November 4, 2025 • 45 mins
🎙️T.W.A.C! Season 2 – Episode 29 🎙️
“Vegas Stronger: Dr. Dave Marlon on Recovery, Renewal & Responsibility”
🎙️ Hosted by Garland Brinkey, Ph.D. & Patricia Brinkey, Esq.
✅Open Conversation with Intelligent Explanation ®
In this episode, Dr. Dave Marlon, CEO of Vegas Stronger and candidate for Las Vegas City Council Ward 6, joins the T.W.A.C! team to discuss how compassionate, evidence-based leadership can rebuild Las Vegas from the ground up.
From addiction recovery and homelessness to public safety, community care, and city accountability, Dr. Marlon shares his vision for a stronger, healthier Las Vegas—one focused on prevention, education, and real results.
🩺 Dr. Dave Marlon – Addiction recovery advocate, behavioral health innovator, CEO of Vegas Stronger, and candidate for Las Vegas City Council Ward 6.
📍 Topics Covered:
📌 Breaking the cycle of addiction and homelessness
📌 Building safer, cleaner neighborhoods in Ward 6
📌 Mental health, housing, and rehabilitation reform
📌 Community partnerships and faith-based outreach
📌 The role of compassionate conservatism in city leadership
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“Vegas Stronger: Dr. Dave Marlon on Recovery, Renewal & Responsibility”
🎙️ Hosted by Garland Brinkey, Ph.D. & Patricia Brinkey, Esq.
✅Open Conversation with Intelligent Explanation ®
In this episode, Dr. Dave Marlon, CEO of Vegas Stronger and candidate for Las Vegas City Council Ward 6, joins the T.W.A.C! team to discuss how compassionate, evidence-based leadership can rebuild Las Vegas from the ground up.
From addiction recovery and homelessness to public safety, community care, and city accountability, Dr. Marlon shares his vision for a stronger, healthier Las Vegas—one focused on prevention, education, and real results.
🩺 Dr. Dave Marlon – Addiction recovery advocate, behavioral health innovator, CEO of Vegas Stronger, and candidate for Las Vegas City Council Ward 6.
📍 Topics Covered:
📌 Breaking the cycle of addiction and homelessness
📌 Building safer, cleaner neighborhoods in Ward 6
📌 Mental health, housing, and rehabilitation reform
📌 Community partnerships and faith-based outreach
📌 The role of compassionate conservatism in city leadership
🎵 Music: Main Theme – “Talk With A Conservative (T.W.A.C!) Theme Song”
🎧 Listen Now:
❤️ iHeartRadio → Listen HERE - T.W.A.C!
📍 Broadcast Monday Nights @ 7 PM – KSHP 107.1 FM / 1400 AM – North Las Vegas
🌐 Stream anytime on Spreaker, iHeartRadio & more!
✅ “Open Conversation with Intelligent Explanation” ®
© 2025–2026 VSX Digital Network (VSXDN) / MDAMPM Enterprises / Talk With A Conservative (T.W.A.C!). All rights reserved.
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twenty four. I'm a retired university professor and I taught
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over ten thousand students that I gave grades to. I
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going to at law with over twenty five years of
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Speaker 1 (05:06):
Our guest is doctor David Marlin. Doctor Marlin is a
licensed drug and alcohol clinician with a doctorate in psychology,
which I was talking to him about that that takes
a lot of time and effort, but we'll get to that.
And he's also the co founder and CEO of the
nonprofit Vegas Stronger, which tackles homelessness and mental wellness. Doctor
(05:31):
Marlin is also running for Las Vegas City Council Ward six. Welcome,
doctor Marlin.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Thank you so much. Garland and Patricia, I really appreciate you,
and it's an honor to be here.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, it's an honor to have you. And so you
heard our question of the day and this is going
to be possibly up your alley as a potential city
council person. But what do you think about reducing the
residential limit from thirty five to twenty five?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Thanks for asking for First of all, I've noticed an
uptick in pedestrian fatalities in Ward six and it is
alarming and concerning. Now, I don't necessarily agree that a
blanket changing the speed limit around the valley from one
number to another number is the answer. I do believe
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it will be more situational, and I do think it's
important that one we're talking about it now because parents
need to hear this, because the primary intervention is going
to be kids, is going to be parents educating their kids.
