The main winners and losers

The main winners and losers

By Jon Ralston

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class=”bypubdate”> Friday, June 15, 2012 | 02:00

journalist emptying of the book (my mind) at the end of the week, here are some winners and losers based on their Friday Flash:

Winners

Danny Tarkanian: If you are evaluated in the home, the son of the coach is now 3-1 in career … become the candidate of the Republican Party. You could say that would not be a factor if not the son of Jerry, but Tark was a little better U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle and Sue Lowden, in many ways (he was not a tea party) and was by far the best Republican candidate in the public main to the new district. (Check out “Face to face” discussion if I do not believe.) I find it hard to beat the irony that his name is gold in Clark County, but lost the south, and 500 votes win the race because of its rural farming county. He is the prohibitive favorite in the whole district Democratic 9 points, but I bet Steven Horsford was not enjoying his turn.

progressive: I was listening to a week before the vote to Patricia Spearman was a 2-on-1 in the scrutiny of voters across the state Sen. John Lee, but is hard to believe. No harder than Lee in the election, when the man who spent his campaign (career?) Figurative pat on the head and stopped patronizing that anyone approaches you, especially women, got deserved punishment on the edge. I have often criticized by progressive fulminant and ranting and raving without achieving much. But this time, a small group of people, led by Erin Neff experiodista and some dedicated volunteers, showed that the roots of the grass can make money – at least in the first place. This is where, perhaps, should curb their enthusiasm. Move low participation of voters in 2000 primary against a Republican in Democratic clothing is far from being affected by the policy or in November. But the credit it deserves: The other legislative Democrats who feel like taking a path of Lee might want to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It is a progressive fire.

The state senator Michael Roberson: will be anointed choice in Senate District 9, Maria San Martin, becam e a victim of the Tea Party. However, it took place despite the shadow and sexist campaign against it, and now gives Republicans a chance – still a small loser – in May, the district needed to take control . Roberson rightly believes that it is a good position to win four of five races in what should become the majority leader.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: I know what you think: Why did it? Would not you support John Lee? He did. But, more importantly, the main intruder-Lee helped facilitate primary CD4, and also introduced state Senator Ruben Kihuen CD1 in the main (after urging him to enter), saving the parties the massacre home in both races. Prince Harry wins.

losers

Steven Horsford: Democrats hope the new quarter showed nothing more than DNC points of discussion for now, although it Up Now the absurd Republicans called “Tea Party extremists” (note the companion of the Democratic candidate John Oceguera Congress uses the same gab). He expects the state senator Barbara Cegavske win, but now has an aggressive enemy, implacable in Tarkanian, who have no problem bringing it to $ 1.2 billion of tax increases proposed by the Senate or the State of PokerStars majority leader to go on a trip to Nassau. Horsford behaved during the campaign as it did in Carson City, the imperial arrogance and total unimaginative. (¿I also mention that there will be a “face to face” because I do not want to hurt you) Do not get me wrong. He is a favorite drive, but only by demographics

Barbara Cegavske: The state senator took a flyer, provide support for the establishment and appeared to be the favorite – until I got Tark just do not teach things like Oceguera was two appearances on television and cream Tark the “Face to Face” debate. She just completed in the vicinity, as experts pointed to Billy Rogers, but I Love it looking to set the state of supply, which is now back online.

Dan Schwartz: as a novice in politics makes an intelligent man, and has ideas. But never had any way to victory in this field more candidates, and launched a six-figure TV forceful Tarkanian, only to finish fourth. All this money to the 2728 vote? Painful.

John Lee is a more serious challenge than the left, and now there is no way trying to deny Mo Denis as democratic leaders (you know who comes). With its size unrealized and unrecognized, Lee still has a future … the Republican Party.

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DesertXpress: Tim Tebow high speed train?

DesertXpress: Tim Tebow high speed train?

class = “caption”> Richard N. Velotta How do the Denver Broncos I had my fair share of seeing, probably come from behind victory after quarterback Tim Tebow was named head of the team last season.

In several games, the Broncos have led to death, only to be rescued the amazing game that turned a certain defeat into a victory.

Now, I wonder if the announcement last week in Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority DesertXpress and entrepreneurship is equivalent to a high speed train passing of Ave Maria.

Metro, which operates the Los Angeles light rail transport system and DesertXpress a private company that plans to build a 185 mile high speed rail line between Las Vegas and Victorville, California, signed a Memorandum of Understanding that is expected to give rise to the construction of about 50 km rail line between Victorville and Palmdale, California, and the eventual transfer of passengers from Palmdale to downtown Los An geles.

