Aaron Ford Launches Statewide Working Class First Tour
KTNV: “Ford on Monday launched a 'working class first' tour of Nevada, with a focus on affordability for residents”
On Monday, Attorney General Aaron Ford launched his Working Class First statewide listening tour alongside Assemblymembers Duy Nguyen and Max Carter, State Senators Rochelle Nguyen and Dina Neal, and small business owners. Ford launched his tour in Southwest Las Vegas, held town halls in Henderson and Pahrump, and made a small business stop in Tonopah.
Under Joe Lombardo, housing costs in Nevada are at record highs and Nevadans are having to donate blood just to pay rent. Lombardo vetoed a bill that would have lowered prescription drug prices while prescription drug prices have risen faster in Nevada than anywhere else in the nation. As a quarter of Nevada’s children experience food insecurity, Lombardo vetoed a bill that would have guaranteed school meals and put money back in parents’ pockets.
Ford’s tour will stretch across all 17 counties and focus on discussing ways to lower costs for working families and make Nevada more affordable. This tour will allow Ford the opportunity to connect with local leaders, community members, and working families in every corner of the state to discuss the issues that matter most to them.
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Las Vegas Sun: Ford launches gubernatorial campaign tour, calls Lombardo 'biggest roadblock to affordability'
[11/10/25]
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Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford sees last week’s election results as validation for his young gubernatorial campaign’s messaging.
Ford struck similar themes during his stop at Xia Long Dumplings in southwest Las Vegas on Monday, the first in a statewide tour. Speaking to a few dozen people, the attorney general called Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo “our biggest roadblock to affordability.”
The “Working Class First Tour,” which is doubling as a canned food drive across each location, also stopped in Henderson, Tonopah and Pahrump.
“Homelessness and housing costs are at record highs,” Ford said. “There are Nevadans out there who are having to literally donate blood in order to pay their rent. There’s no sign of relief in sight.”
Nevada’s unemployment rate, 5.3% as of August, is among the highest in the nation. It also hasn’t improved under Lombardo, Ford said. He recalled a woman in Reno telling him that she had been laid off and was desperately searching for a job to take care of her family.
Ford said Lombardo blames the unemployment rate on “lazy people.” He pointed to leaked audio of the governor saying that people would “rather manipulate the government process and receive unemployment” than take jobs that are “not quality.”
“Those are his words. My experience is entirely different,” the attorney general said. “Meeting with the young lady in Reno tells me that Gov. Lombardo is overly out of touch with what’s going on the ground.”
Ford highlighted the governor’s record number of vetoes, saying he wants a handful of bills that have already passed through the Legislature on his desk to sign within 30 days of taking office.
That includes legislation guaranteeing Medicare-negotiated drug prices and universal free school meals, which Lombardo contends are already available to most students. Ford also discussed legislation limiting the corporate ownership of homes, which the governor urged Republicans in Carson City to kill.
Assemblymember Duy Nguyen, D-Las Vegas, credited President Donald Trump’s tariffs for the “first mid-session revenue decline since the Great Recession,” telling supporters in the shop that Lombardo has “embraced” the policy.
“Lombardo even called Trump ‘the greatest president.’ That’s not leadership, that’s surrender,” Nguyen said. “Nevada is now facing a full-blown affordability crisis, and the governor is cheering the pain.”
Ford has “taken on big drug companies, he’s taken on corporate landlords and he’s put people over profits every single time,” Rochelle Nguyen said. “Nevada families deserve a governor who’s been through this struggle, who listens, who’s given us results and fights for the rest of us.”
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