• Harry Reid,  Las Vegas

    Harry Reid Jeopardy: Las Vegas Casino Revenues Tumble Again

    Holder and Reid

    U.S. Attorney General nominee Eric Holder (L) meets with Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 9, 2008

    Las Vegas Casinos are in trouble with tumbling gaming revenues.

    It just went from bad to worse.

    Nevada gaming revenues tumbled 22.3 percent in October, the single largest monthly drop in state history and the 10th straight month gaming revenues have fallen in the Silver State. For the year, gaming revenues are down 8.3 percent statewide.

    Casinos statewide won just under $905 million during October, compared with $1.165 billion in October 2007, according to figures released Wednesday by the Gaming Control Board. The figure was the lowest statewide one-month total since April 2005.

    Compounding the matter was the comparison with the statewide gaming win total from a year ago. The October 2007 figure was the single-largest monthly win in state history.

    On the Strip, gaming revenues were $475 million, a drop of 25.8 percent compared with $639.9 million a year ago. Analysts looking at the figures said gamblers wagered less but won at an above-average percentage rate.

    Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is up for re-election in 2010 and the GOP would love to defeat him as they did Democrat Tom Daschle in South Dakota when he was Majority Leader.

    Most of Reid’s base of voter support is in Clark County (Las Vegas area), based upon the clout of the large casino employee unions.

    Should the economy NOT improve and should there be continuing problems with home foreclosures in Southern Nevada, Reid could be in trouble.

    The Nevada GOP should be recruiting a good candidate to challenge Reid post haste.


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  • Global Warming,  Harry Reid

    Harry Reid Watch: Killing Las Vegas

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) proclaims that the hidden cost of coal and oil is that they make us sick.
    As Flap heads back to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker, the Las Vegas Journal excoriates their Senior Senator for his remarks above on Gobal Warming.

    Nevada’s own Harry Reid has become a YouTube sensation for continually combining his gloomy disposition with rhetoric that makes even his most partisan supporters cringe.

    His latest hilarious monologue came a few days ago on the Fox Business channel when, in trying to defend the exorbitant costs (and federal subsidies) of renewable power, he asserted that money is overrated in debating the country’s energy policy.

    “Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world,” Sen. Reid blurted out between pregnant pauses. “We’ve got to stop using fossil fuels.”

    Yes, the resources that not only drive the world’s economy and rising standard of living, but make life and prosperity possible in his political base of Las Vegas, are “ruining our country” and “ruining our world.”

    And, the Journal points out the hypocrisy of Reid whose political base of support in Nevada is dependent upon fossil fuel to transport visitors to “Sin City” and to fuel the electricity generators for air conditioning systems that keep Las Vegas bearable in 115 degree summers.

    Last year the U.S. Senate Majority Leader said the Iraq War was lost. He was wrong then as he is now – unless he proposes giving Las Vegas back to the desert?


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