Obama Speaks at Nellis Air Force Base May 27

Update 5-27: See Obama's speech at Nellis here. 

Following an evening of fundraising in Las Vegas (see speech here) for Sen. Harry Reid, who's afraid of a few terrorists locked up in super max prisons, Obama will head out tomorrow to Nellis Air Force Base, where he'll speak at 2:40 p.m eastern or 11:40 a.m. Las Vegas time:

Tonight at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, President Barack Obama will join entertainers Bette Midler and Sheryl Crow onstage for a "tribute concert" to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Obama plans to spend the night at Caesars, sources say, and is scheduled to appear Wednesday morning at Nellis Air Force Base for an event touting the stimulus package. The Nellis event is not open to the public.

It will be Obama's first visit to Nevada since he won the state's five electoral votes in November. LVRJ

Obama was greeted by none other than Harry Reid, Dina Titus and Oscar Goodman, the martini drinking mayor of Las Vegas and homeless person hater. Goodman, a former mob attorney, has also been picking beefs with Obama and wants to build a Mob Museum with the stimulus money.
Obama touches down in Las Vegas.

Obama Turns Down Meeting With Nevada Gov. Gibbons

It's a good thing too. Obama wouldn't want to get cooties or something worse.
If you have any questions as to how lame Gov. Jim Gibbons is, check out this blog that keeps tabs on Nevada politics or this one.
Gibbons is going through a divorce and is accused of pushing women. He's allegedly got bunches of problems and isn't a very good governor either. He's promised to veto a domestic partnership bill in the works. His antics are regular fodder for local columnists.
Since Obama turned him down for a meeting (Obama will be fundraising for Harry Reid May 26), Gibbons is pouting:

Carson City - The Office of Governor Jim Gibbons was notified today that President Barack Obama has refused to meet with the Governor and key business leaders from Nevada. Governor Gibbons requested the meeting in a letter to President Obama so the President could address statements he made that were critical to Nevada and have caused economic damage to convention business and tourism business in the Silver State. Earlier this year, the President told an audience in Elkhart, Indiana, “You can’t get corporate jets. You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime.” That quote was seen by many as an insult to Las Vegas and as a message to companies across the Nation to stay away from Las Vegas for corporate meetings and conventions.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reports over 400 conventions and business meetings scheduled to take place in Las Vegas recently have cancelled. These cancelled events translate into 111,800 guests in Las Vegas and over 250,000 “room-nights”. The cancelled conventions and meetings have cost the Las Vegas economy over $100-million, not including gaming revenue.

“I am disappointed at the hypocrisy shown by this Administration,” Gibbons said, “President Obama is coming to Las Vegas later this month for a political fundraiser, but he will not help the struggling families in Las Vegas and Nevada who are out of work because of his reckless comments.” Governor Gibbons noted, “President Obama is coming to Las Vegas to raise campaign cash for Senator Harry Reid, apparently our money is good enough for the President, but our tourism, jobs, and economic future are not.” Gibbons added, “This is politics, pure and simple, President Obama stood for change, but all he has done is brought negative economic change to Nevada.”

Governor Gibbons is calling upon Senator Reid to use any influence he might have to ask President Obama to encourage Americans to visit America during their summer vacations this year. “Sometimes Washington politicians forget that the people of Nevada are Americans,” Governor Gibbons said, “This President needs to repair the damage he has done.”