Why Does PennyLas Vegas, NV Volume 3 Number Press 46 AUGUST 10, 2006 Bill Young Hate This Guy? See Analysis Page 3 See Editorial Page 6 THE PENNY PRESS, AUGUST 10, 2006 PAGE 2 www.pennypresslv.com The Penny Press is published weekly by Penny Credits: 5010 Productions, Inc. All Contents © Penny Press 2006 Publisher and Editor: Contributing Editors: Letters to the Editor are encouraged. They should be sent to our offices at 418 1/2 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Press Fred Weinberg Diane Grassi Al Thomas Vegas 89101. They can also be emailed to: Logotype Circulation: Doug French Bill Here [email protected] No unsigned or unverifiable let- Pointedlymad Charlotte Weinberg Brent Jordan Pat Choate ters will be printed. licensed from: Rich Gast Joyce Meyer Bob Jennings 702-740-5588 Fax: 702-920-8215 Penny Press LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 16 PAGES VOLUME 3 NUMBER 46 AUGUST 10, 2006 Airola Tells Of His Plans For Metro By DAVID HIMMEL jet to assist. The only answer Airola receives is, become the next sheriff of Clark Libertywatch Magazine Staff Writer Donating a private aircraft in “Not gonna happen.” So Airola calls County. “It is a misuse of their dire circumstances is not uncom- a representative at the Las Vegas authority, a misuse of the county’s A woman loses her son. He was mon for Airola. “Non-profit organi- Metro Police Department. assets. If I want to donate a jet to abducted. kidnapped. stolen. zations call for our help very often,” “I was just told by Nevada Child someone to save them trouble, I For several days, she has no idea Airola says. “We are committed to Seekers that they have to leave the should be able to do it.” of his location. Imagine her despair. helping anyone we can. it’s the right airport,” Airola said to the depart- Sure, why would Metro care? then imagine her relief when Nevada thing to do.” ment. Because Undersheriff Doug Gillespie Child Seekers tells her that they The next day, the mother and a As it turned out, the Metro admin- is running against Airola? If so, well, representative from Nevada Child istration ordered Airola’s plane not that’s just politics. Seekers are on a runway at the North to leave and assist a desperate moth- Las Vegas Airport in Airola’s Lear er from seeing her missing son in Who is Jerry Airola? Political Analysis jet, prepared for take off. As the Washington. Instead, Nevada Child plane is taxiing, the representative Seekers had to find someone else to Put simply, Airola is a business- from Nevada Child Seekers gets a donate a plane, anyone but Airola. man, one who has carried a badge. found her boy - in good health, in call on his cell phone. It’s his boss. Airola suspected some power play- He is the father of eight, expecting protective custody, in Washington Puzzled by the request, the repre- ing and bullying. his ninth child and his first grand- State. sentative tells the pilot the plane The story gets worse. child. He comes from a long family The non-profit organization then must turn around and return to the The Metro Police Department tradition of law enforcers - especial- calls Jerry Airola, President and terminal. The mother panics. Why orchestrated a political interference, ly sheriffs. His grandfather, Claud founder of Silver State Helicopters, can’t they take off? Why can’t they and at a citizen’s expense - a child’s Ballard, worked in the sheriff’s to ask if they can use a plane to Take go to Washington? What happened expense - because its leaders worried department for Calaveras County, this anxious mother to her son 1,200 to her son? Airola’s charity would look good for Calif., for more than 30 years. He hundred miles north. Never one to Airola is now involved. He’s the sheriff-hopeful. was elected to sheriff for two terms. turn down an opportunity to help, asking the representative why they It’s a story that Airola likes to His great-grandfather was also an Airola quickly schedules a Lear 55 can’t fly the woman to Washington. share when discussing his plans to Continued on page4 The Conservative Weekly PAT CHOATE PAGE 5 Voice Of Las Vegas FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6 Penny Wisdom DOUG FRENCH PAGE 7 Inside: BILLHERE PAGE 8 A functioning police state AL THOMAS PAGE 10 needs no police. Why Did Sheriff —William S. Burroughs JOYCE MEYER PAGE 12 Young Go Nuts? PET OF THE WEEK PAGE 15 See Editorial Page 6 THE PENNY PRESS, AUGUST 10, 2006 PAGE 4 Sheriff Jerry? Continued from page 3 elected sheriff and his great-great-grandfather was a U.S. Marshall. Airola has always wanted to follow the same path. His first foray into business was while in high