Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey, R-Reno, will have a GOP primary election opponent in 2014.
Richard Fineberg, a retired lawyer who specialized in workers compensation cases, confirmed Tuesday he would run against Hickey in the Assembly District 25 race.
Now, the two Republicans who guided the Washoe school-tax bill (AB46) from the Legislature to the Washoe Commission — Hickey and Assemblyman Randy Kirner — both have GOP primary opponents.
Earlier, Lisa Kransner announced she would take on Kirner in the District 26 GOP primary. Kirner & Hickey were partners in getting AB 46 shipped to the commission, thus avoiding a tax-hike vote for Washoe school refurbishing in the Legislature that could have proven awkward.
Yet some constitutional conservatives — who adhere to the "no new taxes' ideology — were angered that Kirner and Hickey did not just kill the bill in Carson City.
Fineberg declined comment until after the holiday week.
He is a member of the Washoe County Republican Central Committee, has a B.A. in Psychology from UCLA and got his law degree from Southwestern University School of Law.
Fineberg is described as a constitutional conservative who is big on the 2nd Amendment rights (guns).
No doubt, Kransner and Fineberg will try to run to the right of the two incumbents. That is what you do to beat entrenched incumbents who are considered moderate.