The recommendation, made May 8, does not block Schaefer from running or being elected to office. I've been in practice for 25 years, and I have been a businessman as well as a lawyer. North Las Vegas is growing, and the city's judges need as much horse sense and as many gray hairs as possible. In 1998, Schaefer was under house arrest for a good portion of the time he was a candidate for Las Vegas justice of the peace, a race he lost to Jennifer Togliatti. Schaefer has a spousal abuse conviction in California in connection with an incident on Christmas Day 1992.
Justices also oversee misdemeanor and small-claims cases to their completion.
In a township with a population of 100,000 or more, a candidate must be an attorney who is licensed and admitted to practice law in Nevada. The townships of Boulder, Bunkerville, Goodsprings, Laughlin, Mesquite, Moapa, Moapa Valley and Searchlight have populations of less than 100,000, so candidates in these areas do not have to be licensed attorneys. Annual base salaries differ in each township. Nevada's largest daily newspaper.