school. He took cutting lawns for candy money to a much larger scale, as he started a landscaping business and even hired three other high schoolers to work for him until he graduated in 1983. Airola left his home, the rancher’s paradise of Calaveras County, and moved to southern California to work for an environmen- tal company. He took advantage of its continuing education and training classes, and within a year he was promoted to the position of National Sales Manager. At one of the fastest growing companies in the nation at the time, Airola was responsible for training and overseeing 12 different managers. At that time, his parents moved to Ventura, where the three of them opened and operated three different companies. Sadly, in 1987, the family took a blow when three of his grandparents died. Airola and his parents decided to sell the businesses so they could go back to tend to the ranch, giving Airola the opportunity to get into law enforcement. Three years later, Airola was a Los Banos police officer. He was a patrol officer also investigating crimes like homicide, child molestation and auto theft. He served as the president of the Los Banos Police Officers Association and as a member of the Morale Committee - a task which Airola intends to implement with Clark County. To lessen the hardships of a budding family, Airola took a second job as a mortgage broker for a national bank. In 1995, he accepted the opportunity to move to Las Vegas and open a water purification company. By this time, he was the father of five and had to provide for his family. It’s no secret, and perhaps it’s unfortunate, that a cop’s salary is not always the best way to provide. He relied on his manage- ment skills to keep food on the table and allow a more comfortable life. Rather than uproot himself, he was sworn in as a reserve deputy sheriff with the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office. (Tuolumne County sits as the northern gateway to Yosemite National Park.) His original plan was to move to Vegas, make a killing in the business world, then get back to his home in Calaveras County and become sheriff. But instead, he fell in love with helicopters. And in 1999, he and three other partners bought their first helicopter, which would become the beginning of the Silver State Helicopter fleet. Two years later, he bought full ownership of the company and purchased a McDonnell Douglas 500 helicopter before working with small county sheriffs’ departments. He con- tracted the choppers to assist in drug busts and any other police activity they may need assistance with. When Airola came to Las Vegas, he was broke. Without much to his name, he was forced to call the credit card companies and ask for extended limits, but they turned him away. What he did have was a good business prospect. He parlayed that into something bigger. Airola’s business of giving back Want A Penny Press In In 2002, Airola thought it best to expand Silver State Helicopters’ abili- ties, so he diversified. From that one bird he bought in 1999, Silver State Helicopters now boasts a fleet of more than 200. The company can handle The Mail? most any situation and often does. In 2003, he flew five helicopters to Utah to look for Elizabeth Smart. $55 per year First Class Mail Since then, he created Sheriff’s Airborne Law Enforcement (S.A.B.L.E.) This program was one of the first responders to the destruction of the South Name__________________ Penny Press when Hurricane Katrina hit exactly one year ago. In 2005, S.A.B.L.E. Address________________ 418 ½ S. Maryland showed that, flying 400 feet above the ground at a speed of 45 mph, it City_____State___ZIP_____ Las Vegas, NV 89101 was able to detect a dirty bomb, lending its hand to the War on Terror and Continued on page 11 THE PENNY PRESS, AUGUST 10, 2006 PAGE 5 Commentary: Pat Choate Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. succeeded so well that Japan’s ongo- In the nine years between 1980 Japan’s Phony The Japanese adroitly used these ing economic expansion was almost and 1989, however, the U.S. moved diversions to mount one of mod- totally ignored by U.S. policymak- from being the world’s largest credi- “Crisis” ern history’s most successful propa- ers, as well as the American media, tor to its largest debtor, drawing ganda campaigns, convincing much for almost a decade and a half. down its entire its surplus and going In the 1980s, Japanese business of the world that Japan had fallen Data from the Bank of Japan’s an additional $259 billion into debt practices came under intense scru- into an economic “crisis.” Using annual reports tell the true story.