While most of this country is drooling and falling all over themselves to kneel at the feet of The Chosen One, President Barack Obama, Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons straight arms him.
President Obama, after threatening companies to stop taking junkets to Vegas on tax payers money even if the end result was increased revenue which many of these junkets produce, caused an estimated $100 million loss of revenue to the city of Las Vegas. This outraged Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons so much that he refused an invite to the White House, stating “While I appreciate the offer, I am not interested in a handshake and a hello from President Obama, I am interested in an apology and plan to undo the damage the President did”.
I say job well done to the Governor, who refuses to allow the national love fest with Barack Obama to stop him from speaking his mind.
Now if we can get the country to open their eyes to terrible decision they’ve seemed to have made to follow him off a cliff….
The full article below is pulled from CNN.com:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Nevada’s Republican governor has turned down an invitation from the White House to briefly greet President Obama when he visits the state tomorrow for a Democratic fundraising event, citing comments the president made earlier this year calling on companies that received taxpayer-funded bailouts to avoid wasting money on luxuries like company planes and Vegas vacations.
“While I appreciate the offer, I am not interested in a handshake and a hello from President Obama, I am interested in an apology and plan to undo the damage the President did,” Gov. Jim Gibbons said in a Monday statement.
He again called on Obama to publicly promote Nevada tourism, and to apologize for his remark that business leaders receiving money from the government “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,” blaming the president for the recent cancellation of hundreds of conventions and other meetings originally scheduled to take place in Las Vegas, and the loss of more than $100 million in revenue.
