Ethics, Entertainment Economics, & Tourism
Reviving Nevada
Tourist Economy
International policies & greed collapsed tourism, but its fragility highlighted underlying cracks in domestic earnings that existed long before. Nevada lost the highest amount of domestic tourism revenue with gen-z and millennial travelers who still opt for an annual week long vacation, no matter how tight their budgets are. Nevada is not a hot spot right now. What's the fix? "We pivot. We need entirelty new strategies and budget reform to make renovating tourism to the needs of all generations possible."
- cultural entertainment
- animal sanctuaries
- excursions to dark star tourism & nature
- childcare/ childzones
- mass & cheap transportation
- mid-tier concert venues
- museum districts
- native exhibits and collabs
- meditation zones
- art retreats
- theatre districts
- retreats
- wellness culture
- recycling
- ebikes and scooters
- varying dietary food menus
- sober culture
- decriminalizing psilicyobin
- classical music features
- indigenous
- festivals
- cannabis events
- underground dance clubs
- silent discos
- theme parks
- historical tour
Live Entertainment Tax
Many residents don't realize that outside of property, gaming, & sales taxes, The Live Entertainment Tax "LET" helps fund a big chunk of our state's revenue. It's a statewide, industry tax & is the highest taxed labor sector on the strip - despite paying its workers low show rates & union busting.
The LET contributes to 1/3 of the state's revenue, 97% is generated in Vegas, & the only labor sectors paying for it are theatre and music arts industries.
Who's exempt?
"Despite generating 50-200 times more in revenue than theatre shows due to live stream capability, merch, sponsors, & ticket volume, pro-sports which are also male dominant industries are exempt."
- Nascar
- Knights
- Raiders
- UFC
14 shows have closed and many venues are opting out. Difficult permits and unnecessary business licensing has also detered entertainment from staying in state, but the Live Entertainment tax at this percentage is also why more female producers, and independent entertainment companies can't actually create a show in Nevada. Tax reform on the LET will generate more money for other government programs and allowed low paid industries to earn a livable wage. This money is tied to everything Nevada wants but never had the money for. With fair LET tax reforms we can fund it all.
AI & Data Centers
Parts of rural Nevada do not have clean water. Children use bottled water to brush teeth because of polluted soil from data centers. Southern Nevada doesn't talk about this nor is it written about.
Why aren't candidates in the legislature who voted to support this funding aware?
They are. Read on.
NV provided $457 million in tax abatements for data centers without regulating them. Many of our politicians, including my opponent, took maximum donations from data centers.
The consequences specific to Nevada due to our water, job, & power crises:
- polluted environment
- temp jobs
- no long term jobs
- unemployment
- water crisis
- utility prices
- work conditions
- contaminated drinking water
- animals endangerment
The minute Nevada rejected film, it selected AI. Both produce tech and media which is the global currency in modern times. "If people know, we can halt further production & pivot. We are now the fastest growing market for AI data centers." Entertainment and Film have been fighting AI for over ten years. Scheiner is not new to this battle and she's on the side of the people.
Transportation
Right now NV is behind on public transportation and this has hurt our economy, spiked inflation, decreased tourism, & increased our car insurance.
What will benefit?
1. Less DUIs
2. Save Lives
3. Boost Tourism
4. Expand Employment
5. Decrease Car Insurance
6. Minimize parking scarcities
Limited flights, no high speed rails, no city trams, nor above ground rails prevents tourists and local travelers from exploring the state. Casinos need to offer complimentary shuttles to airports & tourist destinations. Price Included transportation to nature excursions and direct travel to dark star destinations needs to funded. Ebikes, bike lanes, and scooters are also great alternatives for shorter distances. Safer 24 hour public transport for casino workers needs to be available.
Vegas' has the most expensive car insurance. Intoxicated tourists is a contibutor. Cheap public transport would massively decrease drunk driving and prevent locals from having to pay for it in insurance while making the city safer & preventing DUI related tragedies.
Family Support & Programs
Let's Make it Better
Education
BridgieNix' 2.4 B annual plan includes:
- $4000-$6000 PPF increase
- $150 million/ year for addtl resources
- college funding
- trades programs
- montessori, wellness, & arts programs
- paid interships and dual credit courses
- teacher salary increases
- stronger special needs programs
- increasing enrollment by offering programs charters have + more
- smaller class sizes
Childcare
Lack of childcare is one of the biggest contributors to gender inequities and pay gaps in all labor sectors. Women are disproportionately effected by Nevada's outdated childcare systems which prevents them from having higher level managerial and executive opportunities. The amount of Women in executive positions in every corporation and casino in Nevada puts us far behind many states and countries. Our lack of childcare is also a direct cause to homelessness and poverty. Outside of that, Nevada not offering child zones and childcare into tourism is why American families choose us last to travel to. Childcare fixes employment, inequity, & tourism all in one.
