Alexis Hill on campaign for Governor, Ford debate and more

We are less than two months away from the Nevada Primary Election on June 9.

The biggest race on the ballot is the Nevada Governor’s race.

We spoke with Washoe County Commissioner Alexis Hill, a Democratic candidate, after speaking with both Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo and Attorney General Aaron Ford, another Democratic candidate.

"So, this is about actually putting solutions on the ground, which is why I'm running because I'm sick and tired of the rebrand or the big talk of I'm going to reduce your costs, but I'm not going to tell you how," Hill said.

Hill, who used to be the Washoe County Commission Chair before running for Governor, has big ambitions for the state if she is elected.

One of the first will be dealing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

"I have an executive order to get rid of the 287(g) agreement on day one and support our immigrant families,” Hill said. “I also want to support our businesses. I want to establish that businesses do not have to pay personnel tax or property tax to keep them stabilized."

The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office is not in ICE’s 287 (g) program, as we reported last year, but other agencies in the state do.

The program allows state and local officers the authority to perform immigration officer functions.

A major point of Hill’s campaign is child care.

"I want to also get child care online for our working families,” she said. “It's a crisis in Nevada. We don't have enough child care centers and I've been working on it as a county commissioner. But, we need a statewide approach where we can ensure that working families can get back to work, that they have high-quality child care, and that it doesn't cost a fortune."

Hill also wants to address health care and thinks her solutions are more robust than Governor Lombardo’s latest health legislation that created the Nevada Health Authority.

"The Nevada Health Authority, we need to fund it. So, okay, rename it, reorganize it. Ask Nevadans, how do you think your health care is today?" Hill said.

Hill’s plan is to also create 15,000 jobs in her first term if elected.

"When I talk to voters, they don't care about statewide experience because they are fed up,” she said. “They're fed up with both parties. They want change. They want a politician who's actually bringing solutions to their everyday problems, which I am doing."

Hill has never served a state-level position, so we asked her why she was making the jump.

"Why is it a big jump?” she asked us. “Steve Sisolak was a county commissioner. Governor Lombardo ran Metro as a Sheriff. These are county positions. These are people who know what is happening on the ground level."

Recently, she challenged Ford to a public debate. When we asked Ford, he said he would rather talk to Nevadans.

"I called him right before filing, to just chat about the election, asked him directly about debating me,” Hill said. “He wouldn't answer the question. We've reached out to his team. They wouldn't. They have not even responded to say we received your information."

People all across the country continue to feel the pain at the pump.

Nevada was already higher than many states in the country. We asked Hill what she plans to do to address this issue.

"I think that we could do a lot of things,” Hill said. “The Governor has not done a good job of getting EV charging throughout our state. We've lost, actually, federal funds that should have gone to that."

19 other candidates are running against Hill.

For the Republicans, incumbent Governor Joe Lombardo, Barak Zilberberg, Donald J. Beaudry Jr., Matthew Rian Winterhawk, Jose M. Zelaya, Irina Hansen, and Michael Kameron Hawkins.

Democratic candidates include Attorney General Aaron Ford, Miqehl Bayfield, James Cooper, and Emile Bouari.

There are quite a few people running not affiliated with a political party, which includes: Max Beck, Christopher Battenberg, Emilio Ray Rodriguez, John T. Scott, Allen Anderson Rheinhart, Jordan Koteras, and Danielle Ford.

To watch our exclusive interviews with Ford and Lombardo, the videos are linked below.