[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13847]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 REMEBERING FORMER GOVERNOR KENNY GUINN

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, 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.
  I join all of Nevada in mourning the loss of truly a great man, one 
of Nevada's outstanding Governors, and a friend of mine about whom I 
will always feel strongly.

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