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PAGE 2 PAGE 5 PAGE 6 Volume 15, Issue 22 August 7-13, 2013 Ward 5 Chamber of Commerce Member Massive Board Resignation CouldBeaPoliticalStrategy By Rolando Larraz radio shows on which the Sheriff that the Sheriff is “out of town,” “in cal television stations have been newspaper and local television sta- Las Vegas Tribune has routinely appeared on a Washington, DC,” or “tied up in very instrumental in helping Sher- tions are ignoring that to report on It is a well known secret and fact monthly schedule, with the excuse police work,” when in reality iff Doug Gillespie in his endeavor the weather and the traffic in Las that keeping the Las Vegas Metro- Gillespie has not done any “police by giving great coverage to the res- Vegas. politan Police Department work” for at least the last fifteen ignation of less than one half of the The media is missing the fact, administration’s business — and its years — or as long as he has been board members. or just ignoring it, that Detective officers’ actions — as transparent assigned to various police admin- The whole issue is about a po- Martines is not a disgruntled em- as possible is nothing but a joke that istrative departments. lice officer who shot an unarmed ployee speaking out after being ter- has become an insult to the intelli- Assistant Sheriff Ted Moody — man in the leg and was not fired minated; he is an active member of gence of anyone in the community. who shared the Chair of the Use of despite the board’s recommenda- the department on sick leave. Many believe that the massive Force Board with the second mem- tion. The Las Vegas Tribune has resignation of members of the Use ber to resign, Robert Martinez — In the meantime, Sheriff learned that during the deposition of Force Board is nothing but a po- was the first one to resign. He tried Gillespie, Las Vegas Metropolitan of correction officer Greg Naglich litical strategy manipulated by the to be identified with the rest of the Police Department and fourteen of — Detective Martines’s former su- Sheriff and his political advisers. Board members but managed to the most important members of his pervisor — Sergeant Tom Melton For a long time, the name of keep his name out of the press until administration are battling a federal AKA James Melton, had been ex- Assistant Sheriff Ted Moody has he announced his candidacy to the lawsuit filed by Detective Gordon posed as a racist and a discrimina- been circulated as the “chosen one” position his friend, Gillespie, holds Martines, an active member of the tory supervisor in the department; to replace Sheriff Doug Gillespie; presently and is hopefully saving police department and a 32-year one who has used the “N” word he and Joe Lombardo have been for him. veteran detective with the robbery while referring to black suspects or appearing for a while on the same Assistant Sheriff Ted Moody The daily newspaper and the lo- and homicide section, and the daily (See Resignations, Page 5) My Point WashingtonPostSoldToBezos: of View By Rolando Larraz End Of Old Media Or New Hope? Several days ago I received an email from a woman who told me Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos says he’s not out to change Washington Post values or micromanage that she was upset with me because I told someone who wrote in de- operations. He has a record of investing for the long term and presiding over profitable enterprises. fending former Hearing Master By Jennifer Skalka Tulumello Patricia Doninger that she sounded Christian Science Monitor like a Democrat. (See related story Page 10) This woman was very upset with WASHINGTON — There was me for saying to someone that she shock and sadness in Washington probably doesn’t know that she Monday afternoon as headlines sounds like a Democrat, but then marked: “An era to end as Post is she did the same thing when she sold.” called the Las Vegas Tribune a “Re- Word that, after 80 years, the publican rag.” Graham family would part with the I don’t remember if I wrote the crown jewel of its empire — the article or someone else did, but it storied but struggling Washington doesn’t matter, because as I always Post — to the tune of $250 million say, I am the captain of the ship and rocked the city. The news that the the buck stops with me; I am re- sponsible for whatever appears in buyer is Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, this publication. who despite his documented genius What really amazes me is that as an Internet commerce entrepre- according to this woman I wrote the neur has no experience in traditional accusation that the writer