Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport to be renamed after ex-Nevada Sen. Harry Reid

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | 02/18/2021 | AP

[Signalman]

LAS VEGAS – A county board voted unanimously Tuesday to rename busy McCarran International Airport 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 long-standing calls to rename the airport. Its current namesake, 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 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.

[Nextrush]

Welcome to Dingy International Airport.

[SkyDancer]

They have no idea what’s involved in renaming an airport.

[Nextrush]

El Rushbo’s great moniker for Harry Reid.

[hsmomx3]

I’m surprised they haven’t attempted to rename it O’Bama International.

[Bellagio]

Another communist county board that puts criminal(democrat) names on places, roads buildings and parks... just like Stalin, Marx and Mao.

[littleharbour]

It’s a perfect choice. Replace one former “racist” Senator with another former racist Senator who liked Obama because he was “light skinned” with no “negro dialect”. You can’t make this stuff up.

[nuke_road_warrior]

Well naming it Michael Corleone Airport WOULD have been a little obvious.

[KTM rider]

Civilization is weird.

How can it even be some kind of a priority to re-name a facility after a total slimeball pile of excrement politician.

Politicians are the cause of most pain and suffering in the world and we are supposed to worship them for some reason ?

why not just tell the truth and call it Money Toilet International Airport, big sign when you land : " Welcome to the Money Toilet, Las Vegas....Flush all you want "

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Why not just name the airport Crooked Senators Interntional Airport. Doing so will allow Nevadans to celebrate McCarran, Reid, and all their other crooked Nevada senators.

[Kickass Conservative]

Are they renaming the Reno Tahoe Airport Corelone International Airport?

[Dilbert San Diego]

I think there are a few schools in this country named for Obama.

If I recall correctly, the Little Rock airport was renamed after Bill and Hillary.

Off topic a bit, but can hardly wait to see, the new names of the 44 schools in San Francisco to be renamed, as they go through their purge of names such as Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Paul Revere, and even Diane Feinstein.

[null and void]

I want a Federal law which bans federal money to any entity for any reason if that entity is named after any politician, alive or deceased (and yes I don’t give a dam which party).

I'll go you one better:

I want a Federal law which bans any politician, alive or deceased from appearing on coinage or currency. Bring back allegorical figures and images of Lady Liberty, Iconic American wildlife, and everyman images of Americans (Indian head cent, buffalo nickel for historical precedent; maybe add cowboys, hard hat workers, and other builders for example?)

We had Lady Liberty gracing our coinage from 1793 to 1933, she was portrayed as a bust, sitting, standing, walking or striding boldy out of the coin and into the future!

The prettiest coin we ever made (in my not so humble opinion) was the 1907 deep relief St. Gaudens Double Eagle:

[american_ranger]

I live here. I will never fly out of Reid Airport. Reid and his kids are crooks. I’ll drive to Phoenix and fly out of there.

[Afterguard]

Wow! That’s quite a black eye for a pretty nice airport.

[monkeyshine]

Anyone who watched the move Casino should know that the coked up, whoring, shakedown artist politician (played by Dick Smothers) was based on Harry Reid, when he sat on the Nevada gaming commission. There is a scene in the film in which the politician denies Frank Rosenthal (in the film they call him Ace Rothstein played by Robert Deniro) and there is a big argument both in the hearing room and in the hallway in front of the press. That is almost identical to the video of the hearing in which Reid denies Rosenthal his casino license. In the film, Rothstein refers to the Commissioner as “Senator” which is a big giveaway as who whom this character was based on. Even though it is obviously Reid, calling a Commissioner “Senator” is just icing on the cake (the film was made some 20 odd years after all this).

If you watch the video of the hearing, and the scene in the film consecutively, Scorcese almost has the shot sequence and dialogue exactly as it appears on the original archive tape.

Also fwiw, the lawyer representing Rothstein in the film is played by the real life lawyer who represented Rosenthal at the casino license hearing - Oscar Goodman. He later went on to become Mayor of Las Vegas.

[newfreep]

"Black Eyes Matter"

[lodi90]

I set foot in Vegas once...about 40 years ago.I must say that the countryside there is quite impressive and the drive from Vegas to Death Valley was *very* impressive.
But as for the city itself all I can say is if the United States were to be given a giant enema they’d stick the nozzle in through Las Vegas.

They could name the airport Jesus Is Lord” International and I still wouldn’t go there.

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Pretty much the same here. I went to an event in Vegas in the early ‘90s. Disliked it so much I swore I would never go back. And I haven’t been back since.

[Fiji Hill]

San. Pat McCarran (D-Nev.) was an American patriot who helped to rid the US government of Red spies.

[Gay State Conservative]

Yup,it seems that “Senator” got around a little bit.I wonder if he was mobbed up as was Bella Pelosi’s father.

[monkeyshine]

I have a family connection to the development of Las Vegas over the decades. So I traveled out there - with a lot of family - a couple times a year since I can remember. Then as a younger man, to party cheaply, sometimes to see a band play. Then when I joined the work force, I have been back several times a year for conventions almost every year. The place has changed dramatically over the decades. It is rarely any fun to go if you have to stay in casino hotels and conventional halls. They cuisine has improved but at a very steep price. I miss the cheap prime rib dinners and the keno breakfasts.

But I will say, it is the only place I know of where I can go shoot machine guns.