Hizhonor with a couple of molls
Posted on 01/16/2009 9:10:58 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Last year it was the “Bridge to Nowhere” that outraged America. This year it’s the “Mob Museum”.
The Mayor of Las Vegas has a plan to save his city. Unfortunately, the rest of the country does not share his vision. In fact, Oscar Goodman’s proposal to use up to $55 million of federal stimulus funds to build a museum celebrating the Mafia’s influence over Sin City — part of it will presumably be dedicated to the Mayor himself who, in a previous career as a defence lawyer, represented many of the city’s most notorious gangsters — has become something of a national joke.
Hizhonor with a couple of molls
Mr Goodman, 69, a Democrat from Philadelphia, is known fondly in Las Vegas as an extrovert who put his face on casino chips and told a classroom of nine and ten-year-olds that if he had to choose what to take to a desert island, it would be “a showgirl and a bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin” (he has a long-running sponsorship deal with the gin company).
He certainly knows plenty about the Mob: he has represented the likes of Herbert “Fat Herbie” Blitzstein, Nicky Scarfo, and the ex-Starbust boss Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal. In Casino — the 1995 Martin Scorsese movie of Rosenthal’s life — Goodman had a cameo playing himself. When a local reporter wrote a book about Goodman, he entitled it: Of Rats and Men: Oscar Goodman’s Life from Mob Mouthpiece to Mayor of Las Vegas.
Describing how he came up with the idea for Mob Museum Mr Goodman told a local newspaper: “Nobody’s going to come to downtown Las Vegas to look at paintings, they’re not going to look at porcelain, they’re not going to look at miniature trains. What will they look at?
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Part of the Bail Out
The two girls are “Not Guilty.”
Gee I am dissapointed. Nothing said about Nancy or Harry or Blago or Rangle or Bwarny or Bambi.
I’m not sure what the big deal is. The mob history of Vegas isn’t exactly a secret. Any historical treatment of that town would have to acknowledge that element of the story of Las Vegas. So what?
5 spectacular boobs.
We must be nearing the end times.
Wasn’t Oscar Goodman Steve Austin’s boss?
Boy, oh boy. Am I that old? Boss of 6 Million $ Man was Oscar Goldman.
yitbos
This is asanine, I don’t know why the people of Las Vegas keep re-electing this idiot as mayor, he is an embarassement to the city and the state IMHO... no one is going to go to Las Vegas to visit a mob museum... they go there for other reasons.
Did you know that the Las Vegas Strip isn't even in Las Vegas? It is in unincorporated Clark County.
yitbos
Gentleman, we can rebuild him. We have the technology...
$6 million in the ‘70s was big money. Today, that’d barely cover the cost to have your appendix out. =8-0
Yes, I know Las Vegas well, I lived there a good part of my much younger years with Las Vegas was a mod city — and better in many ways that what it has become today.
Oscar is a killer, a piece of slime. I have tons of inside data on him, living here in Vegas. Even worse, he will possibly be the next governor.
The one in the middle is a malignant tumor.
I’m not opposed to the idea of a museum, I hope it’s has “Your mayor is scum-sucking mod lawyer though”. Just iamgine a GOP mob lawyer being elected.
Of Rats and Men? LOL.
“Bombay Sapphire Gin” (he has a long-running sponsorship deal with the gin company). “
Is this appropriate for an elected official?
Mark
It sure wouldn’t pay for a biomechanical superman.
It would probably have to be if not the 600 at least the 60 million dollar man.
It would be up to the Las Vegas City Charter to define if it is or isn't. But it doesn't show good judgment even if it is, at least it doesn't set a good example, even if it is a legal product.
I don’t care that’s gin but it seems very skeevy for a mayor to have an endorsement deal and be hawking some product while in office.
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