According to several media outlets and her own publicity, Mesquite Councilwoman Annie Black is running for Nevada State Republican Party Chairmanship against current chairman Mike McDonald.
A meeting in Winnemucca this weekend will decide the outcome.
Black, who did not return phone calls, is running on a platform of rebuilding the Republican party in the state after the 2018 election in which Democrats were elected to all state level offices, including the governor, except one. Black said “there have been over 80 Republican losses in the last two election cycles statewide for which she blames McDonald.”
Black first ran for state assembly in Las Vegas in 2010 but didn’t win. She moved to Mesquite and won a seat on the Mesquite City Council in 2018. She has been the head of the Mesquite Republican Women’s group for several years. She is a real estate agent in Mesquite.
Black has been actively campaigning for McDonald’s seat having missed both city council meetings in August, most notably Aug. 27 when a crucial vote for Mesquite’s new city manager was held. She was hosting a fundraiser for her GOP chairmanship campaign in Las Vegas that night.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Black said, “She said she is not running to advance her own career, but rather to rebuild a party that should be boosting its donor networks while increasing outreach to communities of color, women and other demographic groups currently courted hard by Democrats.”
Also running against McDonald is the former Clark County Republican Party Chairman David McKeon.
McDonald is the longest-serving chairman in state party history according to the R-J. He said he has the endorsement of President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and that he is serving as chairman with the president’s wishes.
Gee and she told me herself that she was not using the city of Mesquite to boost her own political career. No matter what she says now, it is obviously rue that she is. She was elected to be a voting council member in the city of Mesquite. As mentioned, last week when the new city manager was voted in, she wasn’t even available by phone much less in person. I believe in her short tenure as a Mesquite city council member she has missed completely or called into more meetings that any of her predecessors.
I said it before and I will say it again, she won her seat by spending the most money, plain and simple. Her seat should have went to Karen Fielding who would be working for the betterment of the city of Mesquite, attending meetings and being involved in our city on a day to day basis. The “JOB” of city council person is a paid position. The city is not getting their monies worth out of you Ms. Black. It is time for you to step down.
Ms Black should resign from the City Council. I did not vote for her since it was obvious that she was only using the Council position to further her own interests. She owes the citizens an apology for missing the meetings.