I have two boys, twenty four and twenty three year old,
who both rode scooters and minibikes and motorcycles around Ward six.
(06:50):
I always made sure they wore their helmets, and their
mother was much more productive than I was. But the
end of the day, this is going to come down
to the.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Parents what we were driving over here as a matter
of fact, to them to the station. Because it's now
dark when we go over here, the people walk in
the streets are seem to all be in dark clothes.
We wonder if they go home and change into black
clothes and then go outside again and.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
They have no reflectors on, so you really can't same.
You have to be very observant when you're out there
driving now at night and so and then they're crossing
in the middle of the street. They don't go to
the crosswalk. It's almost like they want to be here.
I don't understand this mentality.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I think it's important on Grand Teton, a main artery
that runs through Ward six, that you know, all the
street lights work so we could see them. There's a
crosswalk right by Teton Trails Park where I walk my
dog every day, where you push a button, the lights flash,
traffic stops and it allows me to walk my dog.
(07:54):
And having interventions like those are effective and not only
risks on our citizens.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And our call in number is seven zero two two one,
seven two eight three. So Dave, you are a thirty
seven year Las Vegas resident, and you're originally from New York,
I am, And have you run for office before, and
if not, why did you decide now to run for office.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yes, I ran for city council in the prior cycle.
I'd engaged in prayer and it kind of came to
me suddenly. So I threw my hat in the ring
ninety days before the election last time, and I did
a quick sprint which really allowed me to kind of
peek behind the curtains to see what this is all involved.
(08:47):
And I did a little fundraising. I was able with
a team to knock each door twice of the people
who had voted in the prior three primaries, so I,
you know, put up signs, went through the process. I
lost by one hundred and thirty seven votes in the primary,
and I assumed I was done. About three months ago,
(09:10):
some of my neighbors came to me and said, David,
we need you to run. We have a serious problem
in Ward six.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And that problem is.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
The primary issue is that Ward six is growing materially
slower than the other five wards. Now that lack of
growth and that lack of infrastructure is a problem. It's
showing up in increased unemployments, and Las Vegas has the
highest unemploy urban unemployment in the country right now, and
(09:44):
that shouldn't happen. So I want to advocate for Ward
six residents and represent them. But I have to mention
I've been a CEO of four different corporations for the
last twenty five year, two of which I took my
own capital and started the company, began paying people. Each
(10:08):
of them became quite successful. However, my frame of reference
is very different than of a typical bureaucrat. I look
at government as usually something that's not helping our businesses,
but generally a challenge to it. And I would like
to help change the perspective of government to be more
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serving our city.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And I believe we have a caller. Yes, hello, caller, Hi,
Patricia's Nancy Wrecker. I'm listening and if I have a question,
I want to amuse myself. Okay, well you're on the
line now, so asked Dave A question.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Well, I guess the question I would ask since I
missed most.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Of what he's already said, That is, how does he
balance his time between running for office and running a nonprofit?
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Both running?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Oh, that's a great question, and thank you and thank
you Nancy. I founded Vegas Stronger. We got our licenses
about ten years ago. I've been running it full time
for the last eight and I'm grateful that I have
a strong team and they are ready to run it
without me. So while helping address our helping our underserved
(11:33):
and reducing homelessness remains a primary passion for me and
a calling, I recognize that our city has challenges that
need my expertise, and I'm ready to hand the reins
over to our management team.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Okay, and so you mentioned Vegas Stronger, So can you
let our listeners know what Vegas Stronger is is a
nonprofit and what you do.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Thank you. We're basically a clinic and we have our
main office on North Main Street and we help between
fifty and one hundred of our most underserved who walk
in our doors each week, and we help them get
clinical services. We recognize that our homelessness crisis is really
(12:22):
a mental health crisis and a substance use crisis. There's
about eight thousand unhoused in our valley, and at this
point I know most of them because I'm out in
the streets all the time. I have ten full time
people doing outreach and bringing clients in. I now have
one hundred and thirty staff, and we provide psychiatry, medical care, counseling,
(12:48):
case management, peer support. But we also have a theater
program and a fitness program and yoga program. Trying to
have all the bells and whistles of like a Betty Forward,
but deliver to the people who need it the most.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Okay, so you grew up in New York. We'll get
back to Vegas stronger. You grew up in New York
and where did you get your bachelor's and your graduate degrees?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I got my bachelor's in economics at sunny Stonybrook out
on Long Island. Worked in the city, Yeah, worked in
the city before I moved to Las Vegas. When I
got to Las Vegas, I began working for an HMO
called Sierra Health Services, where I worked for twenty years.
