Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons has been denied a meeting with President Obama when he is in town next week to attend a fundraiser for Sen. Harry Reid at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
Gibbons had demanded a sit-down meeting following Obama's controversial statement that companies shouldn't book trips to Las Vegas if they have received federal bailouts and claims statements he made that were critical to Nevada and have caused economic damage to convention business and tourism business in the Silver State.
In a statement Gibbons put out Monday, the governor said Obama's quote that "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" 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, according to the statement from Gibbons' office.
"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. 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. This is politics, pure and simple, President Obama stood for change, but all he has done is brought negative economic change to Nevada." - FOX News Story
This isn't a big shock to anyone who has followed this Administration since they began their Campaign. If you speak out against Obama, then you will pay. They will hold up funding or refuse any of your requests or do whatever they can to blackmail you.
Obama is not a good leader. He is a dictator of sorts, he will dictate to you what you should and shouldn't do, and if you don't fall into line then you will be shunned.
Change you can believe in.
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