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Home arrow Other News arrow March 5, 2009 - Las Vegas Sun: Berkley is mad (as hell) and won’t take the Vegas-bashing anymore
March 5, 2009 - Las Vegas Sun: Berkley is mad (as hell) and won’t take the Vegas-bashing anymore PDF Print E-mail
las_vegas_sun.jpgJON RALSTON, LAS VEGAS SUN (3/05/2009)-- And she just said so on the House floor:

Mr. Speaker, I'm mad and I'm not going to take it anymore.

I've had enough of my colleagues bashing my district, my hometown, and the community I love, Las Vegas.

I've sat back as Las Vegas has been maligned, insulted, and lied about for the sole purpose of making political points.

I've been waiting for common sense to prevail. But I'm here to say that this nonsense, the bashing and lies about Las Vegas have got to end and they have got to end now.

It started with Senator McConnell's misguided attack on the stimulus bill by singling out a mob museum in Las Vegas as an earmark in the stimulus package.

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