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Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006 | 8:07 a.m.
The annual partisan rites known as Lincoln Day dinners will soon begin around Nevada. Here in Clark County, the locals have landed a high-profile guest in Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee. The dinner, of course, is at The Venetian, the place run by Gondolier Numero Uno and where only GOP functions are allowed. The best theater during these events is to watch the local pols try to suck up to a national figure like Mehlman and to watch to see if Mehlman mangles any local names. Who can forget ex-Vice President Dan Quayle referring a congressional hopeful Lucille Lusk as "Lucille Luak?" Someone must have had bad handwriting ...
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