While I was there, I got my MBA at night
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at UNLV and I became a business guy. I eventually
became CEO of the insurance company and really learned healthcare systems.
In two thousand and five, I had my last drink
of alcohol, and I've been clean and sober for twenty years,
and I was no longer able to run a publicly
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traded insurance company for the sharehold once I got clean,
so I opened up a drug rehab called Solutions Recovery.
I built that over eleven years. I sold it to
a New York Sock Exchange publicly traded company, got more
money than I ever thought I would get, and retired.
I bought a house in del Mar on the water,
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and I thought I was going to be done there.
But in recovery, I became a man of prayer, and
whenever I prayed, I kept hearing sell the beach house,
go help the homeless. Yeah. And I was frustrated and
it wasn't what I wanted to hear.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
But I.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Came back to Las Vegas and I opened up a
little clinic and it's been steadily growing and now Vegas stronger.
We've helped over three thousand people and helping someone get
their kids back, stop going to jail, become self supporting
is is a great joy of my life.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I have a quick question the boundaries for Ward six.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Yes, it's roughly Decatur, so it's going to be west
of Decatur and then Anne Road north of Ann Road.
Up to the ninety five and it goes a little
higher up to Sky Canyon, and it's that Sky Canyon area.
What's amazing is in that little area that when I
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used to live on the edge of town was empty,
it now has one hundred and seventy thousand residents in it.
So it's a huge amount of humans that live in
Ward six. And we have a we have a rural
appreciation and it's interesting they call us a plus ten
trump Ward. We are very conservative, which makes our current
(15:52):
city council person selection sort of a puzzle.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
So this is and doing our conversation in the past
twenty two minutes, you mentioned prayer twice, So talk to
us about your faith and about how prayer acts, how
you look at prayer in your life.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Prayer drives my life. I mentioned I got clean and
sober in two thousand and five and I went through
a major shift to my life where I went from
being all about me to being all about serving and
that shift has brought me so much joy and it
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continues to But I do every single day and you know,
every morning when I wake up, Dave's there, so I
got a fall to my knees and get humbled and
you know, ask for his will. So what's very interesting
is that my profession as a drug and alcohol counselor,
we follow a medical model, but there's no question that
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spirituality comes into play and healing and helping people recover.
So it's not only part of my personal life, it's
also part of my occupation.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Just a quick observation, so the audience knows, Patricia and
I pray before we do the show. You do that
every week. I noticed that with your posts, for example,
to helping the homeless, it is not put them into
houses and then treat them. It's treat them first, the
mental illness and the substance abuse. So your competitors, if
(17:36):
you will, that I see as not really successful. I
can assume that you're much more successful a turning people around.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yeah, we offer a hand up, not a handout. And
last month they had me over to see us then
to do a debate with some housing first people, and
I was on stage for an hour and it was
an absolute pleasure seeing the whole audience realize that it
wasn't coming from an evil corporate perspective, that it was
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truly the most helpful for our most underserved.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
And that's very interesting. You mentioned helping people get their
children back as. Oh, we have a caller.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Hello, caller, Hey, Hello, missus Brinkley. This is mister Rojas Coolly.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Now, how are you you have a quart here Forday?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Yeah, I have a statement and a question. You know,
I'm part of a neighborhood watch groven Our facebook page
has eight thousand people on the east Side and homelessness
and traffic control are two issues now. Kevin mcmaanhill is
supporting red light cameras and the statistics show that it
(18:53):
will reduce fatalities at intersections, which are statistically shown that's
where most of the people are dying on intersections here
in Clark County, so red cameras would work. I like
my first question to your guest is what does you
think about red light cameras and for intersections? And then
(19:16):
the other thing is that I go out ink, I've
pulled away, I've pulled down about forty five encampments. I
talked to homeless people in camps all day long or
you know, regularly at least two or three maybe four
a week. What can he do for those people? Because
I think his service you have to have insurance.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Can he help these people that are out on the
street living in an encampment. It is illegal to have
an encampment and all of them are going to get
torn down. These people are going to be walking the streets.
