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Irked Las Vegas Mayor Calls Obama 'a Real Slow Learner'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyOscar Goodman, the mayor of Las Vegas, has a message for President Obama: Stop using us as a punch line -- and don't let the door hit you on your way out. The president took an inadvertent swipe at Sin City on Tuesday at his town-hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., where he described a new imperative for fiscal responsibility. Just as Washington cannot keep up its deficit spending, he said, "responsible families" can't keep spending frivolously either. "You don't blow a bunch of cash in Vegas when you're trying to save for college," Obama said. His prepared remarks noted that he should wait for ...
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman Would Do Better Than Harry Reid in Nevada Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe polls aren't getting any better for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, with a new survey by Daily Kos/Research 2000 showing him behind the two top Republican contenders, former state GOP chair Sue Lowden and businessman and former college basketball start Danny Tarkanian. The Research 2000 match-ups, conducted Jan. 18-20, generally found that Democratic alternatives to Reid fared better against the GOP pair in a general election race, particularly Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, Lowden leads Reid by 51 percent to 42 percent with 7 percent undecided, with independents (17 percent of the ...
Reid Running a Losing Race, but Other Democrats Wouldn't Do Better
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyYet another poll shows Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid trailing his likely Republican opponents.But, if Reid were to do a Christopher Dodd and pull out in the race because of his sinking numbers, several Democratic opponents would not do much better. ...
Mixed Reviews for Reid from His State's Black Voters
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyBlack voters in Nevada say by a 48 percent to 39 percent margin that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid should not step down from his post despite the racial remarks he made about Barack Obama in a private conversation during the 2008 campaign.But, in a match-up against his two top GOP contenders, he gets only 52 percent of the black vote, according to a Public Policy Polling survey previewed today. ...
Has Tiger Put the 'Sin' back in Sin City?
By Sally Denton - Politics DailyMayor Oscar Goodman is delighted that Tiger Woods' alleged mistresses include at least three with ties to Las Vegas. ...
A Republican or an Independent Are Best Bets in Nevada Governor Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyNevada's first-term Republican governor, Jim Gibbons, hobbled by political battles, accusations of infidelity by his wife and a messy divorce, is seen unfavorably by half the state's voters and would lose to former state Attorney General Brian Sandoval if a GOP primary were held today, according to a poll for the Las Vegas Journal-Review by Mason-Dixon conducted Nov. 30-Dec. 2. ...
Independent Would Shake Up Nevada's Governor Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyIf a three-way race for Nevada governor develops, former state Attorney General Brian Sandoval, the Republican, is in the lead with 35 percent followed by Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, who said he may run as an independent, at 28 percent, and Democratic Clark County Commissioner Rory Reid, son of Majority Leader Harry Reid, in third at 21 percent, according to a Nevada News Bureau poll published yesterday. Sixteen percent preferred someone else. The margin of error is 5 points. ...
Could Las Vegas Be the Next NBA City?
By Tim Povtak - AOL NewsYou have to give Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman an "A" for persistence. Neither the bad economy, nor the bad publicity from the All-Star Game in 2007 -- or even the stepped-up anti-gambling push after the snake-like Tim Donaghy raised his head -- has deterred Goodman from continuing his push for an NBA franchise. He does make a lot of sense. Las Vegas really would be NBA heaven. Goodman at his weekly press conference Thursday brought up the issue again of moving forward with plans for a new downtown arena in hopes of luring an NBA franchise to his city. Considering Las Vegas has successfully ...
Does Las Vegas Even Still Want the NBA?
By Matt Watson - AOL NewsFor a while, it looked like the NBA was warming up to the idea of putting a franchise in Las Vegas -- they held the 2007 All-Star game in the city, and the biggest off-season summer league is run in the city. Unfortunately, it looks like the Tim Donaghy scandal might torpedo any chance that the league and the city might get together -- and not just for the reasons that you might think.Yes, it's true that David Stern probably wants to distance himself from the only city in the country where sports wagering is legal, but have you considered that the city might not want a potentially crooked ...
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