Letter: Mayor’s warning threat to tourism

Thursday, Jan. 13, 2000 | 9:36 a.m.

Mayor Goodman's recently proposed resolution concerning the transportation of radioactive cargo is a joke and it poses a danger for our tourist-based economy.

As a lawyer, the mayor should be fully aware that his proposed ordinance is a violation of interstate commerce and is meaningless. The mayor clearly has his politician hat on and is doing a classic Nevada politician nuclear waste grandstanding act. The problem is that the mayor and his mouth are the real danger to our community.

The leadership of Nevada is fully aware that high-level waste doesn't need to and won't travel through Southern Nevada. They also know that it is far less dangerous to the public than other cargo that routinely travels through the valley.

The real risk is that the tourists will be scared away by all the negative publicity that Mayor Goodman is creating.

How quickly the mayor has forgotten how the publicity concerning the threat of terrorism impacted the "big" New Year's celebration in Las Vegas.

MOSES DOMINGO

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