Law firm tops in lobbying
Before a single shovel hits dirt or a crane pierces the sky, lobbyists are greasing the wheels for developers to construct Southern Nevada’s major resorts and master-planned communities.
Perhaps none wield as much influence with local officials as the attorneys at the Kaempfer Crowell law firm. With clients including Summerlin developer Howard Hughes Corp. and the Madison Square Garden Company, the firm’s lawyers appear regularly before the Clark County Commission and Las Vegas City Council to negotiate projects with price tags stretching into the hundreds of millions.
“If it has anything to do with government, we do it,” said senior partner and lobbying director Chris Kaempfer, 69. “Are we successful up there 90 percent of the time or more? Yes.”
It’s common to spot Kaempfer and his employees at county commission and city council meetings, but a Review-journal analysis of lobbying disclosure reports shows how dominant the
A 23-year-old woman with long brown curls, chandelier earrings and a slight Southern drawl clutched a bouquet of roses. A gold belt buckle cinched the waist of her orange sequined dress, and she wore a white cowboy hat topped with a dazzling jeweled crown.
Taylor Mcnair, of Learned, Mississippi, was crowned Miss Rodeo America on Sunday afternoon at the Tropicana.
As Miss Rodeo America, a role created in 1955, she hopes she will be remembered for building relationships with behind-the-scenes rodeo personnel.
“I’m a cowgirl through and through, and I hope they understand that Miss Rodeo America is here for them and that I’m a representative of them,” she said.
Mcnair, who grew up on a farm and has