Posted on 11/23/2018 8:52:00 PM PST by Impy
Nevada Gov.-elect Steve Sisolak (D) is pushing to rename a Las Vegas airport after former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who is battling pancreatic cancer.
Lawmakers in Nevada have been aiming to rename the McCarran International Airport after Reid, citing his prominence in the state's political history, as well as former Sen. Patrick McCarran's problematic legacy. McCarran was an avowed fascist and he has been accused of espousing racist and anti-Semitic ideals.
Sisolak said during a meeting on Tuesday that he intends to name the McCarren International Airport after Reid, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He also said he will push to rename Reno-Tahoe International Airport after the late Sen. Paul Laxalt (R), the grandfather of Sisolak's Republican opponent in the governor's race, Adam Laxalt.
[Laxalt and Reid] both made massive contributions to the long-term well-being of the state of Nevada, and sometimes we dont recognize people appropriately, Sisolak said.
Reid, who announced he was retiring from the Senate in 2015, spoke during his final floor speech about his wish to change the McCarran International Airport's name.
Ive tried for years to get the name taken off, a Democratic senator from Nevada who was an awful man," Reid said, according to Roll Call. "I tried to get his name off of that. It didnt work."
He noted that McCarran Airport is the fifth-busiest airport in the U.S.
Nevada state Sen. Tick Segerblom, who championed a bill in 2017 that would have renamed the facility to the Harry Reid Las Vegas International Airport, estimated the name change would cost about $1.5 million. He said it could be paid for by private contributions, according to the Review-Journal.
Pawn Stars Airport -———————
Teddy Kennedy and J Mccaine brain cancer
Harry Reid pancreatic cancer.
I’ve heard of something called Karma.
Cheat You Fair international airport.
How about “Air Of Corruption?”
Fitting for the new state of Calvada. Wonder how much time sleestak will spend in Carson City.
[Tick Segerblom]
I had to look that one up.
A tribute to corruption. Harry did cut his teeth in local Vegas corruption after all.
After Harry Reid? Pirate Intercontinental Airfield!
He has cancer?
Thanks Impy. Serrano's got the disks.
Please, NO!
This is right out of 1984.Erasing the past to make the present comply with the current truth of the party.
Airport code: POS
Oh I think the “glory holes” in some roadside bathroom could be named in “honor” of Harry Dingy Reid....
If McCarran was a fascist, he wasn’t the only such American in the 1930s.
Even FDR praised Mussolini’s economic policies.
Fixed it for you.
FDR was a fascist!.
https://mises.org/library/three-new-deals-why-nazis-and-fascists-loved-fdr
"I don't mind telling you in confidence," FDR remarked to a White House correspondent, "that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman."
That would not play well in Peoria.
They should name the sewage treatment plant after him maybe.
Harry POS Reid airpot.
A proper name for the LV Airport should be, in honor of Harry Reid, “The Cash, Carry, and Crash Airport”.
Reportedly cash from the Mob, Carry money to the Bunny ranch, and Crash, as he did when he didn’t pay his prostitute who whacked the crap out of him until he hit the floor.
Of course all of this is just “SARCASM” but I’m willing to be that there is some truth in each of my names for the airport.
#5. NOPE to “he can live in the infamy that he rightly deserves”.
Remember, the Democratic Aholes elected many times over to Congress so let’s change you wish to “he can live in the infancy that he rightly deserves”.
Hey Harry, you want peach pablum for breakfast? Get it yourself you crooked bastard!
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