Mayor denies endorsement in county race

Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2004 | 11:04 a.m.

Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman said today that despite what embattled County Commissioner Mary Kincaid-Chauncey's campaign ads say, he is not endorsing her or any other candidate in the District B race.

"I absolutely am not endorsing Mary Kincaid," Goodman said in a prepared statement. "I was specific in that I was not endorsing any of the candidates."

In the Democratic primary, Kincaid-Chauncey is squaring off against Assemblywoman Vonne Chowning, D-North Las Vegas; Assemblyman Tom Collins, D-North Las Vegas; and John Bonaventura, a one-term assemblyman who served in the 1993 Legislature. The winner will face Republican North Las Vegas Councilwoman Shari Buck in the November general election.

Goodman said that he was "happy to be supportive of Tom Collins, Shari Buck, Vonne Chowning and Mary Kincaid, as far as having an excellent relationship with them while working on government affairs."

Kincaid-Chauncey is running for re-election as she prepares for a pending trial for alleged public corruption stemming from federal raids of strip clubs in a two-state bribery probe.

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