Reporters’ Notebook
Steve Sanson is running for state Senate in District 12, but on the candidate information form he filled out for the Review-Journal the 23-year-old Republican wrote his father’s phone number instead of his own.
His dad, also named Steve Sanson, is a Republican candidate for Clark County public administrator.
The younger Sanson’s explanation: “I didn’t want to get a lot of calls.”
He also said, “My father is way more into politics than I am.”
LYNNETTE CURTIS
OVERHEARD ON THE SCANNER: “It’s a turtle walking down the sidewalk.”
PiAnge Jackson, a Democratic candidate for Assembly in district 19, didn’t hide her feelings for the Review-Journal during a recent telephone call.
When a reporter called to interview her for the upcoming voter guide, Jackson said she was too busy.
When asked when she would have time, she said, “Next year.”
BRIAN HAYNES
Charlie Zobell, the R-J’s managing editor, emceed the paper’s annual high school journalism awards last week.
As a good journalist, he stuck to the facts and didn’t sugarcoat a thing.
“Many of you will receive awards today,” Zobell told the assembled students. “Probably, many more of you will not.”
ALAN CHOATE
You might know Dennis Hof from the HBO reality show “Cathouse,” which chronicles the … um … activities at his Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel near Carson City.
Well, Hof is about to expand his empire to Southern Nevada with the purchase of two bordellos in Nye County, about 75 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Hof said he hasn’t decided what to call his new acquisitions, but he probably won’t use the Bunny Ranch name because he doesn’t want to “dilute the brand.”
“There is no competition for the Bunny Ranch. None,” he said.
“We are the gold standard. We are the Coca-Cola.”
HENRY BREAN