Bob Beers
Nevada State Governer Candidate
CPA

Professional History:

Since November 2003, Beers works as VP of Corporate Communications for Payroll Solutions, a Nevada-based regional provider of outsourced human resources services to small and medium sized business.

A Certified Public Accountant, Beers founded Las Vegas computer accounting consultants Wilson, Beers & Alu in 1989, and sold it to a large local CPA firm in 2002.

Prior to his licensure as a Certified Public Accountant, Beers worked for radio broadcasting companies in Reno and Las Vegas as News Director. In 1982, he won "Best Miniseries" and "Best Newscast" awards from the Associated Press in the AP's Medium Market California-Nevada-Hawaii division.

Political History:

In 1998, Beers was elected to the Nevada Assembly (Nevada's legislature is part-time, meeting four months every two years). As Assemblyman representing District 4, Beers served in three regular and three special session. He was assigned to the Ways & Means, Commerce & Labor, and Elections, Procedures & Ethics committees of the Assembly.

In 2003, Beers led the opposition to Governor Guinn's $1.25-billion dollar, 33% increase in state spending and taxing. The following year he was elected to the Nevada Senate, defeating a 20-year incumbent Republican who had supported the increases.

For the 2005 Legislative Session, Beers was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, where he helped direct about half the Senate Republicans' traditional "pork" spending toward reducing the Nevada Income Tax (Payroll Tax) by 3%. He also served as a member of the Committees on Natural Resources and Legislative Operations. As a Senator, Beers has already served one regular session and two special sessions.

Beers is currently working to gather signatures to put a TABOR amendment on the November 2006 general election ballot.

Beers moved to Las Vegas at age 11, graduating from Clark High School (with high honors) in 1977, and from UNLV (with distinction) with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree in 1987.

His community activities have included or include: volunteer treasurer for Southern Nevada Clean Communities and the Nevada Republican Party; president of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Business Expo; and President-elect for the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Business Council. As a volunteer, he has created or maintained websites for over a dozen community organizations. He is a member of the Las Vegas Northwest Rotary Club , Nevada Society of Certified Public Accountants , US Chess Federation , and the American Mining History Association .

If enacted, TASC for Nevada will add a new article to the Nevada Constitution:

• To guarantee the people of Nevada that they shall henceforth hold the final Constitutional authority when efforts are made to increase their state or local tax burdens;
• To keep normal spending increases at all government levels within the limits of percentage growth in population plus percentage increase in inflation;
• To allow spending increases above those same limits when approved by the voters of Nevada or of the relevant city or county;
• To establish a new constitutionally protected Emergency Reserve Fund to meet unforeseen catastrophic emergencies such as natural disasters or major terrorist attacks;
• To establish a new constitutionally protected Budget Stabilization (or “Rainy Day”) Fund to automatically assure more stable budgets during economic downturns;
• To return excess tax revenues to taxpayers when those tax revenues accumulate above (a) the constitutional spending limit and (b) the ceilings of the emergency reserve and budget stabilization funds;
• To establish constitutional protection for local governments against the practice of unfunded mandates imposed by the state legislature.