Editorial: If only more Republicans were like Sandoval
Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the May 8, 2017, Las Vegas Sun.
During his recent trip to Washington, D.C., Gov. Brian Sandoval showed why the Republican Party should encourage him to come back for an extended stay.
Like six years in the Senate. Or maybe even four years in the White House.
Sandoval went to the nation’s capital in an awkward position, as a moderate and results-oriented governor meeting with Cabinet members of a hard-line extremist presidential administration. On two of the main issues that prompted his visit — supporting last November’s successful ballot question legalizing recreational marijuana and opposing the Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste dump — he was completely out of step with the president.
Saw somewhere yesterday that Sandoval might be considered for the vacant FBI position. I have no idea what he knows about law enforcement but, as Republicans go these days, he seems relatively honest and competent.
But he’s going to need more than just that smile to face down his new boss – and it’s going to take a lot of facing down for him to stay “relatively honest and competent.”