Our favorite politician, Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman, has struck again. While campaigning for re-election recently, Goodman appeared at a Vegas community college — not to canvas for votes, but to teach a class. The title: “How To Make A Martini With The Mayor.”
Hizzoner is no stranger to the subject. “If I could finish all the gin I have in my home,” Goodman, 67, told the International Herald Tribune, “I would live to be about 3,000 years old.” The bobble-head doll his campaign distributed last year (pictured above) featured him at a podium with a cocktail in his hand, while in 2002 the manufacturers of Bombay Sapphire gin paid Goodman $100,000 to endorse their product.
Apparently he took his endorsement duties seriously, because in 2005 The Los Angeles Times filed this report: “The mayor of Las Vegas made no apologies after being criticized for extolling the pleasures of gin to a class of fourth-graders. Mayor Oscar Goodman said he was just being himself when he told elementary school students that drinking was one of his hobbies and that the one thing he would want if stranded on an island was a bottle of gin. ‘I answered the question honestly and truthfully,’ Goodman told reporters. ‘I’m not going to lie to children. I’m not going to say I would take a teddy bear or something like that.’”
We are happy to report that this year Goodman won his third term with 83% of the vote. What’s next for the mayor? As he told his college class, “I do think this country needs a president who drinks.”