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Las Vegas mayor who offered to reopen city as coronavirus control group faces recall effort
If enough valid signatures are collected by 4 August deadline, it will trigger a mayoral recall election
Oliver O'Connell The Independant
New York1 day ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/las-vegas-coronavirus-control-group-mayor-recall-carolyn-goodman-doug-polk-a9506291.html?utm_source=reddit.com
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The mayor of Las Vegas who revealed that she offered to reopen the city as a control group during the ongoing coronaviruspandemic in a jaw-dropping interview on CNN is facing a recall effort.
Professional poker player Doug Polk is leading the effort to recall Mayor Carolyn Goodman.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Mr Polk filed a notice of intent to circulate a recall petition with the city clerks office on Wednesday.
Mr Polk has 90 days to submit a petition signed by 25 per cent of the voters from the 2019 election. This is approximately 6,745 people.
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grumpyduck
(6,231 posts)"Government of the people, by the people, and for the people."
And he was a Republican.
Midnight Writer
(21,738 posts)Can that be correct?
If 6745 is 25% of the voters, than the total vote count would be 26,980.
FreeState
(10,570 posts)The population of Las Vegas in 2019 was 2,621,000. Just over 10% bothered to vote.
Celerity
(43,286 posts)Thats what I get for posting from bed
Celerity
(43,286 posts)Celerity
(43,286 posts)which yields around a 4% turnout
still dog shit
no one they have had this husband and fucked-up duo for ages
She and her husband are super mobbed-up (he was a real life mob lawyer who played himself in Casino)
this is from January 2017, so they now have been running Vegas for 20 years now:
Meet the Goodmans: Las Vegas' Flamboyant Political Family
Theyre into more than showmanship. Theyre struggling to turn the gambling mecca into a thriving 21st century urban place.
https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-las-vegas-goodmans.html
Everything is different in Las Vegas. Even something as simple as the launching of a bike-share program. The bike event started out early on an October morning in standard photo-op fashion. At 7 a.m., workers began setting up a small stage beside the bike station outside the Downtown Grand Hotel and Casino. By 8:15, reporters from the local TV stations were there. Just after 9, the primary speaker, Mayor Carolyn Goodman, arrived. But one piece of stagecraft was conspicuously absent: There were no bikes.
The event started anyway. A reporter asked if the 77-year-old mayor would be riding a bike that day. Only if it has three wheels, she responded, explaining that as a child growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan shed never learned to ride a bike. Reporters looked disappointed. They need not have worried. Moments later, Viva Las Vegas erupted from the sound system, and a whole cavalcade of Elvis impersonators, legs pumping furiously, rounded the corner on new City Share bikes. There were three Elvises in the lead -- each sporting the oversized gold-framed sunglasses, bouffant pompadour and white rhinestone suit that the King wore during his Las Vegas years. Behind them, wearing purple T-shirts and Elvis wigs, came a dozen government employees. Laughter swept through the assembled group as the media rushed toward the Elvises. You might call this Las Vegas politics, Goodman-style.
Its been 17 years since the Goodman family took control of the citys top elected office. Oscar Goodman, a flamboyant mob attorney -- he played himself in the 1995 Martin Scorsese movie Casino -- stunned political observers by winning the mayoralty in his first political campaign. He was re-elected twice. When term limits forced him to step down in 2011, his wife Carolyn decided to run. She was 71 years old and had never served in office before. Despite a somewhat shaky grasp of municipal issues, she won handily.
Oscar (in Las Vegas, hes a first-name celebrity) was a showman. At a time when some residents and business leaders wanted to slough off Las Vegas louche past, Oscar embraced it. He attended events with showgirls on each arm. He kept a prop from the movie The Godfather -- the severed horses head the Corleone family put into the bed of an uncooperative Hollywood producer -- in his office. When a group of fourth-graders asked him what book hed bring with him to a desert island, he said hed prefer to bring a bottle of gin.
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Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)That's the 2018 estimate. So, nowhere near 2.6 million. Still, that turnout is pathetic.
cagefreesoylentgreen
(838 posts)That 2.6 million figure is what you get when you count North Las Vegas, Henderson, and unincorporated Clark County. Out of towners dont realize that the actual city of Las Vegas is comparatively tiny.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Salt Lake + the communities surrounding it, has a population of 1.6 million.
Salt Lake City, however, is just 200,500.