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Letter: Awarding airport contract to Broadbent’s daughter is nepotism

Thursday, Oct. 16, 1997 | 11:47 a.m.

The acronym DBE stands for "disadvantaged business enterprise," and it is a flagrant misinterpretation by McCarran officials, smacking of misfeasance, to consider Kathleen Morris as disadvantaged. The fact that she is a woman-owned business does not qualify her as being disadvantaged.

By no stretch of the DBE-certification process does the daughter of Bob Broadbent, one of the most powerful, influential men in Las Vegas and formerly the airport director, and the business partner of Sig Rogich, one of the most powerful men in Nevada and U.S. Republican politics, qualify as disadvantaged.

Permitting Kathleen Morris' and Sig Rogich's "woman-owned business" to be awarded any contract identified to support DBEs is an insult to all of the truly socially and economically disadvantaged businesses in the Las Vegas area that don't have daddies and family friends to pave the way past the strict government policies to set them up for lucrative state and county contracts. The words nepotism and deceit come to mind.

Gretchen L. Wilson

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