Nevada Lt.Gov.
Stavros Anthony has an unusual plan to rev up the Silver State's entertainment business: space tourism; and with Elon Musk having significant business interests in the state, he won't have to look far to find the man to do it.Anthony's background has been anything but boring: he had a nearly three-decade career in law enforcement, was a regent in the state's higher education system, and served as a longtime Las Vegas city councilman. He ran a spirited campaign for mayor of Las Vegas, and since 2022 has served alongside Governor Joe Lombardo, leading the Silver State.The Lombardo/Anthony ticket was the only one in America in which Republicans defeated an incumbent Democratic governor and lieutenant governor.Recently, Anthony sat down with Fox News Digital at FreedomFest in Las Vegas to discuss his career, the Nevada economy, and electoral prospects in 2026, in what is shaping up to be one of the tightest gubernatorial races in the country.JOE LOMBARDO CRUISES PAST SIX GOP CHALLENGERS TO SECURE NEVADA REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL NOMINATIONNevada Lieutenant Gov.
Stavros Anthony delivers remarks during the U.S.Capitol Christmas Tree lighting ceremony on the West Front Lawn at the U.S.
Capitol on Dec.2, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)Anthony promotes the state as a mecca for the entertainment business, touting a light regulatory touch and a thriving climate for entrepreneurship.He's particularly bullish on professional sports, and the nascent space tourism industry."If you look at 10 years ago, we didn't have one major sporting activity here in Nevada.
They actually would not come here because they thought there would be illegal gambling and corruption and bribery and so on and so forth.In 10 years, we've become the sports capital of the world.
Baseball is coming.We have hockey.
We have football.We're going to have basketball coming.
F1.NASCAR, we have women's basketball on and on and that just kind of cropped up."The thing ab...