We know it’s late, but we promise a few up-to-the-minute afternoon Quick Hits aren’t going to spoil your dinner! Here we go!

• Today, Assembly Majority Leader-to-be John Oceguera hosts a fundrasier that boasts a host committee comprised of pretty much every lobbyist who has served time in Carson City. The $1,000-per-person event is at Lure, the nightclub at Wynn Las Vegas. And yes, Steve Wynn and his wife, Elaine are on the committee, too.

• Tomorrow, the fun really gets rolling, as the state Supreme Court will rule as to whether the Tax and Spending Control initiative, as well as the People’s Initiative to Stop the Taking of Our Land, wind up on the November ballot. “We know that election officials, the parties and the public are anxiously awaiting the results of these important cases,” Chief Justice Bob Rose said in a statement. “The court is therefore announcing its intention to file the opinions tomorrow.”

• Whoops. It turns out that U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons’ campaign team may have misspelled the word “surprise” at the end of a truncated “Dina Taxes” ad. (We spotted the ad last night, but were drifting off to dreaming about the yacht we someday hope to own. Gosh, we sure hope Dina doesn’t tax our yacht!)

Anyway, this is bad, in that it allows state Sen. Dina Titus (note the correct spelling, Gibbons team!) to divert attention from the ad, which says she’ll raise lots of taxes. It also calms the media roar long enough for her to remind people that Gibbons — during his long-ago tenure in the Legislature — voted for some of the same taxes that he later slammed Titus for supporting.

Spell check. It’s not just for bloggers, people.

• Speaking of Gibbons, what was with that Review-Journal headline, “Foes accuse Republican of not aiding mine worker”? If you read the story, which the headline’s author obviously didn’t, you get the distinct impression that Gibbons actually may have helped the mine worker right out of his job!

It seems the congressman wrote a letter to the head of the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada back in 2004, asking that oversight of a polluted copper mine site be moved to Reno. It seems a BLM employee, Earle Dixon, had been raising the alarm about toxic substances at the site, including uranium.

Well, shortly after the letter, Dixon got fired! And the oversight of the mine was moved! Yeah, R-J Gibbons sure didn’t aid that mine worker. Was that what you meant?

In any case, Gibbons defended himself, saying he simply didn’t want the site to go on the EPA’s Superfund list because it could hurt nearby Yerington’s economy and ….

Whoa, wait a second. Did we just say “because it could hurt nearby Yerington’s economy”? That’s why Gibbons wanted oversight moved? Holy shit, we think we just found the real story!

And the R-J headline probably would have read: “Gibbons saves small town’s economy!” (Much better than, “Small town residents dying of mysterious illness; federal government nowhere to be found” after all.)

• So, here’s what we don’t get: For months, Mayor Oscar Goodman has been saying he’s unbiased about the Crazy Horse Too, and its owner, Rick Rizzolo. Goodman even offered his opinion that the racketeering, tax fraud and violence against patrons that played out at the Crazy Horse Too was not as bad as old Mike Galardi bribing members of the Clark County Commission. He even urged leniency when the Crazy Horse Too was — finally — brought before the council for a liquor license review.

But then, he shuts up. Says he’s been advised that he has a conflict, since his one-time law partner, David Chesnoff represents one of the thugs, er, employees of the Crazy Horse Too. And Goodman only recently became aware of that.

Please.

This is an either-or thing: Either Goodman could, as he said for months, be impartial in dealing with the Crazy Horse matter, or he couldn’t. Which means either participate all the way, or shut up at the beginning and don’t say anything. You can’t have a conflict, but still participate in trying to influence the outcome of the matter. That’s unethical, as former Councilman Michael McDonald’s case showed. (He abstained from public votes on the Las Vegas Sportspark, because he worked part-time for an investor in the project, but lobbied in favor of his boss behind the scenes. That’s a no-no.)

By the way, the council ignored Goodman’s feelings and revoked the Crazy Horse Too’s liquor license, along with assessing a big fine. Officials served the order on the club late this afternoon. (After, of course, the federal government did the heavy lifting of investigating, raiding and forcing plea deals from the Crazy Horse Too crew.) It’s the law-enforcement equivalent of fixing the barn door long after all horses have died of extinction in a watery, post-apocalyptic world in which global warming has flooded almost all dry land.