They're going to either have to go stay with a friend.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Or go to a shelter service. And it's going to
create new opportunities for his services if he can help them.
How can we get those people channel to his service?
And can he help these people that are on the
street with no insurance?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Thank you, Alfa your.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Call, Dave, Yes, I'll thank you, And I have good
news and bad news. The good news is that Vegas Stronger.
The nonprofit clinic helps all Americans, so anybody who's in
one of those camps can come to us. We also
have something called the Golden Ticket program, and I'd like
to get you some Golden tickets which help clients come
(20:24):
to us to get food and shelter and engage in
clinical care as opposed to being on the street. Now,
that's the good news. I agree that traffic fatalities are
a big issue, but unfortunately I am not a supporter
of traffic cameras. And it's really from the Big Brother perspective,
(20:50):
I value freedom more than I value control.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Okay, well, it's interesting is that again, when I was
a teacher university wise, I did a lot of consulting,
and this was in California, and one of the programs
I looked at was actually not red light cameras, but
it's what we call alert Eyes and duys and this
is where people would call in when they saw a
(21:16):
drunk driver and they actually got a reward, a monetary ward,
and it was one hundred dollars. And this was back
in the eighties and the equivalent now it was three
hundred and fifty. But the money, the reward money came
from private individuals. This was in Stockton, California. It's still
going on. And the fatalities and injuries and damage from
(21:39):
auto crashes, not accidents, all the crashes were substantially less
there declined there within any other comparable city. So I've
actually talked to a couple people about that, but it's
like I'd like to see that actually implemented here. So
it's not a red light. There's an interesting things with
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that because people would actually stand outside bars they called
them DUI factories, and call them when they would see
someone test, stagger out, get in the car and drive away.
They call it in. If they're rested for DUI, they
get the money.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Call well, I certainly support the rule of law, and
to me, this doesn't seem, uh, you know, onerous. So
that sounds like a great program to me to help
people stay safe.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
We're just paying people to be good neighbors.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
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Speaker 1 (24:24):
So, Dave, you mentioned you help some of the homeless
people or with drug issues or just homelessness get their
children back, and that's something that I can relate to
because in California, for over ten years, I help represent
parents who have their children taken away from them by
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Child Protective Services, and so I can relate to that process,
and at least in California, it is a very strenuous
process for them to go through and if they don't
abide by the rules, and if they are not able
to get their children back within eighteen months, and their
children are putting foster care and some of them are
(25:06):
eventually adopted out. So can you just tell the listeners
a little bit more about that issue with the homeless.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
At Vegas Stronger, we kind of have three pillars. One
is same day access, so if somebody comes in, they're
going to see a counselor the same day. The second
is integrated care where I have five psychiatric prescribers, over
eighty clinicians, case management, peer support, and they get integrated care.
The third is longer durations of treatment and my average
(25:38):
client stays with me for five and a half months. Now,
when you treat someone who has been on the streets
for ten years or in the tunnels using fentanyl for
ten years, it takes more than a thirty day treatment
episode to help get them well. But what I see
happening on a regular basis is as clients come in
(26:00):
and they get cleared up and they get to week two,
week three, week four, Very frequently I have parents being like,
you know what, I need to get my kids back. Normally,
we're saying, hold your horses. What we need to do
is we need to stop using methamphetamine, we need to
stop using fence and all and let's get strong enough first.
