Sisolak proposes debates with Laxalt
Wants Bundy, other candidates to participate
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Steve Sisolak wants three cracks at debating Republican candidate and Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt before the general election.
Sisolak campaign manager Rob Hill sent a proposal Wednesday to the Laxalt camp asking for three debates after Labor Day, including one in Southern Nevada, one in Northern Nevada and one on a Spanish-language television station — a fairly common proposal for statewide races.
When asked about the proposal Wednesday, Laxalt said he hadn’t seen it yet.
“Of course, we’re excited to have debates, and we will engage in that process in the weeks ahead,” he said.
In an unusual move, Sisolak’s proposal asks that third-party and independent candidates also participate.
“Voters deserve to hear from all candidates qualified for the general election ballot, including those from the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the Libertarian Party, and the Independent American Party. Any nonpartisan candidate who receives significance in public polling also deserves a place on the debate stage,” Hill wrote the debate proposal.
The governor’s race includes Independent American candidate Russell Best, Libertarian Jared Lord and non
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“When we’re planning an event like this, we always have in the back of our minds a little bit of fear if anybody is going to come,” Trussel said. “(Parents) were so excited to share in their children’s hard work and to see their children receive awards for what they’ve accomplished, and it was really inspiring to be a part of.”
On to next chapter
Mibulano was 16 when she and her family were resettled in Las Vegas in 2015. She said the day they found out they were coming was
“the happiest day of our life.”
“Life was not good where we were living,” Mibulano said. Her father was often unemployed, and her mother made what she could selling tomatoes. Mibulano and her siblings had to pay to go to school, so when money ran out, they simply couldn’t go. They would help their mother work instead.
The challenges didn’t end with their arrival in Las Vegas. None of them spoke English, and Mibulano had to adjust to American culture while she worked to finish her high school education.
But not only did she graduate from Las Vegas High School this year, but she received a scholarship from
Lighthouse Charities to attend the College of Southern Nevada in the fall.
She wants to become a nurse and help people like her mother, Louise, who suffers from diabetes and heart problems.
“I want to help people who are sick, because my mom, she has been sick so long,” Mibulano said, tears welling in her eyes.
The ceremony also featured an address from Niyat Tewelderbrhan, an Eritrean refugee who recently graduated from Touro University Nevada with a master’s degree in medical health sciences.
Tewelderbrhan recalled the night Ethiopian soldiers came into her
home and deported her and her family, depositing them at the Ethiopia-eritrea border.
“I almost died on that journey,” Tewelderbrhan said. “I still remember the man that was shot on the bus ride towards the border. All of this at 8 years old, just because I was Eritrean.”
Now 28, Tewelderbrhan gave her audience some advice: Never fear to fail, never regret and take motivation from your own story.
“We refugees have a resilience and endurance that life itself has taught us. That is something to be proud of,” Tewelderbrhan said. “That greatness is within us. We just need to treasure it.”