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Gloves Off After Vegas Mayor's Wife Wins Round 1 of Election
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS -- This city famed for its boxing matches may want to start selling tickets now, because Tuesday night the crowded mayoral race became a two-woman match that's already showing signs it'll be a bruising battle. The front-runner is first-time candidate Carolyn Goodman, 72-year-old wife of the term-limited but popular mayor, Oscar Goodman. She snagged 37 percent of the vote, more than double the total of her general election opponent, Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani. Julie Jacobson, AP Carolyn Goodman, shown speaking to supporters during an election night ...
Who Will Replace a Boozing, Gambling Mayor? In Vegas, Maybe His Wife
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS -- The outgoing mayor portrays himself as a boozing, compulsive gambler who has spent a dozen years making bizarre remarks that have, at one point or another, offended just about everybody. He's a self-proclaimed publicity hound who appears ad nauseum in the national media, speaking about all things Vegas even though the city limits don't include the Strip -- a fact he almost never clarifies. Anywhere else, voters would probably be eager to see Oscar Goodman go, especially with the region steeped in the nation's worst unemployment and foreclosure rates. Yet around here, all of the ...
Mob Wars Return to Vegas in Competing Attractions
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS -- It took decades to wrest control of this city's casinos from the mob, a bloody and drawn-out battle between law enforcement and its prey that left countless gangsters in jail, in witness protection or buried in unmarked desert graves. So imagine how surprised Bugsy, Lefty and their brethren would be to discover that a new Vegas mob war is brewing. Except this time, it's between the venerable Tropicana Hotel-Casino and the city of Las Vegas to see which can draw the most tourists to different multimillion-dollar attractions due to open by year's end. Steve Marcus, Las ...
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. ...
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