Thread by @RalstonReports

"I want the hotel rooms open," @mayoroflasvegas declares on CNN.

Sports?

"I'd love everything open....we've had viruses here for years."

Here we go again....

@mayoroflasvegas Conventions?

"Absolutely. I want everything back."

@andersoncooper, like @KatyTurNBC before him, seems....surprised.

@mayoroflasvegas @andersoncooper @KatyTurNBC "Doesn't that sound like a virus petri dish?"

"No, it sounds like you are being an alarmist. I'm not."

@andersoncooper smiling at the charge.

How do social distancing in casino?

"That's up to them to figure out."

@mayoroflasvegas @andersoncooper @KatyTurNBC Now @andersoncooper asking about what @KatyTurNBC called her "survival of the fittest" comments.

@andersoncooper seems amused as she starts flattering him.

And he is quoting her and pushing her on the businesses becoming viral petri dishes and then spreading it.

So proud!

@mayoroflasvegas @andersoncooper @KatyTurNBC What are you doing to help testing and contact tracing?

Non-answer.

Repeats question.

"That's for our scientists."

"We're not getting the truth (about testing)."

Then shew invokes atomic testing and dishonesty in the '50s.

WHAT?

@mayoroflasvegas @andersoncooper @KatyTurNBC I think @andersoncooper is seriously in shock.

She won't answer what she is doing to help testing.

He is pushing her on how she is helping and she is not responsive. But says "I am all over our city every day."

Uh huh.

@mayoroflasvegas @andersoncooper @KatyTurNBC "I understand your position, but I don't really understand your position."

@andersoncooper speaking for all of us.

@mayoroflasvegas @andersoncooper @KatyTurNBC "This is not China. This is Las Vegas, Nevada."

"That is really ignorant," he says.

Damn.

@mayoroflasvegas @andersoncooper @KatyTurNBC Now she is talking about Legionnaire's Disease and Typhoid Mary.

I kid you not.

@andersoncooper
takes off his glasses and rubbed his face, presumably in amazement.

@mayoroflasvegas @andersoncooper @KatyTurNBC "You're talking disease. I'm talking life."

"That makes no sense."

This interview is insane.

"You're talking about the casino owners, your friends."

@mayoroflasvegas @andersoncooper @KatyTurNBC Now she says there was no problem and he quotes the cases and deaths.

"The flu is unbelievably powerful still," she says in a non sequitur.

150 deaths out of 2.3M people she says to downplay it.

He mentions social distancing might have helped!

@mayoroflasvegas @andersoncooper @KatyTurNBC She says not idea if social distancing works.Need a control group. "We'll be a control group."

He asks if she is offering residents as a control group.

Now she is talking about placebos and control groups.

This is nuts.

Truly.

@mayoroflasvegas @andersoncooper @KatyTurNBC "We weren't broken," she says.

Will she go in casinos if they open to put money where mouth is?

"I don't gamble."

As he closes, she then laughs and says she knows where he grew up.

Repeats testing is not her job.

"I wish you the best, @andersoncooper concludes.

@mayoroflasvegas @andersoncooper @KatyTurNBC I have seen many Nevada officials stumble on national TV. But that was the single most embarrassing thing i have seen by a NV pol in 35 years here. The mayor just showed the country she is unfit for office, and the commentary and shock and disgust here bears that out. My God.