A “withering gaze” on the payday loan industry?
July 8, 2008 | Uncategorized | Comments (1)The hairs are standing up on the backs of our necks.
The withering gazer is Nevada Democratic Assemblywoman Barbara Buckley. This Las Vegas Sun story is about her potential to become governor:
For Buckley, it’s been a swift rise. She had moved here from Philadelphia and cleaned hotel rooms at the old MGM, worked through UNLV and made Law Review at the University of Arizona law school.
After arriving in the Assembly, she rose to majority leader quickly. She forged relationships with key liberal interest groups and the gaming industry and has held an iron grip on a 27-15 majority. Her Democratic colleagues appreciate that she delegates responsibility and shares credit.
In the past few months, as the state has fallen deeper into a financial mess, an economic malaise and a worsening set of health, education and welfare dilemmas, she’s taken an increasingly public role as an opponent of Gov. Jim Gibbons.
The whispers of a 2010 run for governor are now in the open, with the state’s political insiders chattering after a potential Democratic rival, Clark County Commission Chairman Rory Reid, commissioned a poll that showed him beating Buckley and Gibbons.
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Withering Gaze, huh…. and this is coming from a woman who “forged relationship with … the gaming industry?”
Um… may I say, respectfully, WTF?