For those who have closely followed this story, the path between Victorville and Palmdale has always been the missing link. California is a high-speed rail system s’enruten through Palmdale. Victorville is always seen as the South Terminal DesertXpress.

building that missing link between Palmdale and Victorville can change a game. Basically, it becomes possible to think of being able to take a train between Los Angeles and Las Vegas on a trip that will take seven hours.

Many readers have pointed out that there is the railway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. But do not build high speed trains and freight transport is a priority in this line, passenger trains must wait for freight trains to pass where no two ways – most of the route

Sun In addition, passenger trains could reach about 80 km per hour, which would take seven hours of travel. Because he left his route of Amtrak’s Desert Wind in 1997. Las Vegas Railway Express Inc. continues efforts to use the route for the project, the train X says in its website that trains traveling at five.

According to the agreement signed on Thursday, Andrew Mack, director of operations and DesertXpress Art Leahy, CEO of Metro, DesertXpress work in obtaining the necessary environmental approvals for construction along corridor between Victorville and Palmdale – a process the company and the route between Las Vegas and Victorville.

Metro work on the development of improved roads between Palmdale and Union Station in Los Angeles. The Memorandum allows both companies to explore opportunities in which passengers would be transported to Los Angeles

They will be able to study double and triple track route to Palmdale and whether to upgrade the tracks on the rules that allow DesertXpress teaches the use feasible.

As with any important proposal, which is new, there are more questions than answers.

Will it be possible for passengers to approach the train to Los Angeles (or Las Vegas) and do all the time without having to get off the train? If passengers must transfer to the intermodal station in Palmdale?

About this trip? On the basis of distance and steady pace along the existing tracks, the journey will probably take at least 2 1/2 hours. It would be fast enough to compete against trips by car (unlikely) or plane (maybe)

to travel at any time expressly or there will be several stops along the way? With each stop, the concept becomes less and less viable. One would think that stopping Palmdale (point of transfer is possible) and Victorville (the point where the San Bernardino County residents can embark to go to Las Vegas) will be a possibility.

becomes an end in Victorville? If some of the ideas that seem less viable Victorville, DesertXpress plans have reduced the cell and place less emphasis in this city?

What are the implications for long-term plan? Western High Speed ​​Rail Association is always designed to Las Vegas is a natural center for future high-speed lines in Salt Lake City, Denver and Phoenix. Is this the catalyst for the south of the rail network?

Speaking rebrand DesertXpress train XpressWest consistent with this possibility.

Many people have written off as DesertXpress bad idea.

new opportunities with the Metro may be the only game company has to save the game.

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The latest survey reveals very little about Nevada - on the surface

The latest survey reveals very little about Nevada - on the surface

By Jon Ralston

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class=”bypubdate”> Friday, the first of June 2012 | 02:00

pair days before the 2010 elections, having predicted the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, leader will survive, I received an email from smart member of the Republican Party said he was “very brave” but probably wrong.

“We crush the independence of Harry,” I was the Republican Sharron Angle. “() In the latest (survey) are the best in our campaign.”

relate this story not just gently remind him that I was right – although it never ceases to be an expert in the chest, swelling – but to remind all the light of recent Nevada polls numbers that are often misunderstood and the least I can be wrong. In fact, surveys of more than five months before the election showed very little on the surface that you do not know, the proverbial shot in time, space chosen, the state of the game.

So when NBC / Marist poll released this week, said the presidential race and the U.S. Senate in Nevada are air-ups – 48-46 for Presi dent Barack Obama, 46 – 44, and Senator Dean Heller – my visceral response: No joke.

But addict survey, which delved into the crosstab, you can say something about the validity of the survey and the scheme set to help determine the outcome in November. As the holiday season increases with the surveys that will likely be published by independent sources such as NBC / Marist to establish the basis and works with independent sources not biased (usually fundraising), worth given that this survey remind you seek.

Back in 2010, many surveys incorrectly under the impression that the angle was likely to beat Reid. But there were problems with almost all these studies, wisely by exploring the interior. Reid pollster Mark Mellman I was having only consistently accurate numbers for a reason. His model of the response to review carefully about what was actually

NBC / Marist poll made some assumptions that could be instructive for November, but can also interfere with current results. Or … maybe not.