Healthcare
As more employers decrease hours, workers are on call/ part time, & more government, veteran, and healthcare workers are losing their benefits, healthcare solutions are urgent. BridgieNix knows this well. She has navigated ACA cut credits, a broken medicaid system where the social workers are underpaid and don't respond, lack of specialists, & Nevada's new system that's difficult to navigate.
She has developed a plan to make healthcare $10 for anyone making under 6 figures that will eventually transfer into an alternative fully covered universal option as the rest of her 2.4 B annual budget plan increases. People can opt for private healthcare, but a better alternative needs to exist for everyone who doesn't have employer sponsored insurance. Additionally she has plans to reopen rural hospitals and incentivize specialists, expanding maternity wards..
Affordability & Housing
Even people with jobs are not avoiding debt. From student loans, medical bills, groceries, parking, gas, transportation, car insurance, housing/rent, taxes, HOAs, etc, there is not one Nevadan that is vibing under current circumstances. The cost of living has not only inflated but the services and subscriptions required to function in modern society are way beyond what the generation of our current Lieutenant Governor ever had to endure when forming his family. He grew up before the internet existed and linkedin, indeed, website hosting, internet, cell phone, etc wasn't required just to obtain a job. It's time the state steps in where society as a whole is failing gen z, millenials, and gen x trying to keep their families fed or wanting to start families but can't afford to.
Housing Solutions:
- rent moratorium
- pet friendly housing
- eliminate pet breed bans & pet rent
- cost reductions
- credits for homebuyers
- tiny home and container homes
- eliminate corporate housing
- transfer tax
- eviction & foreclosure prevention
- HOA regulatio & prevention of liens
- sustainble ownerhsip
- reserve assessment assistance
- credit score barrier solutions
- redtape barriers elimination
- ethical & solar housing
Civil Rights & Humanitarian Causes
Let's Be Good People
Voting Rights & Equity
As Civil Rights continue to dwindle at the federal level we must protect them within the state. Voting rights have been attacked from the recent Supreme Court ruling effecting gerrymandering in black and latino districts to proposals that would dominantly prevent Women & trans people from voter access. BridgieNix can't fathom that that is where we are as a nation, but she vows to protect voter rights at all costs to leave room to fight urgent crises.
The pay and wage gap within the casinos and elsewhere for every marginalized worker is inexcusable. There are so many qualified marginalized workers who do not have access to higher executive roles or pay in casinos and corporations. In 2026 this is inexcusable. I am excited to creative incentives that push for diverse hires and reopens investigations into systemically racist hiring practices, particularly in the casinos.
"The inequity wage gap must be addressed."
- legislative reform
- regular pay audits
- baby bond programs
- child care & paid leave
- equal pay laws
- pay transparency requirements
- ending subminimum pay wages
- raising minimum wage to $25/ hour
(abatements available for small businesses who can't afford that rate)
LGBTQ+
Nevada is on human rights watch lists due to the current Lieutenant Governor's anti-trans forces and moves to attack trans youth. As more federal protections for queer communities get overturned & SCOTUS rolls back progress, BridgieNix ensures to protect human rights & that Nevada becomes a sanctuary state for those who face safety issues elsewhere.
"There is no world where endangering children, harming adults, & attacking trans people is acceptable, ethical, or economical. It's not creating jobs, healthcare, food, tourism boosts, & if anything is a huge contributor to why gen z and millennials won't come to Nevada. If Stavros had an economic plan, he would have enforced it by now - instead he's trapping Nevadans into inhumane culture wars that nobody wants. I have plans to fix the economy that doesn't require dragging people into danger. "
- fund crises responses
- emergency housing permitting pets
- conversion therapy bans for all ages
- resource centers
- pro-bono outpatient psych services
- pro-bono outpatient therapy
- trans youth inclusivity
- simplified ID changes
- job opportunities for trans Nevadans
- ending discriminatory hiring practicies
- funded gender affirming care
- hate crime prevention
- expand hate crime qualifications
- harsher sentencing for hate crimes
- suicide prevention
- antibullying programs in schools
- suicide support groups
- statewide training for crises hotlines
- free STD & HIV testing, prevention, & care
- "queer safe zones"
- deregulate barriers for performers
ICE & Immigration Rights
Every 1 in 5 people in Nevada are migrants. Many casinos hire hospitality workers & gaming dealers directly from cruise ships. Additionally, many performers are hired internationally on 0-1 visas for specialized work in the shows as a circus artist or performer.
Before DHS crackdowns, as gaming and entertainment slowed in Nevada, migrants faced displacement and were in harm's way due to outdated visa barriers that prevent workers from seeking income in other fields. Outdated documentatio systems and slow DHS processing combined with Trump's changes & illegal ICE activity, put performers, families, and the workers that keep Nevada's economy alive at risk.
