Obama Damages Nevada Economy, Refuses to Meet its Governor

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

What a puss-tard:

President Obama refuses to meet with Governor Gibbons about tourism comments

Carson City - The Office of Governor Jim Gibbons was notified today that President Barack Obama has refused to meet with the Governor and key business leaders from Nevada. Governor Gibbons requested the meeting in a letter to President Obama so the President could address statements he made that were critical to Nevada and have caused economic damage to convention business and tourism business in the Silver State. Earlier this year, the President told an audience in Elkhart, Indiana, "You can't get corporate jets. You can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer's dime." That quote was seen by many as an insult to Las Vegas and as a message to companies across the Nation to stay away from Las Vegas for corporate meetings and conventions.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reports over 400 conventions and business meetings scheduled to take place in Las Vegas recently have cancelled. These cancelled events translate into 111,800 guests in Las Vegas and over 250,000 "room-nights". The cancelled conventions and meetings have cost the Las Vegas economy over $100-million, not including gaming revenue.

"I am disappointed at the hypocrisy shown by this Administration," Gibbons said, "President Obama is coming to Las Vegas later this month for a political fundraiser, but he will not help the struggling families in Las Vegas and Nevada who are out of work because of his reckless comments." Governor Gibbons noted, "President Obama is coming to Las Vegas to raise campaign cash for Senator Harry Reid, apparently our money is good enough for the President, but our tourism, jobs, and economic future are not." Gibbons added, "This is politics, pure and simple, President Obama stood for change, but all he has done is brought negative economic change to Nevada."

http://www.ktnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10383051

Mind you the meeting is obstensibly to drum-up support for Dirty Harry Reid, but you have to wonder how Obama expects to do that without damage control over his idiotic statements.

[thundley4]

What a puss-tard:

http://www.ktnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10383051

Mind you the meeting is obstensibly to drum-up support for Dirty Harry Reid, but you have to wonder how Obama expects to do that without damage control over his idiotic statements.

Karma would be well served if the union members hurt by this refused to work at the fund raiser. Just think of a Demonrat get together with no wait staff, bartenders or hookers.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Karma would be well served if the union members hurt by this refused to work at the fund raiser. Just think of a Demonrat get together with no wait staff, bartenders or hookers.

A strike by the hooker's union is just another term for disbanding congress.

[Peter3_1]

Did anyone actually expect anything else? Tekll me, what is Obama'as IQ again?

[Tess Anderson]

Well, the voters in Nevada should keep this in mind when they go to the polls in 2010 and 2012 and stop voting for anti-capitalist retards like Reid and Obama. They supported both of them in that state by large margins.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Well, the voters in Nevada should keep this in mind when they go to the polls in 2010 and 2012 and stop voting for anti-capitalist retards like Reid and Obama. They supported both of them in that state by large margins.

Take heart.

Latest polls say that if the election were held today 33% would vote to keep Reid while 45% would vote for "anything-else-up-to-and-including-defunct-lawn-furniture"...and you better believe every piece of rusted deck chair will be running ads noting how Reid and his campaign fund-raisers were holding the exact same meetings they pilloried honest businessmen for holding and subsequently killed Nevada's economy in the process. This shindig might as well be a campaign event for the GOP.