First ever national political party convention in VegasFrom Eric Dondero:
The Libertarian National Committee met over the weekend, and decided on Las Vegas, NV for the Party's 2012 Presidential Nominating Convention. It will be held May 4-6 at the Red Rock Resort.
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "Las Vegas will host Libertarian convention":
Besides political theater, the Libertarian convention and its 1,000 delegates will provide a financial boost to Las Vegas. The meeting is expected to create a non-gaming economic impact of more than $700,000 from conventiongoers alone, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Members of the media and others attracted by the event will add to the projected spending.LA Times columnist Andrew Malcom blogs:
The Las Vegas convention, which C-SPAN will televise, should make for an interesting political show. Unlike the main party meetings, which are choreographed crownings of the presidential nominees every four years, the Libertarians battle it out on the floor, with the best man or woman winning the nod.
"It should be a very interesting dogfight," said Wayne Allyn Root, the Libertarian vice presidential nominee in 2008 and a potential front-runner for the 2012 contest. "Everyone assumes I will be one of the leading candidates. But I haven't decided whether I will run for president."
Finally, the desert city of Las Vegas breaks the ice and gets its first national political convention.Disclaimer: We here at LR agree wholly with the Libertarian Party on domestic issues; disagree strongly with their foreign policy.
The Libertarian Party will gather there the first week of May 2012 to nominate its national ticket of guaranteed losers.
The Libertarians' choice of Nevada along with the Republicans' choice of Tampa for their 2012 nominating convention in late August means the country's two major parties have now settled on their meeting sites.
The only one left is the fringe third-party Democrats...
11 comments:
Why reward vegas which voted fir reid over angle with the convention ... seems a poor choice
Doh! ...cynic1 +1
And good call. The tea party and L(l)ibertarians everywhere (to include me) should boycott that city until it can't afford water (or unions). Then renegotiate.
(I like the word verifi... ponesses... hehehe)
I flew to Las Vegas on business once. Talk about a letdown. I expected the place to be glamorous. It's probably the nastiest shithole I ever stayed in...mainly because everyone there is oblivious to what a nasty shithole it is.(flashy lights)
At least Phenix City Alabama doesn't pretend to be anything but a place to go catch a social disease and leave broke.
In case there is somebody why is thinking of travelling to Las Vegas I'll add that I went there years ago. I had a great time. It does to show you that even unionized hotels can provide good service.
Go Las Vegas Hilton!
It's been ten years since I last visited Vegas.
There are indeed "nasty shithole" aspects to it.
There used to be some up side to it as well.
Obviously the gambling if you're into that.
At one time, decent food was dirt cheap (as in $9.99 for an all-you-can-eat buffet with prime rib, crab legs and shrimp, $5 for a decent ribeye dinner, a great breakfast for $2 or $3).
When I visited in 2000, the prices were up, the quality was way down.
The thing I like about a gambling town is that if you win even a little and know when to quit, a trip there usually pays for itself.
There were no bargains in 2008 when I went.
I'm probably jaded on the place because I was there without my wife. The Flamingo gave me a 2000 square foot suite because of some snafu. That just made my experience worse. I'm pretty spartan by nature. Being all alone in a little palace overlooking sin city is an amazingly shitty situation for a man who sees adultery as using a stranger's toothbrush.
The convention sucked that year too. And I missed my flight back. And I couldn't find my fucking car when I finally landed in Atlanta.
Maybe Las Vegas is a better place than the experience I remember.
Maybe.
I will say that I loved the fact that you could smoke. I quit smoking in 2006, but I still loved that folks could enjoy smoking inside there. It almost had me wanting to buy a box of Marlboros for old time sake. Hell, you can't even smoke outside in a lot of Georgia these days. You can burn the living shit outa some leaves, though...as long as you can prove in court you didn't enjoy the odor whilst ye did it.
I prefer cigars or I did at one time. That with scotch or some other unmolested adult beverage.
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chuck i live in phenix city and i wish i could give every georgia cracker with your attitude lead poisoning. i don't think that's a social disease, though. come on across the river. we'd love for you to visit.
What a dumb fuck. You can't even spell your home city correctly.
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