BridgieNix believes in upholding our constitutional rights and believes ICE has been an anti-American establishment violating our 1st, 4th, 5th, & equal protections by racial profiling & using illegal fear tactics against migrants & citizens alike. Like many progressives who value civil rights, BridgieNix believes in abolishing ice entirely. At the state level here's what her plans are:
- end cooperations with federal authorities
- remove metro PD from cooperations
- create safe zones
- legal protections for natives who lost citizenship due to federal terminations
- end detention contracts with all local jails
- investigations on proper warrants
- provide legal aid and affordable resources
- faster processing for pending documentation
- sheriff oversight
- stop state resources funding ICE
- educate on rights
Women's Rights & Repro Access
Sexual harrassment, retaliation, demotions, & discrimination occur w/o accountability. Nevada has made little progress. From lack of childcare, pregnancy leave, health benefits, maternity leave, etc., the casinos have made it impossible to obtain livable wages as a mother. Non-existent benefits make pregnancy hard to navigate while working.
"I have PCOS and am a huge repro rights advocate. I will fight to ensure draconian laws made by men who don't have understand our bodies are gone."
Nevada remains a pro-choice state, but as federal rights regress, Nevada needs to invest in specialists, resources, infrastructure, and maternity care. A Woman was wrongfully prosecuted in Nevada and imprisoned for 2 years on a felony charge for miscarrying. Even in pro-choice states, the laws fail. The $100K paid will never get years of her life back.
- Fund IVF
- Rural maternity wards and hospitals
- Vote Yes on Question 6 in November
- Fund research for PCOS & Endometriosis
- Research pregnancy complications
- Free menstrual products in schools
- Diagnostic testing after 2nd miscarriage
- Teach quality sex education to all youth
- Fund abortion, plan B, & Birth control
- Ensure only a doctor and the individual is involved reproductive decisions
- Expand loopholes to allow later term abortions so pregnancies stop ending in infertility or preventable harm & death
- Free formula, diapers, & care
- Fund postpartum therapy
- Fund menopause therapy
- Fund hormones
- Hormonal testing for diseases
- Fund egg donors
- Sanctuary state for pregnant people
Workers' Rights
After watching union busting, low wages, hazardous work conditions, & minimal protections in NV's corporate work place, BridgieNix vowed to protect venerable workers, non union industries, and migrants. She supports ending right to work, card-checks, ending misclassifications, & bring the power back to the people not the overheads. Read more about her plans for the working class here & her legislative advocacy and meetings below.
1. Workplace Psychological Abuse Act
BridgieNix has been working with Terry Chi to get this act, part of the national "End Workplace Abuse" sponsored. She has worked endlessly to communicate with unions, bringing statewide written and verbal testimony, and has testified 3 times in regards to her personal experience to push for better protections in Nevada where the EEOC / NERC / HR fail. This would protect all workers statewide.
Watch her Labor Committe Testimony
2. Overturning SB8
SB8 was the senate bill in last year's special session that reinstated Nevada corporations right to steal wages from employees. They stated it was a standard read on the federal Portal-to-Portal Act, but it actually meant that payroll performers on the strip, amazon workers, and many other groups without union reps do not get paid for the work they did. This also prevents workers from doing class action lawsuits when wage theft laws have still been violated, protecting the corporations & preventing Nevadans from earning additional income. This must be overturned and fixed immediately.
One of BridgieNix' opponents who currently serves on assembly and is funded by many corporations voted to enact this wage theft bill which requires performers to do anywhere from 20-200 hours of unpaid work in a month.
3. Entertainment Bill of Rights
BridgieNix is drafting Nevada's very first Entertainment Bill of Rights. This would protect and secure a lot of common sense policies most imagine performers already have, but specific to Nevada, do not. During her campaign tour, BridgieNix met with many state leaders and all admitted they didn't know that entertainers weren't unionized.
"Performers in Nevada make the lowest wages in the world despite the highest budget. There are flaws in the business side of entertainment management in casinos, but another factor is lack of state regulations. What a circus artist can make in CA is 10 - 100 times. How are we home to the entertainment capital of the world?
- transparent pay on auditions
- addtl work paid separate from show rates
- Non-competes banned & face penalties
- NDA's require buyouts and transparency
- Suspensions w/o pay banned
- Worker's Comp termination faces fines
- Osha expansion to offer performer safety
- Costume safety and longevity
- 2 hour maximums for auditions
- 2nd+ Call backs must be compensated
- Shows do not own the rights to artist created pieces without a $1M min buyout
- artists required to create as an audition must be compensated
- Shows with minimum of 6 performances per week must provide health benefits
- 6th day of shows is double overtime
- shows with only 5-10 sick days per year must pay Dancer's Alliance Rates
- Shows paying performers 6 figures up, offering full benefits exempt from LET
- holiday and hazard pay bonuses reqd
- techs on 6 days must get paid overtime