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Mob museum sends wrong message to kids

John Tominsky, Las Vegas

Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008 | 2 a.m.

Regarding the Las Vegas Sun’s Thursday story “Museum plans arresting experience”:

I think Oscar Goodman is the best mayor Las Vegas has ever had. I agree with almost everything he’s done for this city. But on this issue of developing a mob museum, he is totally wrong.

The millions of dollars needed for the project could be better spent on the needs of schoolchildren, for supplies such as athletic equipment, music materials and, most of all, books. Expand a child’s mind instead of facilitating a desire to see what a bunch of losers have done with their lives.

To me, criminals are nothing but a bunch of lazy bums who never want to do an honest day’s work. To glamorize these people in any way is sick. The mayor made his living defending these people. We the taxpayers have to shell out millions of dollars to cater to this criminal element that is getting bigger by the day.

Let’s build a museum showing what hardworking citizens of Vegas have done to better their lives and the lives of their families, and Las Vegas in general. This may not be an exciting museum but it might stimulate young people to be the best they can be, instead of the worst they could wind up being, if they continue idolizing the criminal scum of this country.

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