Shelley Berkley, the new mayor of Las Vegas, has been in politics for decades.
And some would say it began when she was a teenager.
In 1964, a Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist wrote a nasty opinion about The Beatles coming to town. He said Ringo’s nose was too big. This was at the height of Beatlemania, and Berkley, 13, was incensed. So she and other kids made signs and walked in a circle in front of the writer’s home in protest.
Nearly 20 years later, she would begin her official political career. In the early 1980s, she served a term in the Nevada Assembly. In the 1990s, she was elected to the state’s Higher Education Board of Regents. In 1999, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where she served 14 years.
Then she was hired as CEO of Touro University. And last November, she won the election for mayor of Las Vegas, taking office in January.
