Tax votes loom large over Nevada Legislature primaries

LAS VEGAS — Republican lawmakers who took the risky move of supporting GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval’s $1.4 billion tax plan face their biggest test yet on Tuesday. Primary voters will weigh in on whether to keep them after they broke with Republican orthodoxy, or to support the anti-tax purists who are challenging them. The heated primary election is the first hurdle for Republicans hoping to maintain the 36-27 legislative majority they won in the conservative “red wave” of 20