In the Pahrump Valley Times (March 17, 2010 issue, page A9) is reporter Mark Waite’s coverage of Nancy Lord who is seeking election to represent the Republican Party in the June 8 primary election for District Attorney of Nye County.
Nancy Lord, attorney for the Concerned Citizens for a Safe Community (CCSC) is a candidate for Nye County district attorney competing in the June 8 Republican primary. She is running against four other Republicans for Republican nomination.
The other Republicans are incumbent Bob Beckett and former Nye County Chief Civil Deputy District Attorney Ron Kent, Michael Root and Charles G. Watkins. This post will focus on Lord.
She ran for vice president on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1992 as the running mate of Andre Marrou. They placed fourth in the popular vote with 432,179 votes, a half-percent of the total.
She received her law degree from Georgetown University. Until 1983 she worked for Abbott Laboratories. She was on the board of directors for the National Association for the Reform of Marijuana Law (NORML) and for the Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA).
Lord came to Pahrump in to stay in July 2006.
She filed a series of lawsuits to block the federal detention center. The lawsuits centered around alleged failure of Nye County Officials to hold publicized public meetings over approving the detention center. They all failed.
“Had I been advising the commissioners, these meetings would have been publicized,” Lord said. “I’d like to think about it as a lost dog. You notice when somebody loses a dog, you see it everywhere. Something as serious as a scoping meeting for a detention center should have been publicized as widely as when someone loses a dog.”
Lord says she is the most qualified candidate for DA. Her election is a chance to make a difference for the town, she said.
“I see a real problem with property they deserve and are real devastating to the victims. I see political prosecutions, such as Harley Kulkin’s, that are a huge waste of resources and shouldn’t be happening,” Lord said.
Lord says she is fundamentally still a Libertarian. She is against marijuana laws but will prosecute offenders as long as the drug is illegal in Nevada. Lord said she won’t prosecute a case where someone’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated due to an illegal search.
“I am not required to represent the county commissioners personally. I will represent Nye County as if it’s a corporate client, and I have over a decade of experience in that regard,” she said.
She proposes to begin training sessions for deputy DAs.
“I’ve got 20 years’ experience as an attorney and additional experience beyond that as an attorney. I’ve managed staff,” Lord said.
During the consumer session for the Utilities Inc. rate increase Thursday, Lord said she wouldn’t prosecute anyone who refused to let an inspector on their property to look at their water meter. She also wouldn’t enforce any law that required Pahrump residents on wells to hook up to a water and sewer grid.
[Source: Pahrump Valley Times. The PVT issue of March 17, 2010 is not online as of this writing. It should be available on line sometime later today. Links to external sources have been added to provide the reader with groups mentioned in Mr. Waite’s article in the PVT. The photo of Ms. Lord if from Mr. Waite’s article in the PVT. With my thanks.]
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Hi NyeGateway -
Thank you so much for your coverage. I just want to clear up the confusion about my residence. I have been a Pahrump resident since January of 1998, but had second homes in Florida and later Missouri. For awhile, my Pahrump home was a 5th wheel because the house had burned down, but it was on my property.
In 2006 I did return briefly, but then went to Missouri for about a little over a year. I bought my new home from Chateaux Homes during the 2007 Thanksgiving holiday, and moved into it in April, 2008.
Just trying to keep the facts straight, please use at your discretion.
Thank you for your comment. And thanks for straightening out any factual errors in the blog post.
Good Luck and Thank you for fighting to protect the people of Nye.
tried to call and email you. I need your assistance in Nye County. Are you available?
Please call: 530-228-7741 asap