Tony wrote on May 16, 2008 11:42 PM: I couldn't agree more with the people lose the last time in history something like this happen was in Italy under Mussolini and the National Fascist Party. Where the corporations and wealthy control the government and brain wash the working people into thinking they were being taking advantage of .How can you want to live in a society where we don't educate our young,toss away the old and sick. Our city needs teachers most who are grossly under paid the city needs policeman,and roads and yes taxes need to be raise. The casinos paid six and half percent in taxes most states tax their casino at twenty percent. If we keep listen to the Republicans and the Ron Paul cult followers we won't have a civilize society it will be dog eats dog and blow up any country who disagrees with the United Fascist States of America. As for Mayor Goodman I really don't like his mob connected pass but what he said is right we need to do the right for our city and it's people. Raise taxes and behave like the civilize society that we are that's what most people really want a government that is there for them.

Al katraz wrote on May 16, 2008 04:57 PM: Helen:
Put down your Jim Gibbons pom-poms and take a look at the sorry job this jack-ass has done. He's a buffoon and you know it...unless you on the same program of mind-altering prescriptions as the about-to-be-ex-first lady.

Dennis wrote on May 16, 2008 11:34 AM: I applaud Gov. Gibbons for cutting the budget rather than raising taxes during a recession. There is a lot of fat at all levels of government as anyone who ever worked for the govt. knows. While I like Mayor Goodman personally, he is obviously a typical big tax and spend liberal as evidenced by the push for a new city hall when the current one is clearly adequate.

spareme wrote on May 16, 2008 10:05 AM: Helen how about composing an ethics commitee on the Goobner He has the morals of a flea and the brain of an ant! you say great job Jim I say he should start packing and make an appointment with a psychiatrist as I see Alzheimers in his future!

People lose wrote on May 16, 2008 08:45 AM: What does Gibbons care, he is a Northern right wing, in the pocket of big corporation hypocrite. No new taxes for corporations and rich people, and then screw the middle class. His cuts hurt the working men and women of the valley, perhaps not the northern ranchers or the sun city old rasin carpet baggers … I’d argue it hurts them much more than they understand … they’ll never see that though. But this is par for the course, for a right wing corporate shill … the only thing the Republican party can or will produce. It is unfortunate that the right has long since been so co-opted by corporations that they give little care to the average citizen. The masses blindly vote for these people, who simply turn on them and feed those who elected them into the furnace of corporate greed. We reap what we sow, the corporation has risen to a position of unassailable dominance of our “modern” societies and the people have lost all power. It is a sad day in which we live … sad indeed. Mayor Goodman is as any politician, egotistical, yet he is perhaps a bit less linked to the corporate machine, he is himself successful and wealthy, I am not a fawning fan of his, but honestly, he’d be exponentially better than Gibbons. He has the charisma and the popularity to pull it off, hopefully he throws his hat in and knocks off the anointed ones … more corporate shills we do not need

Spare-me wrote on May 16, 2008 08:29 AM: Helen spare me Gibbons should take responsibilty for his criminal activities If he continues to cutbudgets that only benefit his political buddies Maybe they should compose an ethics commitee since the Goobner has no morals values also add a psychiatist as I see alzheimers in his future !Gibbons like you are my morning joke!What don,t you bitch about? Nice to be involved but please speak from knowledge !One less @ the Dem convention!

Mama Bear wrote on May 16, 2008 07:43 AM: He is superior to all of the incompetence that we have witnessed up to this point by Gibbons, or any others elected via the "Rogue Itch Political Machine."

Helen Weils wrote on May 16, 2008 07:37 AM: Oscar has turned into a sleazy major
who wants to give government employees including teachers and HUGELY overpaid
cops and fireman $500,000 homes. What
a shill for the government union employees. I voted for him for major
but I would NEVER vote for him again
and CERTAINLY NOT for Governor.
GO JIM GIBBONS, YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB UNDER THE WORST CONDITIONS.

WH wrote on May 16, 2008 07:36 AM: There we go. Let's have a mob lawyer who made ALL his money defending the likes of Tony Spilatro. The arrogance of Goodman is onle exceeded by his ego. Look at what he has done for LV. Nothing really...Businesses were started downtown and now are closed. Crime still runs rampant on his streets. You can't get a direct answer from him except "martini". He hides the fact from others that he isn't the Mayor of Clark County only a small portion with city limits. His comment: "Let them believe what they want to believe" hiding behind a facad of legal mumbo jumbo. He is for himself and his own name. If you can get a list of his accomplishments for the City and I am sure it isn't impressive enough to win him the "Mayor of the Day" award. I would suspect that if there was an election for Mayor of Clark County he would loose to the likes of Bruce Woodbury, D.A. David Rogers, and the like. Oscar Goodman is a face in the crowd. I seriously doubt if his name wasn't linked (And I would bet in some ways still is) to the "mob" he would have never been elected. People "within the city limits of Las Vegas" have just accepted him and he has done what they like, make a spectacle of himself. Run for Gov. in some other state don't make Nevada the state with a governor with showgirls, bartenders, and crooked nosed crew.

ths wrote on May 16, 2008 07:35 AM: I say go Goodman.

Ironic the city has little control over much of its tax revenue base as that is set at state level. Goodman is doing what he can to survive while having little control.

For the new City Hall look at long term growth and expense. Spending now will save in the long run as utilities on current buildings and renting of other buildings will cost more in the long run then building a big enough and energy efficient building. It is like ripping grass out for Xeriscaping. You spend money to save money over the next 10 years.

Long term thought is what we need, not the shallow next day thoughts of most citizens. A great leader looks long term.

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