was a print journalism, sent politicos and Democrat, but she did not attack scribes into analysis overdrive. me, she attacked the newspaper by Does this transition provide a calling it a “Republican rag.” glaring sign of the nearing end for I normally do not respond to print, the demise of which has been crybabies, so I don’t know what got heralded for at least a decade as into me — but I responded to that other city papers have been sold by A visitor views the front page of The Washington Post, displayed outside the Newseum in Washington on lady with an email of my own, (See Washington Post, Page 6) Tuesday, a day after Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million. maybe because she wrote me an email first and nowadays emails are like telephone calls and I believe in returning all my telephone calls. Las Vegas Attorney “Bitch-Slapped” by PI After all, I am not like most Las By Natasha Minsky eral unethical attacks upon him, Protective Order for each against Vegas attorneys in that it must be Las Vegas Tribune such as posting and distributing the other and warned both attorneys against my principals or religion to return any telephone calls. Scott Holper, a Las Vegas attor- confidential documents throughout to behave and control themselves Most people in Las Vegas carry ney who has been in and out of the Regional Justice Center and while in the Regional Justice Cen- two cell phones, but they all are too court in the last few months with making defamatory statements ter if they run into each other in the busy to answer the phone and way his own personal problems and ar- against him. same courtroom while conducting too busy and too lazy to return tele- guments with several different at- But Coburn produced as evi- business. phone calls unless they want or torneys and a former landlord, was dence two invoices from a tire com- One of Coburn’s employees told need something from the caller — slapped in the face last week while pany showing that he had to pur- the Las Vegas Tribune that now they like during an election. walking between his office on chase new tires for his vehicle be- have to carry a copy of the TPO in Anyway, I did return this Bridger Street and the Regional cause Holper allegedly slashed his case they run into Holper and a con- woman’s email and was glad to Justice Center on Lewis and 3rd tire on two different occasions. frontation arises. point out to her that this “Republi- Street. Attorney Scott Holper Coburn also told Judge Conrad The female employee has a sepa- can rag” is party blind; this “Repub- Local private investigator Rob- open hand,” a witness to the inci- Hafen that Holper told him that he rate case against Holper in a differ- lican rag” did not endorse Gover- ert Lawson tried to serve Attorney dent told the Las Vegas Tribune. was going to put a bullet in his head, ent jurisdiction. nor Brian Sandoval just because he Holper with yet another complaint Afew weeks ago,Attorney Mark and that on May 13 of this year he Coburn told the Las Vegas Tri- has an Hispanic name. from another attorney when the Coburn of the Las Vegas Ticket At- saw three guys in front of his house bune that he fears for his life be- Is it surprise enough that we confrontation took place. torney, defended himself in a law- and one of the guys asked him, in a cause Holper is known around town would like to see Rory Reid being Lawson was confronted by suit filed against him by Scott threatening tone, if he was familiar for his explosive temper. the Nevada Governor, since Reid Holper and lost his temper and Holper. with Holper. Another attorney, William talks like a Democrat, acts like a “bitch-slapped the attorney with an Holper accused Coburn of sev- Judge Hafen issued a Temporary (See Slap, Page 5) Democrat and is a Democrat. Governor Sandoval makes people believe that he is a Republi- ANALYSIS can, but I personally don’t believe he is Republican; in my personal Observations of the Best and the Worst opinion, Sandoval is a RINO. By Jerry Schafer the casinos. competition; prior to more gaming The twenty-first century has For those who know how I feel about the third most powerful man Nevada News Service In the past — prior to the advent taking place throughout the USA in found Las Vegas hotels adding in the entire country, it may surprise Las Vegas hotel-casino proper- of corporate mentality becoming Indian casino operations; prior to nightclubs, bowling alleys, movie you to know we (the Las Vegas Tri- ties no longer rely on gaming rev- the way of doing business in a Las more foreign gaming attractions; theaters and other attractions to bune) endorsed Rory Reid.