Lopez vs. Weiss sounds like a televised title fight broadcast from Las Vegas.

But neither Stephanie Lopez nor Jeff Weiss is bringing a 25-pound gold-plated championship belt home to Pahrump.

Instead, there is the continuation of a difference of opinion that started at the June 23 town board meeting when Lopez, 27, stood at the podium and spoke in public for the first time in her life.

She spoke in favor of Town Manager Bill Kohbarger and presented signatures of 300 residents who support him.

However, Kohbarger has become secondary to what has happened since then.

Lopez has reluctantly become the voice for people who don't speak up at meetings or don't attend meetings for various reasons.

Sunday, Lopez was with her brother-in-law and a friend in the parking lot near Nevada State Bank, where she said she had permission to collect signatures. Weiss, who is unabashedly vocal in his opposition to Kohbarger during town board meetings, videotaped Lopez who responded by calling 911. A sheriff's deputy responded to the bank's parking lot to talk to all parties.

Dep. Kevin McBrayer said Weiss had a legal right to videotape on private property.

But Weiss could not explain why he was videotaping Lopez. Asked about his action, he would only say. "Why not?"

From that point, the versions of what took place on Sunday vary.

"This guy who was wearing a cowboy hat and driving a van was harassing me and trying to intimidate me," said Lopez. She did not know Weiss' name. She said he followed her for the whole time she was out that day, from about 7:30 to 11:30 a.m.

"He was videotaping me and acting out and cursing," she said. "He told me, 'We are going to run you out.'" Lopez said people wouldn't sign the petition because they didn't want to be videotaped.

"The guy in the cowboy hat goes into Walmart for a few minutes and when he comes back, he starts taping a guy who signed the petition. The guy got mad. My brother-in-law told the man in the cowboy hat that if he came any closer we would call the police.

That's not exactly how Weiss relates what happened when he approached this reporter on Monday and volunteered the information that he was the man in the cowboy hat. He came to the PVT office with a short film clip showing Lopez calling 911 and a deputy arriving. The 90-second segment was taken from inside a vehicle while Weiss was parked a reasonable distance away from Lopez.

"I was filming her. I wasn't stopping her from getting signatures. I never made a threat toward her. I was all the way across the parking lot from her."

Weiss also said Lopez approached him to sign the petition as he went into Walmart to buy pet food. "I refused and she went away. Then when I came out, the guy approached me. I told him to get the hell out of my face. It's no different than panhandling to be approached like that.

"She wasn't telling people to sign the petition to retain the town manager. She was asking people to sign it for a better Pahrump. The people who are signing her petition are the ones sitting home watching TV. They don't even know who Kohbarger is."

Weiss said Lopez was the one provoking trouble.

"She taunted me all day. When I saw her after the fireworks display at the Nugget, she drove by me in the parking lot of McDonalds and said, 'I'm going to Walmart now.' I told her to go right ahead."

Lopez, on the other hand, said Weiss followed her into the parking lot at Walgreen's earlier in the day and told her, "So you want to be famous, here you are" and started videotaping her.

"I called my husband because he was home with the kids," Lopez said. "I didn't know what to do. I was scared, even though I knew my brother-in-law wouldn't let anything happen. I just didn't know people behaved like this. For people to act this crazy just shocks me.

"I'm not a chicken but my heart was racing. My husband said he would come over if I wanted him to, but he told me to stay and finish what I set out to do.

"This is why people don't speak out," said Lopez. "Because of people like him; intimidation is his job."

Weiss insisted he didn't intimidate anyone. "I have the right to film. I was doing it from a good 100 feet away."