(26:20):
But then helping get their children back is one of
the greatest joys in life. I still remember the sound
of a little girl in her shoes clipping a clopping
across the floor and going to Huger mom who had
came back. And you know, to me, there's no I'm
in the right job, you know, right now. And helping
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people become self supporting and get their lives back is
a true joy.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
This is why God didn't winter to stay on the beach. Yes,
if people want to volunteer and donate to Vegas stronger,
how can they do that.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
We're open seven days a week and please come down
and offered to help. I have noticed that our food
banks have had a decreased supply lately, and we get
food from the Just One Project, who's amazing, and Jewish
Family Services and the Venetian They all donate food to us,
(27:17):
but lately the amount of food coming in has been diminishing,
and we welcome packaged meals. We welcome food because I
feed about one hundred and fifty people a day in
lunch and about fifty a day of breakfast, because we
find clients can't benefit from treatment if they're starving. So
(27:39):
just like I got in the transportation business, in addition
to the clinical business, I'm also in the food business.
So we welcome volunteers, we welcome food, and if you
go to Vegas Stronger Dot Oregon, you could donate your
financial support. That's always greatly appreciated.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
So we have November first. Many people had their SNAP benefits,
not termany, but suspend it until this shutdown has run
its course. So what are your thoughts about the termination
of these benefits for these needy people.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Well, I think, like all Americans, I'm frustrated that our
government is shut down. I do hope that that is
rectified soon. In the meantime, you know, we've all got
to see that we have over forty one million Americans
who are on SNAP and that has concerned me. In Nevada,
(28:41):
it's over twelve percent of the population, and it makes
sense to me that there's a small percentage of us
who would need this, but it has made me question it.
I do hope they get turned on quickly. I'm grateful
that many of our food pantries and food banks are rallying,
so no one goes hungry at this time. And like
(29:04):
I said, I hope this gets rectified soon.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Well, you know you mentioned earlier that Nevada had the
highest rate of unemployment, and so unemployment will go hand
in hand with people with eating these additional services, and
so there's no uh, it's not a question to me
that we have such a high need here.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Yeah, you know, that does make sense that it would
be correlated. Although you know, with a five percent unemployments
and over twelve percent on snap, you know that the
hope is that people will get off it. But of
course nobody in our village should starve.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Our call a number is seven oh two two two
one seven two eighty three. Put that on your speed dial.
The next considerative Town Hall of North Las Vegas will
be Thursday, November sixth that's this Thursday. Speaker will be
none other than our guests tonight, doctor David Marlin. He's
a CEO and founder, a Vegas Stronger, and a candidate
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for Las Vegas City Council Ward six. So come on down.
We're also joined by two exceptional female veterans Laura lac
and Boulder City Councilwoman Denise Ashurst. Come join us, bring
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And we'll be celebrating Veterans Day.
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Yes, and also a shout out to Dave Flippo, retired
lieutenant colonel, who's one of our responsors for the show
and he's running for Congressional District four.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
So, if you are a licensed drug an alcohol clinician,
how do you address the issues of drug and alcohol abuse?
And first, do we still use those terms to describe
this particular issue, and if not, what term are we
using now?
Speaker 4 (31:03):
We call them substance use disorders, and I treat the
whole spectrum of chemical as well as behavioral dependencies. We
treated over three thousand unhoused and help bring them into
our clinic. In our interventions of them, ninety four percent
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of them came in and were diagnosed with a substance
use disorder. So I want to point out that the
homelessness crisis and our substance use crisis, there's a lot
of crossover, and I am a local expert at treating
substance use disorders. In my career, I've helped over ten
thousand people. That's a lot of patients in our little valley. Now,
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the process is unique for each person, but generally starts
with a physiological separation, a detoxification, and then the much
longer and the much I believe harder psychological separation that
takes time. We use a variety of counseling interventions as
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well as some pharmacological support. But we're in abstinence based programs.
