Caucus a target for Vegas cliches

[ursi]

January 18, 2008 · 5:42 PM

Gordon Absher, vice president of public affairs for MGM Mirage, over the past week repeatedly found himself explaining to journalists from Japan to Washington that, no, casino workers were not going to be caucusing on the casino floor.

The casinos have meeting rooms, he patiently told them.

This was all part of the impromptu role as Las Vegas Valley ambassador he assumed while fielding media requests to talk to casino workers about the caucus from England’s BBC, the Arab world’s Al Jazeera and a host of Japanese TV networks, as well as all of this country’s national networks and cable stations.

“Some of these folks, all they have to go on is stereotypes,” Absher said. “There’s the temptation to take something serious like the caucus and turn it into a series of Las Vegas cliches.”

So what did he do?

“I found myself explaining to them, “Don’t confuse us with the marketing,” Absher said. “We live here. These are people participating in the caucus. We’re concerned about schools and roads and the issues other people care about.”

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[rwheeler31]

1. International reporters will get in.

[RuleOfNah]

2. "going to be caucusing on the casino floor"

The "not" was boring so I left it out of the quote.

What could a more sublime metaphor for the state of the union? Let market forces find truth! Who could possibly resist 1000000 to 1 on Thompson, or 3 to 1 on Cheney?