As research

certainly not influence the key factors that determine the outcome of top-of-ticket races – and perhaps others too. Three keys to watch:

• Regional Response: Nevada has three states: North, South and Rural. The higher the percentage of votes in Clark County, the better for Democrats, who have a great advantage for the record. NBC / Marist poll shows participation model of Clark County is up 72 percent of the vote in November. It has a high content of around 5 percentage points in the last two elections, fails the super-conservative rural Nevada almost the same amount. Washoe County, the counties of swing, was closer. But if this is what it seems that the turnout in November, which is unlikely, President Obama is likely to win the state, Representative Shelley Berkley and could be a U.S. Senator. Meanwhile, NBC / Marist poll showed Berkley Clark won six and lost by 12 points at Washoe – I’m willing to bet $ 10,000 for Mitt Romney, if these are the results of November, on the basis of that response will probably will lose a considerable margin. In addition, Obama has shown only Clark wins by 5 points – if this happens, lose situation

• Hispanic participation: NBC / Marist poll has Hispanics 19 percent of the electorate. that is something that never happened in the history of the state. It is the largest in the last two cycles, in which 15 percent of voters are Latino. If 19 percent is not happening – not impossible – I think it is hard to believe Heller or Mitt Romney would win. A warning: survey shows that Hispanic respondents, Obama won 61-33, and 57-39 in Berkeley-not nearly as large as the 2008 Obama or Reid in 2010. If these percentages are correct, both in Berkeley and Obama are in trouble.

Reply • Gender: Women represent 50 percent of NBC / Marist universe, which seems a bit low – usually around 52 percent. There is a gender gap – Obama takes the lead among women 54-40 and 50-40 of Berkley. So despised in this study.

Other factors – such as many elderly people fall, which is the basis of loyalty and enthusiasm as the partisan level . However, regional, gender and Hispanic participation will tell us more than we know, so these numbers are valid for tracking all surveys.

Another reason went back to that time was in 2010 that angered Republicans here in Washington Thursday to NBC / Marist results, because they thought that was distorting the Democrat. Maybe they are.

But I have a very bold prediction that only experts pensive, almost omniscient can do: You can not

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Fox News slanders of Las Vegas, the city is quiet

Fox News slanders of Las Vegas, the city is quiet

Class class = “credits”> Associated Press

class=”caption”> Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly appears on Fox News program “O’Reilly Factor” in 2007 in New York.

class=”byline”> By Jon Ralston (contact)

class=”bypubdate”> Friday, May 25, 2012 | 02:00

class = “photo-byline”> Justin M. Bowen

class=”caption”> Oscar Goodman swears his wife, Carolyn Goodman, as the new mayor of Las Vegas City Council during a meeting on Wednesday, July sixth 2011th

Shortly after took office in February 2009, in the unlikely maintenance of Elkhart, Indiana, Obama is attempting to Bombay Sapphire, Oscar Goodman:

“You can not go on tour in Las Vegas or go to the Super Bowl in the currency the taxpayer’s dime, “Obama said, referring to the travel companies that received government bailout.

Then Mayor Goodman, as I’m sure you remember, all but spit their olive bombarded in the media and did not stop in the coming years, more than two. When the president made the comments focused on other Vegas almost exactly a year later – “When times are tough, do not blow a lot of money in Las Vegas when you are trying to save for college,” even those who saw his comments as of 2009 there was a reasonable “time 02:00 deceive me” time.

But now, with one of the most horrible national television this week in Las Vegas, as we suffered a terrible recession, I wonder why the Goodman family are not outraged, threatening to hit people standing to honor the city and grabbing all the cable during Mayor Carolyn Goodman (and perhaps the first man ) can do.

Should not the last to save an endless list of national data given to the poor, stigmatized and traumatized Sin City, Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, “spoke of a piece incredibly stupid and insulting to me ‘Las Vegas wine. The piece was aired on the night of the parody of journalism, and contained one of the most insulting phrase I saw in Las Vegas producer Jesse Watters O’Reilly.

foxnewsinsider.com promoted segment with this headline. “O’Reilly Factor” producer know why Las Vegas in the unemployment rate rose “

Hmm, I am optimistic thinking to yourself, maybe this turn the country into a devastating recession here, perhaps further why so many people are unemployed, and perhaps looking at the housing crisis (which was not too concerned with the inaccuracies title – the unemployment rate is falling here -. because I know little, and my producer is about grabbing the attent ion of the viewer).

