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Bob Beers Didn't Lose Last Week's Election Nevadans welcome GOP defense spending Trump: American review of sage grouse battle delays student’s death a land use plans Republican budget ‘total disgrace’ PAGE 2 PAGE 4 PAGE 7 Volume 19, Issue 17 June 21-27, 2017 lasvegastribune.com Bob Beers didn’t lose last week’s election By Rolando Larraz lieved at least one inept “spokes- gest political mistake of this elec- Lisa Mayo DeRiso is the official Las Vegas Tribune person” that somehow had him tion, but it is now just too late. campaign manager for Eighth Dis- The election result shows City wrapped around her little finger. Of course there is also the trict Court Judge William (Bill) Councilman Bob Beers losing last “Councilman Bob Beers is with- shadow of Beers’ “spokesperson,” Kephart, and there is the question week’s city of Las Vegas elections, out a doubt one of the most honest, Lisa Mayo DeRiso, who has the that he may be protecting her from but in reality it was the voters who hardworking and dedicated elected stigma of being a fugitive of the law being arrested for that outstanding lost that election. officials of our times; he votes his with an arrest warrant hanging over arrest warrant. Councilman Beers is probably conscience, not to please a couple her head for failing to appear in There is also the possibility that the most qualified, the most dedi- of spoiled rich folk who believe that court, for failing to make good on another of her indirect clients, City cated elected official on that city with their money and name recog- more than $3,000 she and her hus- Council Stavros Anthony, may be council board, but perhaps he was nition, they can buy anyone,” wrote band wrote in bad checks that could protecting her; Anthony, who was made to believe by some of his team the Las Vegas Tribune just ten days also be treated as defrauding an inn- endorsed and supported by the Las that he was not in real need of cam- before the election. keeper because some of those Vegas Tribune, is a retired Las Ve- paigning and he relaxed and be- Today, ten days after the election checks were written to landlords; gas Metropolitan Police Depart- we warn the constituents of Ward 2 but she seems to have been pro- ment Captain after serving in the not to come out like crying babies, tected by some judicial and politi- department for twenty-nine years, My Point BOB BEERS after they realize they made the big- cal names in our community. (See Bob Beers, Page 5) of View By Rolando Larraz Mike Pence: ‘Cuba Si, Castro No’ My narrow mentality when it comes to Las Vegas and its sur- By Alexandra Cohen Cuban dictator and then President in the official thought pattern that roundings has taken me to lose the Las Vegas Tribune Barack Obama, the talk between the President Obama set in motion last best doctor I ever had in a very long Last Friday, June 16, 2017, will two heads of government culmi- year. time. pass in history as one of the most nated in President Obama giving in On July 20th, 2015 it became When I tell people that to me Las important days for the Cuban to the socialist government of Cuba official; Embassies of Cuba and the Vegas is from Tropicana Avenue to people in and out of the United and getting nothing in return. United States were open in the City Lake Mead Boulevard and from States when President Donald After more than a half-century of Habana and Washington, D.C. Boulder Highway to Jones Blvd., Trump once again makes good on of Cold War estrangement, the “It is a sad day in the nation people laugh, thinking that I am just one of his campaign promises. United States reopened its six-story when a communist flag bearing the joking; but then they realize that I Before President Trump lined embassy in Havana on Monday, and blood of thousands of Cuban patri- am serious... very serious. out his plan, Vice President Mike Cuba raised a flag outside its own ots is flying in the air at the Capital When I say that I have never vis- Pence finished his speech with an stately embassy in Washington. of this country, offending and be- ited Mt. Charleston or Lake Mead, emotional Cuba Si, Castro No mak- What culminated after months of traying the thousands of Cubans liv- they can’t believe that after sixty ing many Cubans happy with that negotiations to overcome decades ing in the United States — some of years in Las Vegas I have never statement. of enmity was the resumption of them sitting in the United States been in the two most popular places Through the intervention of So- diplomatic relations between the pink Congress, accepting the deci- in our city; but it is true. cialist Pope Francis, who wrote to MIKE PENCE two nations — a historic milestone (See Cuba, Page 3) Now my favorite doctor, Michael Finkelstein, has