Robert T. Beers (born October 14, 1959) is an American accountant (CPA) and member of the
Republican Party
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who was a 2018 candidate for Nevada Treasurer. He was previously an elected member of the
Las Vegas City Council
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from 2012 to 2017,
Nevada Assembly
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from 1998 to 2004 and the
Nevada Senate
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from 2005 to 2008. He ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for
Governor of Nevada
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in
2006
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and in January 2014, he announced that he would run against
Democratic Senator
Harry Reid
Harry Mason Reid Jr. (; December 2, 1939 – December 28, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Nevada from 1987 to 2017. He led the Senate Democratic Caucus from 2005 to 2017 and was the Sena ...
in the
2016 U.S. Senate election, but he withdrew from the race in June 2015. In 2018, he was defeated for State Treasurer by
Zach Conine
Zachary Beare Conine (born October 20, 1981) is an American attorney, businessman and politician from the U.S. state of Nevada. He is currently the Nevada State Treasurer.
Biography
Conine was raised in New York. He graduated from Cornell Unive ...
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Early and personal life
Beers moved to Las Vegas at age 11, graduating from
Ed W. Clark High School
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The campus was designed by architects Zick & Sharp, and constructed by the Del E. Web ...
with high honors in 1977 and from the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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with distinction with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree in 1987.
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His community activities include: current volunteer treasurer for the Old Spanish Trail Association, with past treasurer service to Southern Nevada Clean Communities, the Tonopah Historic Mining Park Foundation, 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.
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Professional career
A Certified Public Accountant
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(CPA) since 1989, Beers founded Las Vegas computer accounting consultants Wilson, Beers & Alu in 1989, and sold it to a large local CPA firm in 2002. This company specialized in PC-based networks with multi-user accounting software. From 2004-2007, he was the marketing director for an outsourcer of HR. In 2009, he started Seale and Beers, CPAs, an auditor of small public companies, which he managed until 2012. He currently consults business owners on their treasuries.
Before becoming a Certified Public Accountant, Beers worked for radio broadcasting companies in Reno, Nevada
Reno ( ) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada-California border, about north from Lake Tahoe, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World". Known for its casino and tourism industry, Reno is the ...
and Las Vegas as News Director. At KMJJ
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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 career
In 1998, Beers was elected to the Nevada Assembly
The Nevada Assembly is the lower house of the Nevada Legislature, the state legislature (United States), state legislature of the U.S. state of Nevada, the upper house being the Nevada Senate. The body consists of 42 members, elected to two-year ...
, the lower house of Nevada's Legislature. As Assemblyman representing District 4, Beers served in three regular and three special sessions. He was assigned to the Ways & Means, Commerce & Labor, and Elections, Procedures & Ethics committees of the Assembly.
In 2003, Beers led a group of legislators in opposition to Governor Kenny Guinn
Kenneth Carroll Guinn (August 24, 1936 – July 22, 2010), was an American academic administrator, businessman and politician who served as the 27th Governor of Nevada from 1999 to 2007 and interim president of the University of Nevada, Las Vega ...
's tax increases, citing concerns that they might damage Nevada's economy. After several special sessions, Beers' voting bloc failed and the tax increases were passed. The following year, Beers was elected to the Nevada Senate, defeating 20-year incumbent Republican Ray Rawson who had supported the increases.
Beers served in the Nevada Senate
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for the 2005 and 2007 Legislative sessions. He was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, where he worked on the complex state budget. He also served as a member of the Committees on Natural Resources and Legislative Operations.
In 2006, Beers and his supporters gathered over 150,000 signatures to put a Taxpayer Bill of Rights amendment (called TASC for Tax And Spend Control) on the November 2006 general election ballot, which proposed that increases in spending greater than the sum of inflation and population growth require an affirmative vote of citizens.
He ran for Governor of Nevada
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in the 2006 election, but finished second in the Republican primary, behind U.S. Representative Jim Gibbons, who would go on to win the general election.
In 2008, Beers was defeated for re-election by Democrat
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Allison Copening. Beers sued for defamation, and the Nevada Democratic Party settled out-of-court in 2010. He held no further public office until 2012, when Beers was elected to the non-partisan Las Vegas City Council in a nine-way special election to fill the vacant seat of Councilman Steve Wolfson, who had been appointed Clark County District Attorney. He was elected to a full four-year term the next year.
Beers declared in January 2014 that he was running for the Republican nomination to challenge Senator
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Harry Reid
Harry Mason Reid Jr. (; December 2, 1939 – December 28, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Nevada from 1987 to 2017. He led the Senate Democratic Caucus from 2005 to 2017 and was the Sena ...
in the 2016 election but he withdrew in June 2015.
Beers lost reelection to the Las Vegas City Council in 2017, finishing first in the May 1 primary contest but losing the June 27 runoff to Steve Seroka, with Seroka winning 3,979 to Beers' 3,387 votes.
Beers ran for Nevada State Treasurer
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in the 2018 elections
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, but lost to Democrat Zach Conine
Zachary Beare Conine (born October 20, 1981) is an American attorney, businessman and politician from the U.S. state of Nevada. He is currently the Nevada State Treasurer.
Biography
Conine was raised in New York. He graduated from Cornell Unive ...
.
References
External links
Nevada State Legislature - Senator Bob Beers
official government website
Project Vote Smart - Senator Bob Beers (NV)
profile
Beers for Nevada
official campaign website
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1959 births
American accountants
Candidates in the 2018 United States elections
Las Vegas City Council members
Living people
Republican Party members of the Nevada Assembly
Republican Party Nevada state senators
People from Livermore, California
University of Nevada, Las Vegas alumni