Oh, no. When the shooting began painfully cliche side agreements “Viva Las Vegas” and the first interview with Robin Leach, I knew what time we go down – and it is paved with good intentions. Leach, the his credit, Watters said that Las Vegas is a “tale of two cities”, but Watters is only interested in a -. Unreal in a Las Vegas Boulevard South

Watters then interviewed by a mix of tourists, who, surprisingly, reported on the holiday and shopping in the Gaza Strip. This is better than Edward R. Murrow in London rooftop. innovative materials.

without thinking interspersed among the interviews were fragments of films they had no clear link to the piece (but may have occurred to the folk art Watters).

And after the segment was positive, and Fox.

Watters find someone who complains that the following “Obama said in Las Vegas is the place to be, died in three or four years.” Bingo. then played a clip of Obama’s 2010 Las Vegas and found a man in the president waste .

ridiculously bad journalism. However, a large of its kind for the Romney campaign.

Then grill for three minutes, complete with faux wisdom, and the Quick Edit, Watters appeared again in the study. This is where the real division in the parody and you could see what Ailes Fox. This part can not be paraphrased as:

O’Reilly ” Therefore, it does not work “

Watters:” There are around half a million people in Las Vegas (not at all, and he was a county’s population is four times larger), but $ 40 million to visit Las Vegas each year, making it drip economic situation. “

What? I trader David, please.

Watters more:” The conservative magnates Sheldon Adelson is running Gaza, Steve Wynn, and compete to see who can build a larger fiefdoms here. “. or Macau? And there are other companies? A spectacular view of the factors.

O’Reilly:” Can not get a job there ( in Gaza) do not need the services of the people here? “

Watters:” They are hiring, but not so big-time. You are getting small jobs, menial jobs, a lot of illegal immigrants. We saw a lot of illegal immigrants on the street handing out cards strip club, the people doing the work of slaves. “

Finally some news! No jobs in Las Vegas, in exception of illegal immigrants! So the next pounces on Watters and O’Reilly asked how he knew they were illegal immigrants, right?

But … no. was finished. Maybe Watters knew they were illegal because they are grilled. Or maybe he knew, as he said. Or perhaps because, um, do not spea k English. never know.

and people say journalism is dead.

One question, though: Where is the outrage of the Goodman family. Or LHCV? Or Trade

waiting.

It is time to test a representative of Transparency

It is time to test a representative of Transparency

By Jon Ralston

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class=”bypubdate”> Wednesday, May 23, 2012 | 02:00

I have a test for contrast.

pedants or superficial or meaningless. Say: “No new taxes”, or be labeled a waste of money waste. Say: “More money for education,” or be branded an enemy of children.

This is all part of the devolution of political discourse, take advantage of today drapers Do you give what the public is eager to eat – a miraculous alchemy of turning what should be emetic in something that tastes better and is less filling. But both Therefore, a litmus test comes along that really will not turn something about the character of political intent.

thanks to the Assembly Republican leader Pat Hickey, one that we are about to be applied to each legislator to vote, and every candidate who comes from the 12 th June Primaries, who wants to be member number 63 of the banda I call the test of transparency, which reveal how lawmakers and legislators candidates to, think about pulling the curtain on campaign financing and influe nce peddling and will be a window if you want to protect the secrecy of the system or the right to information.

As I wrote on Sunday, the proposals Hickey is long and must be supported by someone who believes it is time to end the institutionalized corruption in Carson City Kabbalah. As the Secretary of State Dean Heller and Miller as Ross is specifically because these reforms are to enter the building, but not legally find their way to the governor’s desk.

It’s time to change that. Or at least try to get the record long before 2013, so when Hickey is a pack a day, can be transferred on Day 2.

I know what I’m lacking sleep. Or live in Polyanna planet. Or dip into my reserves of Glenlivet.

None of the above. What was out of patience with broken systems that inhabit the mediocre will do everything possible to protect the structure built on the foundations of the squalor and the only way out is a revolving door.

really do not care if Hickey is honest – I think – as I do on the fundamental wave of his plan. In case you missed the point, are:

• Reports in real time campaign contributions;

• Require candidates to tell how many were on hand after the election;

> • reported the news of intriguing and donors who give advice;

Secretariat • Empowerment of State to audit reports;

• cooling-off period for legislators before they can become lobbyists.

My guess is that there are a lot of condescending smiles on the faces of legislators and intriguing that they heard these things before and just calculate the challenge is to find a way to kill the idea, probably during the closing rush. Good.

