Nevada Millennium Scholarship

In the event moderated by my colleague James Wolfgang Perez earlier this week, Johnson leaned on his experience as a public policy analyst and government watchdog.

He sparred over the future of the Millennium Scholarship with Democratic candidate Tia Mathis Coleman, who currently works as the state deputy treasurer overseeing the college savings division.

The scholarship, which is based on GPA and test scores, has helped more than 177,000 Nevada college students over the last three decades.

But the future is unclear.

Due to a lack of funding from dwindling tobacco sales, it's estimated the Millennium Scholarship will not have enough money to cover all eligible students by 2027, according to the Nevada Independent.

Let's hear what the candidates proposed.

Yeah, my goal isn't necessarily more eligible students.

Thank you.

And so offering our best and brightest the opportunity to have those sorts of jobs here in a few years is really crucial.

And one of the reasons why I'm running for treasurer is because My opponent has driven the Millennium Scholarship into the ground.

She is over it.

Her day job is the bureaucrat who runs the Millennium Scholarship.

That's a $10,000 scholarship to keep kids in state to go to UNLV, UNR, our two-year schools, and it will be bankrupt after next year.

And so saving that, you know, correcting the flaws, the problems that she's created and making sure that our kids can still stay here.

These projects get built, they paid tax money and you get the money back and you can then fund the next pro program or project that you want to fund with it.

There's no money left in the infrastructure bank, and that's on Zach Conine.

And so offering our best and brightest the opportunity to have those sorts of jobs here in a few years is really crucial.

And one of the reasons why I'm running for treasurer is because my opponent has driven the Millennium Scholarship into the ground.

She is over it.

Her day job is the bureaucrat who runs the Millennium Scholarship.

That's a $10,000 scholarship to keep kids in state to go to UNLV, UNR, our two-year schools, and it will be bankrupt after next year.

And so saving that, correcting the flaws, the problems that she's created, and making sure that our kids can still stay here.

You get the money back, and you can then fund the next program or project that you want to fund with it.

There's no money left in the infrastructure bank, and that's on ZATCO9.