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Rally Spreads Reopen the Community Message: 'Biggest Protest Caravan in Vegas Strip History'

• By C. Douglas Golden

All right then, Wayne Allyn Root says. He set out to organize a protest where everyone stayed in their car — and he said it would be the "biggest caravan in Vegas strip history."

Root, a Las Vegas-based conservative radio host, was the grand marshal of the event — "Open Nevada, Unleash Prosperity, Save America," according to the U.K. Daily Mail — which took place on Friday.

Root previously said his "WAR Army" — his nickname for his listeners — would "dominate the Vegas Strip for miles" to demand Nevada Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak reopen the state's economy.

Sisolak is already under some pressure after Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, an independent, demanded that Sisolak reopen the state for business.

"This shutdown has become one of total insanity, in my opinion," Goodman said last week, according to Newsweek, "for there is no backup of data as to why we are shutdown from the start, no plan in place how to move through the shutdown or how even to come out of it."

"For heaven's sake," she added, "being closed is killing us already and killing Las Vegas, our industry, our convention and tourism business that we have all worked so hard to build. The longer we wait to do this, the more impossible it will become to recover."


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