Posted on 02/17/2021 1:53:08 AM PST by Libloather
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A county board voted unanimously Tuesday to rename busy McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas after former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada.
The all-Democratic Clark County Commission approved a measure directing the county’s airport staff to file a change with the Federal Aviation Administration renaming the facility Harry Reid International Airport.
The county commission oversees the airport and is the final authority on a name change.
There have been longstanding calls to rename the airport. Its current namesake, former Nevada Sen. Patrick McCarran, served as one of Nevada’s two U.S. senators from 1933 until his death in 1954. He was known for his contributions to aviation along with his anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic views.
Reid, a Democrat and the former Senate majority leader, retired from the Senate in 2016 after serving 30 years. The proposal was put forward by Commissioner Tick Segerblom, a former chair of the state Democratic Party who announced last week he is again running for the chairmanship.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it must take steps to process a name change before officially recognizing it. That's expected to take a few months.
“It is with humility that I express my appreciation for the recognition today. I would like to express my deep gratitude to Commissioner Segerblom, the entire Clark County Commission, and the many others who have played a part in this renaming," Reid said in a statement Tuesday.
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McCarran, a Democrat, was the author of the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act, which established the federal government’s role in overseeing aviation by regulating airline fares and investigating accidents.
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ya renaming the airport for reid would be a real black eye for the state.
I thought ‘UFO Highway’ was already taken..........
Disgraceful. One of the most corrupt and despicable individuals to have ever darkened the U.S. Senate.
That’s right reward a traitor!!!
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Rather than rename the whole airport, they should’ve just renamed the exercise room.
What a turd.
What, was “I got the crap kicked out of me by my drunken brother airport” already taken?
CC
The “LYING BASTARD” International Airport!
Dingy ping.
Never setting foot in Vegas.
Commissioner Tick Segerblom? A Democrat? All Democrats are ticks.
Well, you can rename an airport but can you make the name ‘stick’ with the public?
BWI (Baltimore Washington International) has been renamed for the late Thurgood Marshall for many years. People still call it ‘BWI’ everyday.
Telling the world you lack character by renaming your busy airport after a corrupt, despicable, cheap, partisan politician is ridiculous. Certainty makes me want to go there less.
Reid had done SO much...
All the good jokes are taken, I’m out of here.
LOL! It must have a CROOKED RUNWAY! What a DUMBASS IDEA!
Ugh.... why?!
Cancel culture.
We can thank Reid giving us the Supreme Court seats and judiciary tilt right. His corrupt end of the filibuster let us get a lot of judges through the senate in four years.
Every flight guaranteed to fall off the runway. Beware.
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