By james art 
As in past legislative sessions, Nevada independent He publishes a series of profiles with the participation of the new legislators in the state. Check in the next days for additional stories about the origin of new legislators, interests and political positions.
Assembly Tanya Flanagan
- Freshman Las Vegas Democrat inherits Assm. Cameron CH Miller (D-Las Vegas), who resigned from its seat in 2023 for an unsuccessful offer for the Las Vegas City Council.
- It is an area in the center of northern Las Vegas, which is north of the city airport and west of Nelis Air Force Base. About a quarter of residents in the district are black.
- Region 7 has a severe democratic bow (40 percent are registered as Democrats, 18 percent as Republicans and 42 percent, registered as non -partisan or other political parties as of December 2024)).
- Flanagagan won the undeniable general election after defeating Democrat James Fennel II in the primary, where he won more than 80 percent of the vote.
- It will sit in government affairs, growth and infrastructure committees and natural resources.
Account
After being diagnosed with cancer for the third time in 2009, Tanya Flanagan had a conversation with her pastor.
“He said,” What do you think God wants you to do with your life? “, Said the 54 -year -old Flanshage.
As she was considering this question, she said she looked at the role that Cancer had played not only in her life but also on her mother.
When Flanagan was 23 years old, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, which metastasized in the liver and lungs, and she died four years later. Four years later, Flanagan learned that she was also diagnosed with cancer – the first of her three diagnoses.
Flanagagan had already worked as a journalist during which she was trying to capture the “faces of cancer” – not only the prospects of cancer patients, but also their loved ones – but she began to think about how else she could help people with people with their cancer trips.
In the end, she began working with Susan G. Comenn, advocacy and research organization for breast cancer, and later became President of the Board of Directors of the Branch of the Group in Nevada.
“In some respects, [cancer] has formed some of the intercession I am for and I am for, “said Flavagan.
She has done another advocacy with the city league in Las Vegas, Afro -American Group for Social and Economic Advocacy, where he is a member of the Constituent Board. She participated in national events in the Urban League while growing up in Arizona and founding the young professionals in Las Vegas Urban League.
Flankgan who received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science from the University of Arizona and her MBA by UNLV also works as a reporter of Las Vegas Review-Journal For five years before pursuing public relations. She had a short stay, doing PR for Mirage, and then started working for Clark County, where he has worked for more than 20 years in various communications and roles in the community.
Her campaign for the Assembly Region 7 last year came four years after she was unsuccessfully running for a Clark County Committee in 2020, a candidacy that was hindered by the pandemic. She came in second place in the democratic primary of Commissioner Will McCurdy.
As he heads to Carson City, Flanagan said he wanted to lean on his own healthy journey to insist on more accessibility and access to health care, especially for women. During her three cancer diagnoses, she had about 20 surgeries.
“I had the good fortune to work with good doctors … But I think we need even more access and more accessible access,” she said. “[I’m] Always try to be a voice to open the door to women who are insufficient, uninsured, undervalued, disadvantaged. “
As a legislator, she said she wanted to follow her mantra throughout her life to help others.
“It’s always about creating … good opportunities for people who can’t always create an opportunity for themselves,” she said.
On the issues
Education
Flanagan supports a free meal for all K-12-12-proposal students that governor Joe Lombardo veto last year, but one that Democrats plan to return-and said they grow, her parents emphasize the importance of the brain fuel. “
She also stated that she supports current recipients of scholarships for opportunities- the program that provides low and medium-sized household students with scholarships in private schools- to continue to receive these resources, but the program must be reassessed in the long run, In order to ensure that the program must be reassessed in the long run to ensure that it is guaranteed to ensure that To ensure that the program must be reassessed, we are responsible and fair with the practices of management that influence education. “
Health care
Asked what the legislature should do in order to reduce the uninsured rate of the state, Flanagan said that state legislators should insist on protecting the law on affordable care. And it emphasized the importance of increasing the accessibility and access of healthcare.
In particular, she referred to a proposal for a bill she presented to provide more opportunities for reproductive health to people who may suffer from breast cancer who can genetically predispose them to ovarian cancer.
Dwelling
The summary process of expulsion of Nevada requires the tenants, not the landlord, to make the first legal submission in a expulsion case.
Flanagag did not directly respond to whether it would support the proposed changes in the process – which were vetoed last year by Lombardo, who since then expressed more willingness to accept changes – but said it supported “by giving tenants the opportunity to overcome more and more. Good for yourself. “
Election
Asked if she supported many suggestions for reducing the vote on the mail and the election goal, Flanagan announced the state’s efforts to increase the accessibility of the vote and said, “I do not know that we can sacrifice accuracy for speed.”
She added that “it would remain a strong supporter of access to the ballot and of a fair and safe casting of newsletters.”
Weapon reform
Asked if she supports the requirement of people to be 21 years old to buy certain semi -automatic rifles and rifles, Flanagan said she supported the increase in age to buy a gun, but that other suggestions are also important, such as policies surrounding mental health and courses policies for safety training.
Environment
Flanagagan said she acknowledged the importance of the goal of the state to reach almost zero carbon emissions by 2050, but when asked if she supported the more stringent laws to achieve it, she stopped approved before finding out what They can lead to these suggestions.
She also said that solutions such as urban gardens are a potentially “small contribution to the surface”, which may have benefits to achieving the goal of state emissions.
Movie Tax Credit
Flanagagan called the film industry’s interest in Nevada “huge”, but said he would have to see more details before taking a position on providing tax loans to attract companies.
Linear vetors
Flanagan is against the proposal to allow the governor to veto a veto to budget positions instead of having to deal with budget accounts in its entirety. The idea of veto the line of the line was proposed by Assm. Heidi Casama (R-Las Vegas).