Post by Logan on Jan 16, 2016 22:18:11 GMT -6
Attorney General Adam Laxalt and Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison issued a joint statement on Thursday effectively agreeing to bury the hatchet in their dispute over Hutchison’s lawsuit seeking dismissal of the vouchers law challenge.
They filed a joint stipulation in Clark County District Court putting Hutchison’s lawsuit on hold.
After Hutchison filed to join the case challenging the vouchers suit, Laxalt issued statements charging that would just create more problems in the battle to support the constitutionality of the vouchers law. He charged Hutchison was using the case to raise campaign funding and asked that the judge toss the lieutenant governor’s action out. Treasurer Dan Schwartz, whose office is charged with managing the so-called Educational Savings Accounts program, termed it a political ploy.
Hutchison said he filed the case on behalf of clients in his capacity as a private lawyer, not as lieutenant governor and denied it has anything to do with campaign fundraising.
“We have set aside our strategic differences and are united behind the position that the best legal course of action now is to stay the Norman (Hutchison filed) case and support the Attorney General’s efforts in defense of this critical program,” they said in a joint statement.
Continue reading at www.nevadaappeal.com/news/20169837-113/ag-ltgov-agree-to-bury-the-hatchet .
They filed a joint stipulation in Clark County District Court putting Hutchison’s lawsuit on hold.
After Hutchison filed to join the case challenging the vouchers suit, Laxalt issued statements charging that would just create more problems in the battle to support the constitutionality of the vouchers law. He charged Hutchison was using the case to raise campaign funding and asked that the judge toss the lieutenant governor’s action out. Treasurer Dan Schwartz, whose office is charged with managing the so-called Educational Savings Accounts program, termed it a political ploy.
Hutchison said he filed the case on behalf of clients in his capacity as a private lawyer, not as lieutenant governor and denied it has anything to do with campaign fundraising.
“We have set aside our strategic differences and are united behind the position that the best legal course of action now is to stay the Norman (Hutchison filed) case and support the Attorney General’s efforts in defense of this critical program,” they said in a joint statement.
Continue reading at www.nevadaappeal.com/news/20169837-113/ag-ltgov-agree-to-bury-the-hatchet .