In The Twilight Zone wrote on September 05, 2009 09:02 AM: Some of these comments are right on the money! Although I DO NOT believe LVCVA should be abolished, the top brass need a spanking. In the midst of a Recession, they seek to hire this "necessary" high paying position, while seeking to cut front line workers pay, or lay off 50% of the blue collar workers who work for the organization. This is an organization that has added more high paying white collar jobs to the roster(while front line workers #'s remain unchanged) since a steady economic boom starting 2002. Keeping in mind their mission statement:
"To attract visitors by promoting Las Vegas as the world's most desirable destination for leisure and business travel."
I ask this;
What is LVCVA doing to KEEP visitors happy once they have attracted them? If they are attending an event held at LVCC, These suit and tie guys will have little or nothing to do with customers, visitors, attendees, delegates, etc... being satisfied with their level of service. WHO NEEDS "WORKERS" LVCVA; hire ALL VP's and managers...the new theme of three piece suited plumbers, security, and custodians will be GROUNDBREAKING!

Turk wrote on August 19, 2009 09:34 AM: @lisaleo27, you state:

>> LVCVA does not need to be abolished, it needs to step up with an aggressive fight to save jobs.

Are you new in town?

Or, living in dreamland?

The LVCVA couldn't care less about saving folk's jobs!! (LOL)

The LVCVA is heartless.

There is no concern for LV residents, other than their priviledged few employees who make way more than what they're worth.

The LVCVA only cares about ... the LVCVA.

Trojan wrote on August 16, 2009 05:13 PM: It looks like we have an entirely new form of terrorist. One who will enter our city with the sole and exclusive intent of disrupting tourism. Are the Madrassa's of Iran pumping out tourist industry haters as a unique form of attack? That is what you would have to believe with the appointment of this new position when you factor in that a half dozen competent agencies already gleen over all available data. Is this some kind of a payback to the LVCVA for all of the land it has donated to metro? Is this an attemot to introduce a position that will have access to classified information so that it can be fed back to the cronies behind LVCVA? You better believe it. This appointment itself deserves scrutiny by the FBI (and those pushing for it) to determine why another player needs to be inserted into an already covered game.

lisaleo27 wrote on August 15, 2009 10:40 AM: What the LVCVA needs is a more aggressive campaign to combat the political terrorism of the AIG Affect that is killing the convention industry and crushing jobs. The entire meeting and hospitality (including casinos) industries are under attack by the media, that meetings and conventions are frivolous waste of funding, instead of a necessary tool of keeping business flowing.
IF your car has a flat tire, don't drain the engine of the oil and expect it to run.
This destination lost $140 Million plus this year in confirmed business... That means a loss of tax revenue, loss of dinners in restaurants, loss of taxi rides, loss of events hiring temp and hourly workers, loss of union hours (where are THEY??? hiding making issues that don't really matter to their member, afraid of political interaction)and loss of man hours at every casino. We have the Huge City Center opening, and the 'if we build it they will come' does not hold true. It is further flooding a over saturate marketplace.
Reid and Titus are depending on 'Tourism' well news flash... CA and AZ are hurting just as bad, and they are not driving in droves to dump cash in our economy. WE NEED MEETINGS OF ALL SIZES TO KEEP THE ECONOMY GOING here and in the US.
IF the casino/hotel/CVA workers are loosing their jobs it is affecting their mortgages, eating out, buying clothes, cars and using the services of other small businesses.
Please address this some where, PR is needed and fast, or we will be in a worse situation next year as the commercial markets fall, which we haven't seen the bottom of yet, and housing will continue to drop.
So frustrating.
LVCVA does not need to be abolished, it needs to step up with an aggressive fight to save jobs.

sari wrote on August 14, 2009 08:08 PM: @ ET "another reason the LVCVA need be abolished"

I'd vote for that!!

It's not just the Firemen salaries. Take a good look at the LVCVA salaries!! LVCVA spends like a drunken sailor and refuses to justify their expenditures of TAX dollars. Go figure.

ricky wrote on August 14, 2009 07:39 PM: To: YeahRight

Yeah, I believe you're right!! Seems someone is looking to put a friend (or family member) to work; that's the way the LVCVA always operates. It's never about who's qualified, but it's always about who's related to whom.

That's the exact way Ray Suppe got his job at the LVCVA in the first place: NEPOTISM, big time!! He was roughly HALF the age of all other officers due to the "past law enforcement experience" requirement for security officers.

When Ray Suppe was hired, he was the only person ever hired as a security officer that did not have prior law enforcement experience.

He got the job because of his family connections, already employed with the LVCVA, such as Gayle Suppe (his mom perhaps??)

Ray Suppe, as the security director for the authority, makes about as much sense as this new 3-year, almost half a million dollar position, that is NOT a necessary position for a convention / visitors agency anywhere!!

Someone asked, ... Why do we need such a ridiculous and probably another overpaid position?

Answer: We DON'T. It's going to be a good paying job for someone's family member.

Someone asked, ... Why isn't Suppe reading the news and doing the analyzing?

Better yet, tell us ... Why is Suppe even the security director of the LVCVA?!?

YeahRight wrote on August 14, 2009 01:54 PM: What's next? Will 7-11 hire a burrito captain to patrol the aisles looking for terrorists? This is nonsense! "The analyst will read narrative documents and scrub suspicious-activities reports to look for information on possible crimes and to seek out connections that could indicate terrorists are planning coordinated attacks." Good thing the LVCA will be there to catch all those items that metro will miss! Looks to me like somebody is looking to put a friend to work in a position that is needed about as much as a screen door on a submarine. What a joke, and who do these people think are buying this?

Why doesn't the so-called HLS do this work? wrote on August 14, 2009 11:54 AM: Metro's Homeland Security Division isn't doing it's JOB! Why did we hire these foons if they won't do their jobs?

Moron wrote on August 14, 2009 11:52 AM: Ray Suppe, security director for the authority, said he believes it's the first position of its kind at any convention and visitors' agency in the nation.

Why do we need such a ridiculous and probably another overpaid position? Why isn't Suppe reading the news and doing the analyzing? I'd fire this clown in a heartbeat for NOT doing his job.

ET wrote on August 14, 2009 11:22 AM: Better living brought to you by Oscar,another reason the LVCVA need be abolished.Its $ 480,000 that should go to the poor,budget, anything useful,its like they're calling out the punks,this is an outrage,outrageous,impeached the clown before he does anymore foolish endeavors,Outrageous.

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