CPB and Steve Sanchez: A good Republican for Assembly District 42

Policy over party in the Las Vegas valley

Chris Brandlin joins Steve Sanchez to argue that Nevada Assembly District 42 needs a healthy, principled Republican — and that policy should come before party in the Las Vegas valley.

The argument is aimed at a specific problem in a district that has leaned Democratic for decades: a party label alone is not a persuasive case to voters who have not been voting that way. What fills the gap, on his account, is a candidate with positions specific enough to be argued with and a record specific enough to be checked.

That framing sets up the accountability work published elsewhere on this site — the incumbent's voting record and the donor transparency report — which apply exactly that standard.

Related: the later conversation with Sanchez on lawmakers versus placeholders and why a public-health advocate runs Republican.

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