Danny Tarkanian is a proud Nevadan and former UNLV basketball star who as its point guard once led UNLV’s team to 24 straight wins and the school’s first ever number one NCAA ranking.
At UNLV Danny graduated with high honors and was the school's first Rhodes Scholar candidate. Danny also received the prestigious NCAA post-graduate award, given to the student-athletes that most excel in both the classroom and in athletics.
Upon graduating Danny attended law school at the University of San Diego. Danny graduated 3rd in his class, magna cum laude and was also named to the Law Review. After law school Danny returned to Las Vegas and passed the Nevada Bar exam. He subsequently practiced law for seven years. During this period his father led the UNLV Rebels to three Final Four appearances and the National Championship in 1990.
Today, Danny runs a real estate business and is co-director of the Tarkanian Basketball Academy, which teaches over 350 Clark County kids. The students learn basketball skills and life skills such as work ethic, overcoming adversity, teamwork and sportsmanship.
Danny’s family is the most important part of his life. He and his wife Amy live in Las Vegas with their three daughters, Lois, Ava and Ashley.
Teaching is a natural outlet for Danny at the Tarkanian Basketball Academy., because he comes from a long line of educators. His father, Jerry, was a successful California Junior College coach who went on to obtain his MA in Educational Administration and become one of the winningest coaches in college basketball history at UNLV.
Danny's mother, Lois Huter Tarkanian, was an educator of children with special needs who went on to become an administrator and earn a PhD degree in Human Behavior. While in California she started the first private school for the deaf in California, chaired the state's aphasia committee and started one of the first programs for autistic children. Well-respected by Democrats in the State, she was elected as a Democrat to the Clark County School Board for 12 straight years.
Steeped in the family traditions of education, Danny Tarkanian decided to seek public service.
In 2006, Danny earned 230,000 votes in the race for Nevada Secretary of State.
Danny Tarkanian’s political philosophy is based on constitutional conservatism and liberty. He believes in limited government and opposes the government takeover of private sector industries. He believes in a smaller government that – with some occasional help – leaves the average person free to achieve his or her ambitions.
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The Constitution Matters: It Means What It Says
by Danny TarkanianThe Constitution and the Second Amendment are in the spotlight this week on two fronts. First is that oral arguments are being held in the McDonald v Chicago case to possibly apply the holding in Heller to the states.
In addition, Senators are beginning their evaluation of the judicial nomination of Berkeley professor Goodwin Liu to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a vote that will tell a great deal about Senator Reid’s adherence to Constitutional principles such as those specified in the Second Amendment.
Senator Reid has a terrible record on judicial nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court. In DC v Heller, there were four dissenters from the holding that the right to bear arms is an individual right. Harry Reid had a chance to vote on three and he voted for each one – Breyer, Souter and Ginsburg. Harry Reid has a chance to vote on four of the majority justices, and he voted against three of them – Thomas, Alito and Roberts. If Harry Reid had been successful in defeating any of these three, Heller would have been in jeopardy. That’s six out of seven bad votes on the Supreme Court.
Four of those bad votes were cast in his very first term, when my primary opponent Sue Lowden was his loyal contributor.
There will be hearings on professor Liu, but I am specifically interested in a particular book he co-authored on jurisprudence entitled “Keeping Faith with the Constitution.”
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It’s Time to Opt Out of Senator Reid’s Government Health Care Utopia
by Danny TarkanianIn the very near future, Senator Reid is going to follow Speaker Pelosi’s lead and try to pass his Senate version of the liberal utopian health care plan – a full, unabashed socialist-style takeover of our nation’s health care system.
Senator Reid said health care reform would cover the uninsured, but we’ve already learned it will drive up our premiums – forcing more of us into a Big Brother system with inevitable rationing. He said health care reform would lower costs by itself, but he’s now considering massive tax increases on small business to pay its trillion dollar price tag. He’s promised more competition in health care, but only offers massive government, disguised as phony competition in the form of the taxpayer-subsidized “government option.”
Premium increases, tax increases, and socialized medicine. Make no mistake. Senator Reid is willing to destroy Nevada’s – and the nation’s economy, to pay the ransom demands of the radical left for his re-election.
Senator Reid may think he rules America from his gilded Capitol perch, but I believe that ‘We the People’ still have hope to defeat him, and I have a plan.
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