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Drew Johnson: “I actually filed a complaint with the Secretary of State…”

Featuring: Drew Johnson, Libertarian-leaning Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House Nevada, District 3

Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F

Published October 20, 2022 | Video Starts at 03:47

Can you share with us your thoughts on the quality of the verbiage in those mailers and the truthfulness of them? Absolutely. I actually filed a complaint with the Secretary of State because of these bogus mailers. So what Justin Jones and his team did is put out mailers that attacked me on everything from crime to Social Security to abortion and porn, all sorts of things. (03:47–03:54)

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“All the polling shows us ahead [of Justin Jones] more than the margin of error.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 02:41-02:47
“Justin Jones and his team put out mailers that attacked me on everything from crime to Social Security to abortion and porn.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 03:53-04:07
“When you went to those sources, they were completely unrelated or they didn't exist at all.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 04:09-04:14
“He [Justin Jones] this week is going to court because he deleted public records.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 04:13-04:46
“Justin Jones had illegally deleted things that are now a matter of public record.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 05:50-05:57
“The county tends to underestimate revenues, leaving millions of dollars left over at the end of the year.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 11:22-11:27
“Rather than returning that money to taxpayers, they split it up into seven [for each county commissioner].”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 11:29-11:38
“During the pandemic, my opponent, Justin Jones, actually increased sales tax on all of us.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 11:51-11:57
“We're talking about tens of millions of dollars [in surplus funds].”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 12:16-12:19
“RTC loses $11 million a week.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 13:05-13:10
“In some cases, it would be cheaper to hire people in Uber rather than run the buses the way they do.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 13:10-13:17
“All the money [for the Elon Musk tunnel project] has been private money so far.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 14:54-14:58
“The biggest issue we're facing right now in metro, obviously we've got increasing crime.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 19:01-19:07
“Metro police officers... they're running quite a few, almost 40% short of the numbers that they need.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 19:27-20:39
“There are conservative, sort of low tax pro business Democrats on the Clark County Commission.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 21:31-21:38
“On most votes, 3 fairly pro business, 3 fairly low tax Democratic county commissioners.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 22:03-22:12
“Once we replace the most leftist extremist Clark county commissioner, who's Justin Jones with me, will have a lot of votes that go 4 to 3…”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 22:11-22:26
“You have to pay three different fees [to open a hot dog stand in Clark County].”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 22:44-22:51
“If you were to open up a hot dog stand in Clark county, it takes 23 different steps.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 22:45-22:51
“The sorts of people who want to open those businesses are young people, they're immigrants, they're early career people.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 22:58-23:04
“The cost of those regulations are passed along to consumers.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 23:35-23:40
“Lowering sales taxes, but also making sure that the cap on our property taxes stays where it is.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 23:43-23:50
“My opponent has outwardly discussed in county commission meetings getting rid of that [property tax] cap.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 24:14-24:14
“In Clark County, 89% of the county is owned by the federal government.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 25:04-25:09
“We've got 30 years worth of water, according to the water authority, based on current growth.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 26:09-26:18
“We also have eight years banked in literal granite vaults underground in different places.”
Nevada Newsmakers - Oct 20, 2022 - Drew Johnson (R) Candidate Clark County Commission, District F | Uploaded October 20, 2022 | 26:17-26:23