On the recordJuly 22, 2010
I have just learned of the loss of one of my dear friends. He was an orphan. He was a stellar athlete. He came to Las Vegas to be a schoolteacher, but he had such a dynamic personality that soon they learned in that rapidly growing school district, which is the fourth or fifth largest in the country, that they needed his kind of leadership. He went from being a teacher to running that huge school district in Las Vegas, the Clark County School District. He had such a magnetic personality. Kenny Guinn was built like an athlete. He was handsome as a movie star. He left the school district after a number of years and became a bank president. He became a big utility president in our major utility in Nevada. Then he became president of the university. I think he worked for $1 a year. He just did it to be nice. Somebody said to him: What you should do is run for Governor. It was a slam dunk. He was a very moderate Republican. He was elected Governor twice very easily. He did an extremely good job as Governor. We do not know what happened to Kenny today, but from reports we received, he was in an accident. He was on the roof and fell. He is dead now. I feel so badly about this. I talked with him a week or so ago about my campaign and his wonderful, beautiful, charming wife Dema. I feel so sad that Kenny is not with us anymore.
