Joseph P. Silvestri

Joseph P. Silvestri is a candidate for the Nevada State Assembly, bringing a background rooted in New York where he earned a B.A. and M.A. before moving to Las Vegas in 1997. He works as a geography teacher for the Clark County school district and a realtor. His platform emphasizes public safety through cracking down on fentanyl dealers, opposing defund-the-police efforts, and supporting Second Amendment rights. Economically, he advocates for deregulation. In education, he proposes tying teacher pay to performance, expanding charter schools, ending Common Core, and banning critical race theory and gender ideology. He seeks to reform zoning for housing affordability, enforce single-sex spaces, and block all new taxes in Nevada.