Las Vegas Weekly

August 28, 2008 · 4:55 PM

Finally, we’re in

By John Katsilometes

Security at INVESCO is about as stringent as the TSA setup at McCarran International Airport. Shoes on, though. And we're in, and our time on line was about two hours. A couple of noteworthy comments:

-- From a kid selling Obama Change buttons, "I've had it with the past eight years! That's half my life!"

-- And from a cop monitoring the line, "Stay in line! No strife! This is a peaceful line!"

I talked to one of the many street entrepreneurs selling Obama T-shirts, bumper stickers, watches and whatnot. His name's Vince and he was wearing a Jason Kidd-New Jersey Nets jersey.

Vince is a real estate investor from L.A. with a lot of time on his hands right now, who also has a T-shirt store and has been tailing Obama for the past five months. He's been all over the country: Mississippi, Oregon, Pennsylvania, taking in about 100 Obama appearances. He started with about 100,000 shirts and caps and clearing (so far) $52,000. That doesn't count, "About $16,000." Where'd that go? "Donated it to Democrats, all over the country."

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