moved to somewhere in the middle of no- Supreme Court upholds principle that feds where, in the area of Tenaya and Cheyenne and I don’t know how to drive all the way there, so I am may not limit free speech in trademark case forced to find another doctor who By Thomas Mitchell or bring them into contempt, or dis- could never replace my favorite The Supreme Court has struck a repute...” Doctor Finklestein. blow for free speech in a case that According to the opinion by Jus- Why people are so infatuated might on its face seem rather petty, tice Samuel Alito, the band wanted with Summerlin or Green Valley is but maintains the principle that gov- to use the ethnic slur as its name to beyond my imagination, I guess ernment must butt out of judging “reclaim” the term and drain it of that is one of the reasons I like my what is a permissible level of of- its denigrating force. friend, former Mayor Oscar fensiveness. But the government argued that Goodman and his wife Carolyn, the The case involved the Patent and issuing a trademark was tantamount current mayor, because they believe Trademark Office refusing to grant to the government engaging in dis- in Las Vegas; they like downtown a trademark to an Asian-American paraging speech, citing a previous and they are working hard on mak- rock band that wanted to call them- case in which the court held that the ing Las Vegas a city again. selves “The Slants.” The agency state of Texas was not required to Even if the traffic and the light cited a section of the law that de- issue car license plates commemo- system is not what it used to be, I nies trademarks for names that are rating Confederate Veterans. can be home in fifteen minutes “immoral, deceptive, or scandalous Alito held that license plates are when I leave my downtown office. matter; or matter which may dispar- government speech but a trademark Why would I want to fight traffic age or falsely suggest a connection is not. He wrote that the federal law by driving one hour to get home to with persons, living or dead, insti- did not create trademarks but Summerlin or Green Valley? tutions, beliefs, or national symbols, The Slants (See Free Speech, Page 6) I may not be in the best of health nowadays to do all the walking I used to do a few years back, but I used to love walking from my of- Where is the State Bar when you need them? fice to the courthouse or city hall By Rolando Larraz claim is not always fair or true. senting clients. instead of watching the city coun- Las Vegas Tribune Such is the case with local at- As far back as 2013 this contro- cil meeting on my computers as I First of a series torney Scott Holper, who for years versial attorney has been in and out do now; walking to the county The popular saying we all know has been in controversy after con- of court; [as reported at the time] building is a little too much for me, is, Where is a police officer when troversy, from fighting with and in the last few months he’s had his but one of these days I am going to you need one? So we could also threatening his landlords, to attack- own personal problems and argu- try to walk over there to see if I get apply that concept to our Nevada ing fellow attorneys, losing control ments with several different attor- there alive or half-dead. State Bar when one needs them, and in the courtrooms, to abusing his neys and a former landlord, and was I realize that I have always been in this series the Las Vegas Tribune staff and even threatening clients. slapped in the face last week while a little different than most people will try to make sense and under- Court records show that Holper walking between his office on are but I am happy to be in Las Ve- stand the actions and the behavior has been arrested several times in Bridger Street and the Regional gas and when I say Las Vegas I of the State Bar of Nevada. the neighboring city of Henderson Justice Center on Lewis and 3rd don’t mean Summerlin or Green The state bar regulates attorneys — a city 23 miles from Las Vegas Street. Valley. in Nevada and provides education — for Domestic Battery, Coercion- In August of the year 2013, Las I laugh when I ask someone if and development programs for the Force, Burglary and other charges, Vegas Tribune reported that local they live in Henderson and they legal profession and the public, but and he is still practicing law, private investigator Robert Lawson look insulted, responding “Nooo! I sometimes it appears that their appearing before judges and repre- (See Holper, Page 4) live in Green Valley”; or when I ask SCOTT HOLPER if they live in Las Vegas, and their FROM THE DESK OF GORDON MARTINES response always amazes me: “No, we live in Summerlin”; and I al- ways enjoy seeing their faces when Sooooo..
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