Obama makes comment about Las Vegas and Mayor calls Obama a slow learner. For the second time in the last year, President Obama has made a comment about Las Vegas during a public speech and the city of Las Vegas has had enough.
This week while in New Hampshire at a town hall meeting Obama had this to say about Sin City: “You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don’t go blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college,” Obama said.
The people of Las Vegas have had enough because this is the second time Obama has made a public comment about city. Many say that the city loses business immediately after Obama makes a comment, that conventions and vacations are cancelled.
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman had this to say about Obama: “He’s not our friend. I don’t know about Nevada, but Las Vegas, he’s sure not our friend,” Goodman said. “He has a real psychological hang-up about the entertainment capital of the world.”
Everybody says I shouldn’t say it, but I've got to tell you the way it is. This president is a real slow learner,” Goodman said.
About a year ago, Obama had this to say about Vegas, "You can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer's dime."
Immediately after this most recent comment, state leaders quickly stood up for Las Vegas. Nevada Senator Harry Reid said that Obama needs to “lay off Las Vegas.”
Obama responded with a letter to Reid that read: “I hope you know that during my Town Hall today, I wasn’t saying anything negative about Las Vegas. I was making the simple point that families use vacation dollars, not college tuition money, to have fun. There is no place better to have fun than Vegas, one of our country’s great destinations. I have always enjoyed my visits, look forward to visiting in a few weeks, and hope folks will visit in record numbers this year.”
Obama meanwhile is scheduled to visit Las Vegas on February 18 to campaign for Reid. See the video of Obama's comments below.
Last summer, during a speech about the health care bill, President Obama mentioned Utah and Salt Lake City based Intermountain Health Care (IHC) and said that this is an example of an efficient, profitable health care system in the country. Although the comment was positive about the state of Utah and IHC, some Utahans who have or had IHC health coverage and were unhappy with it were upset that it was used as a positive example.
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