another and with the political class to silence any opposition not to some ideal, they don’t have those, but to their rule.” – Tucker Carlson

“This massive shut down on free speech has never occurred in the United States. It equals many authoritarian regimes.” – Rudy Giuliani

“It should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions – especially when political realities make those decisions easier.” – ACLU senior legislative counsel Kate Ruane

“Imagine thinking you are fighting fascism by silencing your political opponents.” – Lisa Boothe

Annie Black is the Nevada State Assemblywoman representing District 19.  You can get more information by visiting www.electannieblack.com 

January 12, 2021 0 comment
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Nevada State Lawmaker Who Was at U.S. Capitol During Riot Refuses To Quit

by Annie Black January 12, 2021
written by Annie Black

(Oscar Quine | Newsweek) – Newly elected Assemblywoman Annie Black has said she will not resign, after attending the protest that turned violent in Washington on Wednesday.

In an email blast sent through her campaign website, Black outlined her involvement on the day and insisted that she was “not going anywhere.”

Black says she flew to Washington, D.C. by herself to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally, and while participating in the march, never entered the Capitol building.

She said the rally was “marred by some fringe elements who assaulted police officers and damaged property,” adding added that: “THEY should be punished. Severely.” The violence resulted in five deaths and 52 arrests.

Black told reporters earlier that she had attended the march from the White House to the Capitol, but had not entered the Capitol itself. “Going into the Capitol to me was unacceptable, there was no excuse for that,” she said, going on to refer to the building as a sacred space.

Black said she and others had simply “exercised our constitutional right to peaceably assemble and “petition the government for a redress of grievances related to how the 2020 elections were conducted.”

A member of Mesquite City Council since 2018 and Nevada Assembly since last year, Black previously said she has “attended over a dozen Trump rallies over the past few years.”

Her refusal to resign comes after the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee called on Friday for every Republican leader involved to “resign immediately,” along with a list of names including Black’s.

“There is blood on the ground at Capitol Hill and Republicans have nothing to say about their own elected officials who cheered on the rioters,” Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee President Jessica Post said in a written statement after the violence.

“There must be consequences for these shameful actions. We have videos of Republican state legislators trespassing in the Capitol and encouraging the crowd outside. They must resign or be expelled from their offices, and their leaders need to apologize to the American people for the Republican Party’s role in violently attacking our democracy.”

In response to this, Black wrote: “I’m not going anywhere. Though it appears Republican Assembly Minority Leader Robin Titus wishes otherwise.”

On Saturday, Virginia Republican Senator Amanda Chase also faced calls to resign. Virginia Senate’s Democratic Caucus accused Chase of having “galvanized domestic terrorists who violated the United States Capitol on Wednesday afternoon through riots, destruction, and desecration.”

Newsweek has approached Black and Chase for comment.

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Resign?  Here’s My Answer…

by Annie Black January 10, 2021
written by Annie Black

(Annie Black) – WARNING: There is extreme profanity included in this AnnieGram.  I apologize in advance, but think it’s important to reprint the authors’ words verbatim so you can see just how deranged and unhinged these people are.

If such language offends you, please stop reading when you get to the second warning below.  Otherwise…

As chronicled in Friday’s AnnieGram, I flew to Washington, DC to attend Wednesday’s “Stop the Steal” rally that was marred by some fringe elements who assaulted police officers and damaged property.

THEY should be punished.  Severely.  Not those of us who simply exercised our constitutional right to peaceably assemble and “petition the government for a redress of grievances” related to how the 2020 elections were conducted.

To be absolutely clear: I wasn’t part of the march down Pennsylvania Avenue, never entered the Capitol and didn’t cross the barricades.  In fact, here’s a shot from where I was standing as people started climbing the steps…

But that doesn’t matter to the unhinged left bent on “cancelling” anyone with an opinion different from theirs.  So naturally, calls rang out on Thursday demanding that I resign as your representative in the Nevada State Assembly.

For example, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee issued a demand “for every Republican legislator involved in the insurrection to resign immediately.”

Chimed in Karl Catarata, a City of Las Vegas employee who works for Democrat Councilman Brian Knudsen…

“‪@RealAnnieBlack literally aided and abetted criminals. Any legislator near her should call for her resignation and or expulsion. Simple.”

I don’t think there’s a more eloquent way to respond than to quote U.S. Army Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe when the Germans demanded his surrender on December 22, 1944 at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II…

“N U T S !”

For those who may not understand the slang, you’re not alone.  Here’s how the Associated Press explained it at the time…

When the officer handed McAuliffe’s answer to the German officer waiting just outside the American perimeter of defense, the latter asked: “Is your commander’s reply favorable? If it is, I am empowered to continue negotiations of terms.”

