So, Sparks Mayor Ed Lawson... Where do we even start? This guy's mayoral skills are about as impressive as a participation trophy. It'd be funny if it wasn't so frustrating for Sparks residents who barely voted him in back in 2022. You'd think scraping by would make him step up his game, but nah – he's doubled down on the chaos. Enter: The Facebook drama.

At first look, the video shows Sparks city officials awkwardly dancing — if clapping and jerky movements performed out of synch can pass for dancing — to celebrate the Fourth of July. Clearly, these bureaucrats can’t follow a beat. In fact, the beat eludes them entirely. It has fled in terror.

It’s not stolen valor, not exactly, but there is still something uncomfortable and objectionable about Kristopher Dahir using his position as a board member of Nevada Veterans Memorial Plaza to boost his re-election campaign to the Sparks City Council.

In Sparks, the city council's latest performance was less about civic duty and more about damage control. On Monday, July 22, 2024, Mayor Lawson played agenda Jenga, removing key items faster than a magician's sleight of hand, one has to wonder: Is this transparency or just making things conveniently opaque?

Who else watched the City of Sparks Council meeting on Monday, June 24, 2024? Okay, like almost no one, according to YouTube there we 97 views

In a twist of political intrigue, Sparks City Councilmember Kristopher Dahir finds himself with a brewing controversy that exposes potential double standards in local government's approach to controversial groups.

If it isn't the bumbling buffalo herd of Sparks City Councilmen preening and pawing at new lows of small-town campaign shenanigans. This sordid video exposition lays bare the cringeworthy politics we've come to expect from Mayor Lawson’s coterie of credibility-bereft male council members.

Councilman Kristopher Dahir seems to be reduced to wince-inducingly juvenile lows in his desperation against challenger Washoe County School Board Trustee Joe Rodriguez.

Our inbox was flooded with copies of Sparks City Councilmember Ward 5 Kristopher Dahir's campaign mailer, raising suspicions that the Regional Transportation Commission bankrolled this bad boy. While we're sure they kept their hands clean, the mailer reads more like a RTC infomercial than a council reelection campaign pitch.

Councilman Donald Abbott reminds everyone and anyone within listening distance he was the youngest person ever elected to the Sparks City Council. Who do we blame for that, you the voter, who seem to have been sold a bill of goods by “The Donald.”

Monday, May 13, 2024, will be the first Community Homeless Advisory Board Meeting since September 11, 2023. When we were sent these photos from a Nevada Wins Pac Gala $500 per seat dinner, with the keynote speaker being none other than Congressman Mark Amodei we were struct with the idea of homeless and an expensive Republican dinner.

Councilmember Kristopher Dahir has been in a public social media battle with Commissioner Mike Clark about the Nevada Cares Campus and Community Homeless Advisory Board meetings. Dahir who expounds on how he understands the plight of the homeless might think about a ‘$500 per plate dinner’ vs ‘champion of the homeless’ optics.

Picon realizes we are going to get slapped around the block for this question, but the candidate and his family has opened the gate on our path of inquiry. Ultimately, it is the job of the media to ask uncomfortable questions about medical issues of political candidates in order to uphold the principles of transparency and accountability in government.

At yesterday’s Sparks City Council Meeting, Commissioner Mike Clark not only took the time to call out Mayor Ed Lawson, but also took a minute to challenge voters in the City of Sparks rid themselves of the three incumbents Kristopher Dahir, Donald Abbott, and Paul Anderson.

Picon’s Publisher, Larry Chesney, has been chewing on publishing readers opinion for about a year now, and this week he said, “What the hell, let’s do it.”

In watching the Monday, January 8, 2024, Sparks City Council meeting you could feel the discomfort oozing from Chris Barrett, of Barrett Resources when he was stuck ‘singing for his supper’ addressing the council to get his $90,000 fee, continuing to lobby for the elusive Lands Bill approval. We say elusive since Barrett has been collecting money thanks to the Lands Bill from the City of Sparks since 2019 and it amounts to a tidy amount. As Chris Garvey, who Mayor Ed Lawson barely beat in the 2022 race (Garvey was unknown and Lawson having been appointed mayor after the death of Ron Smith had been a city councilmember since 2010. Lawson with 51.1% squeaked by Garvey’s 48.9% - about 800 votes) stated during public comment Barrett has been paid over $350,000. Garvey went onto mention a prior Picon Press Media article on July 30, 2022, about Barrett and Lawson’s friendship. Garvey took the time to remind Councilmembers Dahir, Anderson, and Abbott they are facing reelection. Her comments didn’t seem to phase the trio because Lawson’s boys, Don, Paul, and Kris seemed happy to renew Barrett and Scott Bensing’s contract (SB Strategic Consulting) with no questions asked, unlike Bybee.

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