Harry Reid Wants A Mafia Museum - You Pay For It

[red states rule]

Another example of Dems spending our tax money on vital services

Any comments?


Stimulus Money for a Mob Museum. Got a Problem?

LAS VEGAS — After taking a hail of bipartisan bullets in recent days over the suggestion that a federal stimulus package should help pay for a proposed $50 million museum here on the history of organized crime, the project’s godfathers are returning fire, complaining that Washington pols are scapegoating the museum and the city.

The planned Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, a k a “the Mob Museum” on its own Web site, is to include interactive exhibits where visitors can snap their mug shots, stand in police lineups and wiretap one another. Such a center, Mayor Oscar B. Goodman said in an interview Thursday, is “absolutely falling within the four corners of what President-elect Obama is trying to achieve.”

“This is a project where all the plans are in place and we can start it within 30 days,” said Mr. Goodman, a former criminal defense lawyer who represented several Mafia figures in the 1970s and 1980s.

Citing studies showing that 250,000 tourists a year would visit the attraction and noting that tourism is to Las Vegas what car sales are (or were) to Detroit, the mayor continued: “I don’t know why Mitch McConnell would take on this project. It’s a great project.”

Senator Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican and the minority leader, attacked the museum this week as a kind of localized earmark project that does not belong in legislation Congress passes to jumpstart the flailing economy.

Jon Summers, a spokesman for Senator Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat and the majority leader, said Mr. McConnell’s statements were “moot because Senator Reid has been clear that there will be no earmarks” in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, as President-elect Barack Obama calls it. Instead, Mr. Summers said, the money is likely to go to federal agencies for disbursement based on criteria not yet decided.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/us/10mob.html?ref=us

[stephanie]

Reid is a front man for organized crime..as is the Democrat party.

this is who is running our government, aren't we lucky..

[red states rule]

Reid is a front man for organized crime..as is the Democrat party.

this is who is running our government, aren't we lucky..

I am waiting for libs to blame Pres Bush and the Republican minority for this one

[crin63]

WOW! A place to honor my family and ancestors. What a colossal waste of money.

[red states rule]

WOW! A place to honor my family and ancestors. What a colossal waste of money.

It seems the liberals and their allies in the media forget Dems have controlled the spending for the last 2 years

Libs blamed the deficits on tax cuts and the war in Iraq

I found this and it shows how the Reid/Pelosi Congress have been pising thriugh our tax money - they have the gall to demand we give them more of our money


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Congress and the media kept telling us a slowdown was coming. Logically then, it should have reined in spending — and yes, George Bush should have brandished the veto pen more often. But the exact opposite has happened.

Blame it on the surge in Iraq? Hardly. Yes, total military spending increased from $528 billion to $595 billion, but that $67 billion increase is barely a quarter of the total spending increase of $249 billion — and at least the surge accomplished something.

Here are some of the departments that enjoyed double-digit spending increases: Department of Justice (13.6%), Department of Labor (24.2%), State Department (27.3%), Veterans Affairs (16.4%), Army Corps of Engineers (29.6%), Office of Personnel Management (10.2%), and NASA (12.4%). It appears that many of these agencies saw the POR triumvirate coming and decided it was time, literally, to party again like it was 1999.

Pelosi, Obama, and Reid all promise even more spending. The GOP spend-o-meter on Obama alone has documented nearly $1.3 trillion in new spending promises — generally spread over roughly four years — and the list of seemingly endless bailouts grows.



http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/por-pel...-bush-years/2/