“My commander’s reply is ‘Nuts,'” the American responded.  “What does that mean?” asked the German.  “It means go to hell,” replied the American.  That the German understood. He saluted and marched off.

I’m not going anywhere.  Though it appears Republican Assembly Minority Leader Robin Titus wishes otherwise.

She issued a statement on Friday – on the “Nevada Assembly Democratic Caucus” letterhead and co-signed with Democrat Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson – that I consider to be a not-so-veiled threat to kick me out of the Legislature.

I think she’s still mad that I chose not to join her caucus.

If Ms. Titus and Mr. Frierson want to try not to seat a duly elected representative for lawfully exercising her constitutional rights simply because they don’t like what I stand for and believe…well, I’ll let THEM explain that to YOU.

But their joint statement was mild compared to what some Twitter trolls wrote – mostly anonymous; many from out of state – demanding my resignation.

I was called a “lying traitor,” a “disgrace to humanity,” “dangerous,” a “domestic terrorist,” a “murderer,” “un-American,” “disgusting,” a “seditionist,” a “conspirator,” “reprehensible,” a “treacherous blight,” and my personal favorite, “Insurrection Annie.”

And some guy named Charlie Cremer naturally went here…

“You run with Nazis, you are a Nazi.”

But even those paled in comparison to emails sent to me by some deranged lunatics…

(WARNING: EXTREME PROFANITY)

  • “You are a worthless piece of shit that your momma should have swallowed. I hope you go to prison for a long time. Fuck You. … I hope your kids learn what you did and hate your guts. Burn in hell cunt.” – Jon Newman (sabbath1509@yahoo.com) 
  • “Ms Black, you are a pathetic excuse for a human being and truly a waste of human flesh. Please resign…Nevada doesn’t need a scabby cunt like you in our state government!” – Larry Walter (larrywalter72@gmail.com) 
  • “Hope you like representing Mesquite from the slammer, you traitorous cunt.” – Anonymous

Gee, I can’t imagine why more people don’t want to run for public office!

To wrap up, I want to thank certain members of the media who have handled reporting on this controversy professionally and objectively.  Here are links to their stories…

  • David Charns | Channel 8 | Las Vegas
  • Jaclyn Schultz | FOX 5 | Las Vegas
  • Lauren Clark | Channel 3 | Las Vegas
  • Rory Appleton | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  • Sam Metz | Associated Press

Oh, and Kevin Wall of KMZQ 670 AM, who himself got slammed just for interviewing me by some goof hiding behind the Twitter handle “BuzzIzarownd”…

“Love the dumbaases you have on !!!!  The fucking dumber the better – when will @AdamLaxalt be on as he’s the dumbest !!!”

And I especially want to thank Nevada Republican Party Chairman Mike McDonald – who, many of you might remember, I ran against for party chair in 2019 in a rather spirited, sometimes heated, race – for issuing this statement of support…

“Assemblywoman Black had every right to assemble in our Nation’s Capital. She did not break the law, participate in damaging property, or incite violence. In fact, she very clearly condemned those who broke the law. It’s ridiculous to be asking for her resignation for simply exercising her First Amendment right.”

Just proves that political opponents need not become mortal enemies.  Thank you for this, Mr. Chairman.

Lastly, one of the Twitter trolls wrote…

“Did the Nevada taxpayers pay for @RealAnnieBlack to fly all the way to DC…?”

Once again, sorry to disappoint.  I was there on my own time and my own dime.

Now, don’t we all have some football to get to?

Seditiously yours,

Insurrection Annie

P.S.  Those who broke into the Capitol, assaulted police officers and/or damaged property should be punished.  However, I just found this video clip of Capitol Police Officers opening the door for protestors and standing aside to let them in.

While some protestors did unlawfully “storm” the Capitol, others appear to have been welcomed in with open arms.

P.P.S.  Here’s a photo of your “dangerous seditionist” with my fiancé in front of the Washington Monument on Wednesday morning…

Pretty scary, huh?

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“If there be time to expose through discussion…falsehoods and fallacies…the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” – Justice Louis D. Brandeis

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.” – Frederick Douglass

“18 months ago, I never thought I’d be a Congresswoman.  I just got fed up.  If you’re out there fed up at the state of this country right now, you’ve got to decide what YOU can do to make the change yourself.  Don’t wait for others to make the difference. Be the difference.” – Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO)

Annie Black is the Nevada State Assemblywoman representing District 19.  You can get more information by visiting www.electannieblack.com 

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Annie on the Air: Interview with Kevin Wall

by Annie Black January 10, 2021
written by Annie Black

Annie discusses her January 6 trip to Washington, DC for the “Stop the Steal” rally…

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