Tuesday, March 18, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.
I cringed when she was elected mayor and have been totally appalled by her self-centered arrogance and the pretext that she cares for and understands the concerns of the poor, the ill and the homeless. Judging from the ill-chosen and failed projects in which she has entwined the city and taxpayers, she should be doubling her salary and giving it back to the city.
In the article which details that the city voted down $1.6 million for Metro Police, she is quoted that the city would not be getting $1.6 million in police protection. Metro is the only entity that keeps the Las Vegas Valley from the terror of total anarchy caused by drug dealers, gangs, smut peddlers, prostitutes and other thugs and unsavory types. Anyone with any common sense knows that criminals do not respect jurisdictional boundaries and, when law and order are maintained in one jurisdiction, all of the surrounding areas benefit. That is apparently too complex for the current mayor to fathom.
As for the arrest of the 9-year-old boyo who vandalized a block of newly laid cement, Metro did absolutely right in going to the principal's office so that the child could be removed from that point, and the school was also correct in attempting to contact the mother, who did not give the school a correct number at which she could be contacted. The school even extended the courtesy of removing all of the other children from the playground during the arrest. The mother, who is trying to get as much mileage from the media as she can, has no other claim to fame than that she did not teach her child the difference of right from wrong.
Evie Kinney
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