Did Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons request a meeting with Obama?”
Gov. Jim Gibbons said today that President Obama has denied his request to meet with him in Las Vegas later this month. The governor had sent the president a letter last month saying he wanted to discuss the economic difficulties facing the state’s tourism industry. Gibbons said today that he was notified Obama won’t meet with him while the president is in Las Vegas on May 26 for a fundraiser for Sen. Harry Reid. “I am disappointed at the hypocrisy shown by this administration,” Gibbons said in a prepared statement. “President Obama is coming to Las Vegas later this month for a political fundraiser, but he will not help the struggling families in Las Vegas and Nevada who are out of work because of his reckless comments.” Gibbons is referring to comments Obama made earlier this year regarding business trips to Las Vegas by companies receiving federal bailout money. “This is politics, pure and simple, President Obama stood for change, but all he has done is brought negative economic chan
ReprintPrint Email Font Resize Governor won’t get meeting with president The Associated Press Posted: 05/18/2009 02:02:11 PM PDT CARSON CITY, Nev.—Gov. Jim Gibbons said he was notified Monday that President Obama won’t meet with him and some key Nevada business leaders, when Obama is in Las Vegas for a fundraiser, to discuss hardships faced by the state’s tourism industry. Obama is scheduled to be in Las Vegas on May 26 for a fundraiser for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. Gibbons said he was disappointed that Obama isn’t making an effort to “repair the damage” done by his comment in February that corporations shouldn’t use bailout funds for trips to Las Vegas or the Super Bowl or to get corporate jets.
