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test caseThat may as well be the Nevada Policy Research Institute's Bible. The Review-Journal today reports about a guy who will sue to challenge his tax evaluation.

Thankfully, NPRI found a conservative who's failed in his bids for public office and obviously yearns for attention.  Brent Howard has finally got the paper's attention and plopped down on the front of the Nevada section, but only because he's doing NPRI's bidding.

We've been writing for a while about NPRI's attempt to gin up news coverage out of the fervent anti-tax sentiments in Lake Tahoe regarding property evaluations. (See NPRI Watch) Problem is, none of this frenzied call for attention has been based on truth.

NPRI's Steven Miller got to publish a myth-filled commentary in the RJ last Sunday. So, yesterday the paper was pretty much forced into running a response from Clark County Assessor Mark Schofield.

We've never known Schofield to be a public servant who twists the facts. In fact, were it not for Schofield's leadership several years ago, all Clark County homeowners would have suffered tremendously due to the rapidly rising (remember those days?) valuations of their homes. Scofield led the successful push for a property tax cap.

And Scofield calls out NPRI's tax evaluation scam as "balderdash." http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/state-assessors-following-the-law-79158302.html

Never mind what the assessor says, today, the Review-Journal is back on the made-up story thanks to Mr. Howard, who has been stoked along by NPRI's Miller. http://www.lvrj.com/news/tax-challenger-takes-complaints-to-court-79202922.html

Today's piece, by Ed Vogel in Carson City, once again trots out Miller's chief allegation -- that the county assessors aren't following the law. But Vogel doesn't let assessors address that point.

He may as well be on NPRI's payroll.

 

 
 

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