GOP caucus site moved from mansion to senior center

With just two days until the Nevada caucuses, Republican Party officials have announced that one of their two Carson City caucus sites is being moved.

Republicans who have been told they meet at the Nevada Room on the Governor’s Mansion grounds Saturday will instead meet at the Carson Senior Center at 911 Beverly Drive.

The time remains the same with check-in at 8:30 a.m. and the caucus beginning at 9 a.m. The other GOP location at Capital Christian Church at 1600 Snyder Ave. is unchanged.

The last-minute change means roughly half the registered Republicans in Carson City were given incorrect information about where to show up to caucus in mailers sent to them by the party.

Zach Moyle, executive director of the state GOP said the county chairman had told him all the proper arrangements were made to use the Nevada Room, but that he was advised today by the governor’s office the necessary paperwork had not been filled out and that the room was not available to the party.

He said in one way, it works out better because the space at the Senior Center is much larger than the Nevada Room, which can only hold 250 people. He said the e-mail and phone response to the mailings sent to GOP voters indicate many more than that intend to show up Saturday morning.