I have a challenge in mind . And that’s why he sent the test of transparency, all Members voted in this series, looking for places in these principles. Long before the hammer comes down in the ’13 session, we know that members of the crew 63 (I will send proof of transparency imposed on non-game winners in major 12 June) will be occupied by institutionalized corruption and that they will not. And, yes, the lack of response or some mouth-floury ” I want to see the written proposal “to” no “votes.

I will post all results on my blog, so I’ll update the list as new sites come If you want an indication of how transparency is like sunlight to vampires that suck blood out of the system, consider what happened when conservative think tank, the NPRI of Nevada Press Association and the issues of these people on similar issues. few employees responded .

I would say that we should be ashamed, but shame is home to 120 days every two years in the state capital. I know some Democrats are back due to stupid Hickey said the ethical failures of democracy during his press conference on Monday. But I have three words for them: Get over it. And if Hickey and Republicans want to upload your high horse theft policy, I have five words for them . Jim Gibbons and John Ensign

I know how difficult it is to get voters interested in this issue, which is what those in power bank. So I do what the consultants tell candidates that make the its empty sound bites to ensure the least idea sink in vacuum:

keep talking about it again and again, until we know that passes the test of fire and conducive to corruption.

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Dean Heller budget gimmick is silly cynical

Dean Heller budget gimmick is silly cynical

class = “credits”> Steve Marcus

class=”caption”> Senator Dean Heller (R-NV), looks on during the process 9/11 commemoration ceremony at Memorial Park police on Sunday, 11 September, the 2011th

class=”byline”> By Jon Ralston (contact)

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 | 02:00

Senator Dean Heller “no pay no budget” dumbest idea of ​​the bill to come in a while.

And perhaps more intelligent.

Heller, who spoke about his stupid temper in the Senate Tuesday proposing a placebo to hide the electorate, cynically exploiting voter anger to advance their own interests, but certainly not the country. As the scenes of an election year to go, this is not enough to call this a gap, because that would mean it is not harmful.

n. This is because it is not designed to fix or improve, but the Barbarians at the Gate, while Heller, hidden inside their Trojan horse “ideas” become DC, but DC

When Heller was first proposed this idea to cut the salaries of Congress if the Senate and House approved a budget, I thought it was obviously a trick that you meet the qualifications of the value of local news cycle. But in the last year, as I’m sure his interviewer said, people were eating the “idea” and so has become more emboldened. “There is no budget to pay” is a symbol of the worst in politics – an empty phrase, without weight or substance. The Democrats are an expert in such madness – they want to “preserve and protect Medicare,” but few have any idea how to do it

Your face, the idea that adherence to their members of Congress reward the best response is ridiculous .. Heller has not known that almost half of the millionaires and the other half probably come near the office? Absolutely.

Yes, many would feel the blow of a couple hundred grand. But if so, why stop at a budget? Why not force them to lose their reward when they vote for a budget that will “end Medicare as we know,” or create a “death board” for the elderly?

Or go further: If Heller is really serious – and it does – why not suggest that if you do not pass the budget that each should give up? I bet the audience goes crazy for this, Senator.

Finally made me rethink this heavy political ploy, Heller was a seven-minute floor speech Tuesday. I was surprised that none of his colleagues was slower.

Senator, that shows no sense of irony, gave this speech as Capraesque that Heller only come to the Capitol, Polyannaish maker of good works that simply can not believe my colleagues are doing .

Heller began to speak of non-coincidence, but as the law is ridiculous to speak a “serious debate about the future of our nation …. The American people do not think today is serious debate. ”

Really?

Heller then went on to indirectly insult the majority of the Senate Harry Reid, suggests that inclusion of the 100 Business Club “can be regarded as a political comedy, if the game is not that great.” I think he called you a fool and Senator Reid.

But then Heller went on to indicate their level of self-knowledge is even smaller than I thought.

“is nothing less than a political show,” said Heller, a budget speech and debate, but may be related to the measures he was about to talk about it.

And then, the senator asked, “Have you ever wondered why the Congressional approval rate is so low?”

Actually no, Senator. But I guess I s ay: It is unnecessary because of tricks like this

Heller acknowledged, however, that the law “is not a magic solution.” Really? The way we talk about it …

Legislative truck after discovering that he managed to get 10 – cuéntelo – co-sponsors for his trip to nowhere-bill, I pulled on my calculator is the tenth in the U.S. Senate. Impressive.

