Las Vegas, NV - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Las Vegas, NV Index / Locations Transcripts Martin Nesbitt ...to get attention. We were out in [Las] Vegas , and he had mentioned something to m... David Axelrod ...Employees International Union] in [Las] Vegas . Came back and said, “She looked lik... Astrid Silva ...their lives. She cofounded Dream Big Vegas , a clearinghouse and advocacy cente... ...They all knew each other because it's Vegas , and they all knew each other. Thi... ...Why did you decide to cofound Dream Big Vegas ? What were your goals? What did yo... ...One of the days that he flew out to Vegas for Senator Reid, him and I actuall... ...2011, that led to us starting Dream Big Vegas , because people were asking us so man... ...of the candidates at that time, here in Vegas , started being people who we had bee... ...were doing with driving what Dream Big Vegas was doing. You were like an insid... ...our building blocks were. Dream Big Vegas and now Dream Big Nevada. Do you have ... ...that so many of the lawyers here in Vegas , the immigration attorneys, were like... ...We Dream training that was held here in Vegas , in the summer of 2011. I think thei... ...because by that time, through Dream Big Vegas , we had met—and I was working at a... ...I would go home and do the Dream Big Vegas stuff. I was meeting people ever... ...didn't know. My outfit was a Dream Big Vegas hoodie. That's what I wore to place... ...it, and so we did a little Dream Big Vegas , and PLAN helped us put it together. ... ...my entire life, the ICE office here in Vegas —for many, many years ICE shared a... ...already formed their lives of Dream Big Vegas . There were eleven original folks tha... ...them. I wasn't answering the Dream Big Vegas messages. More than ever people wer... ...another of the cofounders of Dream Big Vegas , he's with me. He happened to be i... ...he's with me. He happened to be in Vegas , because he was traveling all over th... Show more... Chris Hughes ...people like, “Should I be going to Vegas in the morning?” That was the thing... Harry Reid ...West, and he said, “I want to go to Vegas , I want to stop in Vegas, I want t... ...want to go to Vegas, I want to stop in Vegas , I want to see Reid.” He wasn'... Mitchell Stewart ...he's like, “Hey, can you go to [Las] Vegas and help out?” And so Paul went t... ...and help out?” And so Paul went to Vegas , Marygrace went to Vegas, and w... ...Paul went to Vegas, Marygrace went to Vegas , and we basically went there for te... Jim Messina ...and he now lives in and retires in Vegas . So I have every national reporte... ...every national reporter who's covering Vegas politics or the primary meet with him... Samantha Tubman ...never been to Iowa. I'd gone to [Las] Vegas when I worked at the law firm, but ... Michael Strautmanis ...a gambling analogy, if you're in [Las] Vegas and you walk in and you win a coupl... ...protected it, treated it like his Vegas winnings, and created a nest egg aroun... ...but bet to make sure he went home from Vegas with a lot of money. I don't know i... ...I haven't spent a lot of time in Vegas . It may be a terrible analogy. But ... Al Sharpton ...a year later, I'm in Nevada, leaving Vegas airport from a union convention I spok... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Science Science go to the LGBTQ Policy LGBTQ Policy go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Supreme Court Supreme Court go to the Wartime Presidency Wartime Presidency