By james art 
The election of Donald Trump to a second term as president was a godsend for America.
The water level in the federal government’s “swamp” is already receding. Just days into his presidency, “47” has eliminated massive government waste, made our nation safer, secured our borders, and deported criminals. President Trump is opening up unnecessary bureaucracies and removing corrupt bureaucrats, and he’s just getting started. It feels like spring in America.
But here in Reno… we’re still in the midst of an established political “winter”: struggling to stay afloat in our local overflowing swamp.
If we hope to bring the same improvement to Reno that Trump is bringing to the capital, we must be more willing to do what he does. We have to sacrifice some of ours I time and get seriously involved in solving our biggest problems.
Like our nation’s capital, the Reno Swamp is made up of a handful of fortified individual holdings.
- They are all dysfunctional and/or corrupt to varying degrees.
- All of them must be “drained” if Reno hopes to duplicate President Trump’s results in our community.
Making Rhyno great again starts here!
A look at Reno’s top 6 wetlands that need immediate attention.
1) Reno Police Chief Catherine Nance
If we had to lay the blame for the explosion of Reno’s vagrant criminal population at just one office door, it would be Reno Police Chief Nance. She is relatively new and tech savvy, but she is no the tough, hands-on crime-fighting leader we need to save downtown Reno.
Hiding from the public and crunching numbers at the office is no substitute for confronting crime firsthand and wanting to jail the hundreds of vagrants who deserve to be there.
We need a police chief who will boost the morale of patrol officers by demanding that the mayor and City Council turn cops loose to strictly enforce the law and do the job they were hired to do.
2) Reno Fire Chief David Cochran
Is there another fire department in the nation whose fire chief would allow a drug policy that allows firefighters to have up to 5 times the levels of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, etc., and still respond to fires? How about an additional clause that makes drug testing a suspected firefighter nearly impossible and threatens the employment of any firefighter who reports them?
After years of the promised boss Cochran is still too cowardly to challenge the fire union and demand a complete overhaul of this drug policy. If he is unwilling to deal with this problem, what else is he allowing?
3) Washoe County District Attorney Chris Hicks
District attorneys like to be able to tell conservative voters that they have extremely high conviction rates for the criminals they prosecute. At the same time, they appease their liberal base by allowing “homeless” offenders to plead their crimes for next to nothing. Here’s an example from a few months ago in Reno.
A life-long criminal drifter has been asked to leave a private property where he has been illegally camping for more than a year. The property owner’s manager went to remove the loner who refused to leave. The tramp made numerous threats to kill the manager, then sent his 3 large dogs to attack him. The squatter then dropped his pants and repeatedly exposed himself to the manager. He then hit the manager’s truck causing over $20K in damage. Finally, the squatter tried to push the manager’s truck into a steep ravine with the manager inside.
How did DA Chris Hicks’ office handle this case? It refused to call key witnesses and present evidence in court. They only let the bum plead guilty to… a PUBLIC OFFENSE, a misdemeanor fine! Washoe County cannot solve its crime problems until a new district attorney is in office who is ready to protect the county’s residents and uphold the law with appropriate sentences.
4) Reno Mayor Hilary Sheave
What can you say about a mayor who admitted to ordering the homosexual flag to be flown at City Hall during her tenure, but when it was flown on the roof— on the spot of the American flag – she had “no idea” how this happened?
Mayor Scheeve also had “no idea” who told Reno police officers to stand down and allow George Floyd rioters to destroy City Hall and vandalize the police station, even though every cop who was privately questioned said the directive to “withdrawal” originates with the mayor?
What can you make of Scheeve’s success as mayor, who has presided over Reno as it fell from the “4th best city in the US” five years ago to 193rd in the latest national report?
What can you say about all this and more? How about: “Please, Mayor Sheeve, resign immediately before your senseless leadership completely destroys downtown Reno.”
5) The County CARES Homeless Campus
The adjectives are all you need to describe this red-hot mess:
Violent, 100% ineffective, drug-ridden, corrupt, dysfunctional, dirty and dangerous.
CARES Campus continues to incubate more and more dangerous vagrants and send them out to prey on the community. This will not stop until:
- Volunteers of America, Karma Box and federal funding have been terminated.
- All CARES property and programs are transferred to a non-profit alliance of local churches organized by proven successful church groups such as Victory Outreach and Gospel Mission.
6) The Washoe County Commissioners and their appointed library board trustees
Commissioners are entirely to blame for ignoring the homeless mess at the $75 million CARES Campus. All 5 commissioners, regardless of their claimed political affiliation, are spineless.
The librarians stood by and watched in fearful silence—
- Because the library director they run has made unlimited pornography available in all county libraries.
- It allows its flagship downtown library to be patronized daily by 80% derelict vagrants who satiate themselves watching pornography on the library computers for 7 hours every day, taking only periodic breaks to urinate by the main entrance, smoking meth just outside the front door and openly bathe in the same library bathrooms that children can use.
In 1776 patriot/preacher John Muhenberg said, “There is a time for all things. There is a time to fight and that time is now.
Reno Patriots of 2025, now is OUR time to follow the lead of “47” and fight for our community and its future…or soon we will wish we did.
About the author
Paul D. White is the founder of the Education Crusade. He welcomes feedback at [email protected].
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