Campaigns Make Strange Bedfellows

Wowee - Mayor Ed Lawson is moving up in the world. Picon is surprised Lombardo is working with Lawson since his opponent for Sparks Mayor Councilmember Charlene Bybee was one of Lombardo’s earliest supporters in Northern Nevada when he ran in 2022.

We get it. They love to call Picon hack journalism. Politicians and their entourage of pearl-clutching staffers practically salivate at the chance to wag a finger and shout, “biased!” or “irrelevant” - along with a number of PAC’s, political clubs, and organizations. And yet… they can’t stop reading.

Maybe it’s because we ask the questions they’d rather not answer — like this one:

Is Governor Joe Lombardo using the wife of his chief of staff, Danielle Cherry, to quietly fundraise for his 2026 re-election campaign?

Because from where we’re sitting, that looks like more than just uncomfortable optics. And the fact that this particular fundraising effort is paired with Sparks Mayor Ed Lawson only makes the political theatre that much juicier.

After all, wasn’t Lombardo once a proud union member - or at the very least a public employee? A background Mayor Lawson recently took to Facebook to blast with all the grace of a late-night comment section during the legislative session. Ah yes, the very people Lombardo used to stand beside are now the rhetorical punching bags of his fundraising co-host. How quickly we forget.

As for the so-called “roundtable” — capped at a cozy, elite 10-person limit — we can only imagine the topics. Will Lawson be reminiscing about his legislative flops during the 83rd session? Maybe the failure to push through Sparks' attempt to charge for public records? Or the wildly unpopular toll road that continues to circle the drain like a bad idea with a GPS?

We’re not here to make friends — clearly. But we are here to point out when power starts getting just a little too cozy for comfort.

So yes, keep calling us names. We’ll keep asking questions.

Because someone has to.