Now I’m sure I speak for all Nor’Townies when I say that the entrance of the Mayor Pro Tempore’s son into the race for city council Ward 2 was just what the elections needed to spotlight the incestuous and inbred nature of North Las Vegas politics. Why, it’s just the sort of thing that makes this place feel like home–if your home is particularly dysfunctional.
One can’t help but recall that part of the reason us’n real Americans fought the American Revolution was to get rid of that idea that just because Dad was the boss of something, his kid gets to be boss, too. ‘Course, Americans do get tempted by family dynasties once and again. Why, the Kennedy’s got us all excited, but you’d think that Bush succession would make folks think twice about that divine right of political juiced kids.
Nevadans in particularly have mixed feelings about political dynasties. We voted against Reid, Jr. for governor but kept dad Harry in the Senate. We don’t seem to mind Millers, though. After Bob Miller was governor, we voted his kid into the Secretary of State slot–and there are whispers of a Senate run for the boy.
Here in Nor’Town, however, we insist on taking things to their most ridiculous extremes. Today I noticed that the Robinson II campaign has decided to use the very same design on campaign signs for the Ward 2 run as Robinson the First used, like those for the 2009 mayoral campaign and for Dad’s council run in 2007.
Indeed, one can only wonder: did dad dig up some old signs for the campaign? (If so, I’m guessing that counts as an in-kind contribution to the campaign and needs to be noted in the reports.) Given there really isn’t that much money in Robinson the Second’s campaign kitty, about $60 K according to the last report, one wonders if they were pulled out of an old garage. Kinda like the one that guy Wegner must have who keeps running against Shelley Berkley.
Frankly, why anyone would want to borrow anything from such a disastrous campaign as the 2009 mayoral defies logic. Robinson the First was handed his head on a platter after a grotesquely brutal campaign in which Shari Buck pounded him over an ancient FBI investigation into one of his previous campaigns.
Not to mention that the red and yellow color scheme is amateurish and ugly, no doubt designed to use bright primary colors to attract the childlike and slightly slow Nor’Townie voter.
What the wholesale borrowing of Dad’s campaign scheme really seems to point to is that the kid wants dullard Ward 2 voters to think they are voting for the elder Billy when they are voting for Billy the Kid. It’s an infantile campaign strategy based on a lie.
Just the sort of thing that’ll work in Nor’Town.
AMEN!