Campaign signs for GOP Assembly candidate vandalized
Vandals are targeting Assembly candidate Stephen Silberkraus’ campaign signs by drawing swastikas, Hitler mustaches and male genitalia on his face.
The anti-semitic markings hit him hard — Silberkraus’ ancestors were killed in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. The former Republican assemblyman is running for the Assembly District 29 seat in Henderson.
“It’s very troubling,” Silberkraus said Tuesday. “It’s not something you think of when you think of Henderson. We’re a neighborly and friendly community. It’s disturbing and bothersome to see that.”
The defaced signs are a block from Greenspun Junior High School — named after a prominent Jewish family — and the city’s largest synagogue, the Congregation Ner Tamid, Silberkraus said.
Silberkraus, who is challenging incumbent Democrat Lesley Cohen, blames the vandalism on an increasingly divisive political climate in Nevada and around the country. Cohen has not put up any signs around the district.
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“We are basically bringing our code up to date with what is already in effect in the City of Las Vegas,” Clark County Business Licensing Director Jacqueline Holloway said.
The ordinance, supported by Nevada Resort Association, was scheduled for a public hearing on Sept. 4.
A March vote on a similar ordinance was delayed after some county commissioners expressed concern with two provisions in the law.
The new iteration of the ordinance addresses those issues, Holloway said, because it no longer calls for allowing barbershops, salons and some retail stores to serve beer and wine.
Commissioners Susan Brager and Jim Gibson, who opposed those proposals, said Tuesday they are comfortable with the newly written ordinance.
“In this town there are so many places a person can go if they want wine and beer that it makes no sense to me for us to expand the authorized locations to the things that were mentioned,” Gibson said.
However, those proposals could come back.
Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani said she would like to pass an ordinance that would allow the service of beer and wine in barbershops and salons before her final term ends in December.
“I still think we should have that conversation. To me it’s about recognizing there’s different ways to provide experience for those who are getting their hair cut or their nails done,” she said.
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