Do you? If you live in one of the nation's larger cities, he or she might just be in Las Vegas ... courtesy of a $3,000 dollar donation from the Chippendale's???
Okay, the Chippendale's are pretty cheap, but not everyone is.
via AP -- The city contracted the job of raising entertainment funds out to a prominent local public relations firm, R&R Live, which was paid $100,000 for its work soliciting at least $380,000 from casinos, $137,500 from Sprint-Nextel, $88,000 from the construction industry and $3,000 from Chippendale's, among others.
The City of Las Vegas, led by mob-lawyer-turned-mayor Oscar Goodman, is spending $1.8 million just entertaining the public officials, $1.3 million of that comes from corporate donations.
Judging from the website, part of the program seems to deal with poverty. And in between listening to politicos like John McCain and Bill Richardson and the Director of FEMA and the Transportation Secretary, there's "Oscar's Night," a blowout ball with performances from top Las Vegas talent. Sunday was a free, private performance of Cirque du Soleil's latest, a Beatles-themed show called "Love." Monday is pool-side luau at the city's hottest new casino, Red Rock Station, with a surprise guest. All bars are open - sushi and otherwise.
Thank God we have public servants fighting the war on poverty. I imagine if they had to pay for all the freebies themselves ... they'd be part of the problem and not the solution, wouldn't you say?
More than 200 mayors converged on the city Friday for four days of policy discussion and corporate-funded partying, raising ethical questions and prompting some mayors to hold a separate conference without the corporate handouts.
So, where is your Mayor today?
I think the mayor of my city is probably there. I wonder if prostitution in Vegas might be having more business than usual this week?
Posted by: jadensmokes | Wednesday, June 07, 2006 at 03:47 PM