Reagan Legacy Project in the News!
AOL News contributor Steve Friess posted an article today that features the Reagan Legacy Project in Nevada. Check out some of the highlights:
They’ve already named an airport, an aircraft carrier, a courthouse, a medical center, at least two post offices, several schools and more than two dozen roads for him. A McDonald’s in Alabama where he once ate even boasts a bust of him.
Yet that’s not enough for the most devout supporters of Ronald Reagan.
“We decided to aim for the biggest possible thing, which is a mountain,” said Karri Bragg, 24, who heads up an effort in the Silver State being dubbed the Reagan Legacy Project and will kick off the formal effort at a Reagan birthday celebration at a Las Vegas casino.
Bragg has learned that the namings can get tangled in local politics.
She was surprised to realize upon leaving Norquist’s organization to work in Las Vegas for the advocacy organization Citizens Outreach that nothing there had yet been named for Reagan despite the Silver State’s prominent role in the former California governor’s presidency.
Yet despite the construction of more than 200 schools in once-burgeoning Las Vegas since the 1980s, none has been named for Reagan. So Bragg said she’s looking for a mountain to name for Reagan somewhere other than in the Democratic stronghold of Clark County, which contains Las Vegas.
“We’re trying to find a peak that’s in a place where people in that community would be supportive of it,” she said, specifying rural northern Nevada as a likely target. “We’re not planning to drop it in a town where the people just reject it.”
Read the entire article here!
Author: Karri Bragg