ESA blame game splits Nevada GOP

Nevada Republicans are split over who is to blame for the failure to fund the state’s dormant education savings accounts.

Some Republican lawmakers blast the Legislature’s Democratic majority, accusing it of negotiating in bad faith with no intention of ever funding the program.

Other Republicans, however, have directed their ire within the party. They wanted Gov. Brian Sandoval to “go to the mat” for ESAs.

“I put it squarely on the shoulders of Governor Sandoval,” Assemblyman Ira Hansen, R-Sparks, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

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