Ah, I understand: When the proposed revocation of the counterparts of wages, which will meet to access your account. Therefore, only helps members Heller forward – yes, three-term congressman, former secretary and former Assembly member, not a politician, but a rare bird that rises above the rest of the birds crime political

Sun “Our nation is literally can not afford to survive, sound bites and press releases about the importance of the budget,” concluded the man who sent more than two dozen my news on “The budget payment” from July. (Hey, “unlabeled” accepted!)

As Heller said it would be funny if the stakes not so high. They are, so it is not. In fact, takes advantage of the naivety of the public to get an exorbitant rate (), which has to do with solving the budget crisis.

I’m sure many people reading this will be outraged by what looks like my condescension with the average voter. If so, I have a mitigating news: I have no lack of respect for you Dean Heller

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Skybridge Alternatives Conference will return year, a prestigious presence in the industry in Las Vegas

Skybridge Alternatives Conference will return year, a prestigious presence in the industry in Las Vegas

class = “credits”> Sam Morris

class=”caption”> Mayor Oscar Goodman was interviewed by Maria Bartiromo of CNBC anchor spread over the site in the Skybridge alternative news conference on Thursday, 20 May 2010 at the Bellagio.

class = “caption”> Richard N. Velotta Former Mayor Oscar Goodman was in his element last week of the stage in a major conference of financial services industry, martini in hand and dancers in each arm.

Goodman as President of the Organizing Committee of Las Vegas, was the key to the city and managing partner Anthony Scaramucci of Skybridge Capital, which produced the Skybridge alternatives (salt) held in Las Vegas four years ago and returned again the following year.

Scaramucci was very surprised when pavoneaban Goodman is on stage, because the presentation was not the SALT program.

“We just wanted to welcome you and thank you for coming,” said Goodman before a crowd of over 1000, which began to gather waiting to hear the speech of the former vice president Al Gore.

For about three minutes, Goodman had been Santa Claus in a three-piece suit, spread joy and happy memories of Las Vegas for the industry group in the ci ty always wanted.

Skybridge, research-driven investment firm with U.S. $ 6.2 billion in assets, was founded in 2005, a conference of the Sun was born in the midst of a recession in 2009. The event includes an analysis of macroeconomic trends and geopolitical events, and other investment opportunities in the context of a dynamic global economy.

Over the years, the conference was presented at the Bellagio, I had some heavyweights are saying. The former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, the Republican Party’s favorite president, Mitt Romney, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Colin Powell, as the stage of salt. This year, he joined Al Gore and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and 2008 vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, as speakers of the conference.

The first conference, in the presence of 500, the event this year were sold in February, the 2,000 tickets

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Las Vegas Convention and Visitors of Congress Sales Executive John Schreiber has worked with his partner Victor Oviedo Skybridge from the first event was scheduled in Las Vegas.

“We sit and talk about how he could surprise my boss with some light between the speaker,” said Schreiber.

hope is that fund managers attending this event not only remember the impressive speaker, but to have a good time.

“When the participants at home and someone asks:” Why did you do in Vegas? “We tell them: ‘For us, the price of Vegas,” said Schreiber.

Chris Meyer, vice president of sales LHCV, said the organization should pay special attention to the event, representing the business sector that the city wants more.

“The organizers of this event are great supporters face to face contacts and meetings business,” said Meyer. “And that’s exactly the message we try to present, we are all business during the d ay, but we have fun at night.”

Oviedo, the main organizer of Salt, a fan of Las Vegas.

“When you look objectively at Las Vegas, this is the ideal place for conferences or events,” said Oviedo. “We will have this conference and the facilities first class hotel in the world.”

Oviedo said that the common experience of Las Vegas is perfect for business.

“When you meet someone for the first time and wants to continue this relationship, if the field, are less likely to get the phone call,” said Oviedo. “But if you call back in New York and says,” Hey, do not forget the conference, when we sat down and we had this conversation? And you have a shared experience, is more likely to maintain this relationship and build an event. “

And if you think that these executives are looking for wild and crazy time, because what happens here stays here, think again. Skybridge made fun of the participants.

One night company hire Maroon 5 to perform a private concert to launch an initiative called philanthropic nonprofit foundation to Aspire.

Another night, was not in the pool for “under the stars at the party San Gennaro “tasting Italian food chefs offer Bellagio.

Oviedo, said the salt a great success and would recommend to go to bat for the industry conference in Las Vegas.

And if the former mayor and his chorus can also convince a bank to meet this case, the effort worth it