Will Berkley Listen To These Nevada Job Creators Or Continue To Ignore Them?

Yesterday, small business owners from Henderson, Las Vegas and Reno came to Washington, D.C. to tell President Barack Obama, Senator Harry Reid and Congresswoman Shelley Berkley that their burdensome regulations are killing jobs. 

Additionally, former Democrat Senator Blanche Lincoln who is currently the Chairwoman of the Small Business for Sensible Regulations and Dan Danner, President of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) penned a letter to President Obama where they reminded him that small business owners are the engine of our great economy and requested that his Administration halt any new regulations until small businesses are given a fair opportunity to offer their opinion on any new rules.     

As the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports:

Several Nevada business owners in Washington on Tuesday joined a campaign by the small business lobby calling on President Barack Obama to ease up on new regulations they said are adding to the squeeze of a bad economy. … Henderson dentist Diane Stacey, her husband Las Vegas contractor Buddy Byrd, and Valerie Clark, president of Reno insurance brokerage Clark & Associates, took the message to meetings with Republican lawmakers from the state.  “My OSHA manual right now weighs nine pounds,” Stacey said between meetings. “We had to take OSHA classes to figure out what the regulations were, and then I pay a compliance (consultant) $3,600 a year to come in and make sure I am in compliance with OSHA.” …  Byrd, who operates Byrd Underground LLC and employs 20 people, said Environmental Protection Agency rules for diesel fuel emissions that go into effect in 2014 “will completely shut down my business.” (Steve Tetreault, SoNev business owners call for new regulation time out, Review-Journal, 11/01/11)

“When will Shelley Berkley listen to the dentist in Henderson, the insurance agent in Reno or the thousands of other small business owners in Nevada who are telling her that her party’s burdensome government regulations are killing jobs?” asked National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Jahan Wilcox.  “With over 175,000 unemployed Nevadans it’s clear that Berkley’s refusal to help repeal these job-killing regulations are only adding to Nevada’s economic woes.”