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With this sordid story came the first news of his interest in running for President. I don't know which surprised me more? He's totally unqualified to be a good philanderer, let alone a good President! It will take a better Republican candidate to unseat the Messiah.

The "Train to Nowhere" that's being rushed by the LVCVA is far inferior to the maglev originally proposed in 1990. I was privileged to ride on the German prototype, and there's no similarity between safely traveling at 300 MPH from LV to Anaheim on an elevated guidway compared to the LVCVA's proposed 150 MPH steel wheel behemoth rolling down conventional ground level tracks to the middle of nowhere. The current rush job is a ploy to help re-elect Harry Reid who will take full credit. This is another LV Monorail in the making.

I served on the Regional Transportation Commission when F Street was part of a planned north - south frontage road from Henderson to North LV. In the meantime, several Class A office buildings opened on the south side of the I-95 bridge, and caucasion transients from rescue missions on the other side of the bridge began panhandling near those buildings. The tenants and owners of the buildings asked the city to shut down the transient's access. I believe the police should have handled the problem instead of shutting off a perfectly good street and killing a thoroughfare that has been on the planning table for years. The property owners along F Street have every right to complain.

After knowing and respecting attorney Robert Kossack for many years, I believe he would not be pursuing this case unless it had great merit. Nothing he accuses Sig Rogich of doing surprises me -- the blacklisting; failure of the DA to respond; and where are those video tapes? Kossack has a viable conspiracy case here, and the other side realizes that fact and is using every political trick in Rogich's book to make it go away.

Carolyn Edwards is correct. The City has for years been collecting what once was the portion of downtown property tax designated for schools, and stashing it in a fund that Goodman now wants to tap for his Mob Museum and unneeded new City Hall. I understand the fund now contains over $80 million dollars! A new City Hall is ridiculous and will not be needed when Metro vacates the present City Hall. Private enterprise should build the Mob Museum, and the redevelopment and tourism improvement district money should be transferred to where it rightfully belongs, schools. If the present city hall is abandoned for a new one with Goodman's name on the cornerstone, it will cause further blight.

Former LV Councilman Steve Miller

One of Mayor Oscar Goodman's business partners in this deal was Tony Tegano, the father in law of Black Book member and former Goodman Law Firm client Joey Cusumano.

It was well known that Tegano let ex-LV councilman Mike McDonald live rent free for over a year in his million dollar Canyon Gate villa. Goodman knew this while McDonald sat next to him on the council dais making decisions that benefited Goodman and Tegano's cronies including Cusumano's best friend and Goodman's former law client Rick Rizzolo.

Based on the fact that the Apex deal was also put together by Al Levy whose 1990 "Good Ol Boys Land Deal" cost a former mayor and city manager their jobs, and made 53 days of front page news, s supposedly shrewd attorney like Goodman should have known that another Levy land deal was ripping off senior citizens and had mob ties, but he obviously cared only about making $5 million in profits, and did not stop his name and mayoral title from being used to attract -- then defraud -- elderly investors.

Former LV Councilman Steve Miller

During former mob lawyer Oscar Goodman's third term as Mayor of Las Vegas, two possible downtown projects drew attention; his museum devoted to the legends of many of his former mob clients, and a Veteran's Memorial Park dedicated to the memory of our fallen local war heroes.

His mob museum is now projected to cost taxpayers about $60 million.

Reopening the closed Huntridge Circle Park and erecting a section with a monument devoted to veterans is estimated to cost between $800,000 and one million dollars.

Goodman has ignored hundreds of phone calls from supporters of the Veteran's Memorial Park, and is instead concentrating all his energy on his tribute to his mob pals. His excuse? "I help the veterans put on a parade each year."

Goodman neglects to say that in trade for his "help," he must be the parade's Grand Marshal.

In 2003, America's oldest war veteran, Mr. Willy Brown, 107, was in Las Vegas visiting his family. Instead of placing Mr. Brown at the head of the parade, or naming him Grand Marshal, Mr. Brown was placed near the end of the parade, while Goodman rode far ahead in the Grand Marshal's convertible.

Now with this latest tantrum about his pet project being the blunt of national jokes and a blatant example of stimulus pork, he fires back.

In the meantime, local veterans are livid that a museum to honor criminals takes precedence over a simple memorial that all sophisticated cities proudly have.

Mayor Goodman is insane. He has - again - made our city the national laughing stock, this time by trying to honor himself and his mob clients with a tax funded monument to greed and corruption. In the meantime, Goodman cannot find one cent to invest in building a memorial to our country's fallen veterans at Circle Park on Maryland Pkwy.

Former LV Councilman Steve Miller

Tom will be greatly missed. He was one of our town's last true watchdogs. My condolences to his family and friends.