North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee takes questions from students during a virtual leadership assembly at the Somerset Academy, a charter school in North Las Vegas, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. Lee was the featured speaker.
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North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee has a message for skeptics who say he won’t follow through and officially file to run for Nevada governor.
“I’m not going anywhere, all right?” Lee told the Sun this week.
Lee is part of a crowded field of eight Republicans who want to face incumbent Gov. Steve Sisolak in November’s general election. First, they’ll have to file in March as a candidate for the June 14 Republican primary.
And Lee admits hearing rumblings that he won’t follow through and file for the nomination, which he says are false.
“You have to know that I am a very serious person,” he said. “I wouldn’t even consider running for governor if I didn’t think I could do better.”
The former Democrat has been the mayor of North Las Vegas since 2013. He also served in the Nevada Assembly from 1997 to 2001 and in the Nevada Senate from 2004 to 2012.
Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore has also faced claims that she could be dropping out of the race, but her campaign tossed those rumors aside.
“That’s ridiculous,” campaign manager Rory McShane said in an email. Fiore has raised almost $600,000, “gathered the most prominent conservative endorsements, and (is) steadily gaining in the polls. They need to do something to slow her down.”