We're not looking to peep to put people on a
lifetime of medications, but there are certainly psychotropic meds. There's
also a variety of medications to help our clients achieve
abstinence and then become stable enough to stay in abstinence
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on their own.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Now, I worked for California for twenty years and there's
a California state government, and one thing I noticed there
was that when a like agency was established to address
a problem, generally the problem didn't go away because if
it went away, that people would lose their jobs, and
so there was an incentive to continue and expand the
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issue of the problem. Now because you're private but you're
not government funded. I assume that once you start solving it,
you'll abolish Vegas stronger. And do you see an end
to the homeless.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Ever since I was a kid, there would be a
few homeless in our town. And I don't like to
say I'm going to end homelessness entirely, but right now
it's at a crisis kind of epidemic proportion and it
needs to be materially reduced. Now. I'm grateful that this
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year Clark County implemented a camping ban, so now enforcement
is pushing down, our doors are open to help people.
We're still scaling in size, and I hope to be
able to treat half of the homeless population next year.
And I would like nothing more than to work myself
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out of a job in three to five years and
get homelessness under control. I like to mention that nineteen
years ago, Las Vegas came up with a slogan what
happens her stays here, and it's iconic, and I think
that was a great slogan. I'm hoping that next year,
uh Las Vegas could come up with a new slogan,
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something like we've shown that we have a soul and
we helped solve the social condition of homelessness. I think
that would make people want to come in and spend
their tourism dollars here much more. And I think it's
something that's that's in reach that we have the capability.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
To do well if you solve the problem. We moved
back to del Mar.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I'll call in numbers seven zero two two two one
seven two eighty three. So your platform is to take
on the affordability crisis in Las Vegas. What is this
crisis exactly? And how do you plan to accomplish that task.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
I've lived in Las Vegas for thirty seven years and
decade to go. Living in Las Vegas was different when
I brought my paycheck home the amount of costs that
I had. That gap used to allow me to save money.
And I've noticed that there's affordability challenges that are that
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are facing all of us and and I really think
my perspective in the city as an entrepreneur, as a
as a person in business will be very helpful. I
see too often the city trying to regulate our way
out of this affordability crisis, and they're just making it
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harder and harder. As I've talked to a variety of
businesses in ward six, they all said the amount of
time it took that they were paying their mortgage on
their business till they were able to get licensing up
and running was very long. Now there's something tangible that
I want to grab onto that Henderson does. And I
noticed Henderson kind of growing faster than the city Las Vegas.
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That shouldn't happen. They implemented a simple rule where if
you file for a business license or a permit, they
turned it around in thirty days. If you address the deficiencies,
they point out, they have fourteen days to give you
a business license to be able to move on. Now,
Las Vegas has a terrible habit of and I know
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this back from my insurance company days, where we'd deny
a claim it would come in, we would deny it
for something else that kicking the can down the road
is costly. It drives up the costs of goods, and
it makes it harder for all of us to live.
In addition, there's no way Dave Marlin will ever raise taxes.
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And I think as we had an over six hundred
million dollar lawsuits that city got into and then the
city chose to settle and spend our tax money on it.
Showed me that we need a person who used to
run an insurance company, who could look at risk mitigation,
and also who would address any settlements as something like
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it was our money as opposed to making this horrendously
large settlement on our behalf. That gives you a little
indication of the kind of person I am and the
way I will look at these problems to try to
help return Las Vegas to the city it should be.
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Speaker 1 (39:19):
For Oh, we have a caller.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Hello caller, how are you doing?
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Miss Brinkley?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Hello Frank, how are you?
Speaker 5 (39:29):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
And what is your question? This evening for our guests, Well.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
A little bit of a question, a little bit of
a not understanding of all the hypocrisy that's going on.
We know that we have traffic issues, we know that
we have crime issues and drug issues, but yet we
do nothing to solve it. We don't put TOM units
in school zones, we don't actually take you know, DUI seriously,
what is the candidate going to do to start stepping
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up punishment for DUIs so that it doesn't affect the
sued motorists who are being responsible and having our rates
go up and actually having people that you know have
a fatality during a duy serve some serious time.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
I'm gonna tell you I agree with you. However, that's legislate,
legislative issues of which many of my Republican peers are
championing making those penalties firmer, and I certainly support them,
but that won't be something done at the city level.
I'll certainly be supporting the police and supporting the rule
(40:38):
of law. From from my viewpoint, you know, I agree
with you. Safety of my wife, of my kids, of
people in my community are of highest importance.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
And thank you Frank for that question. And so Dave,
your platform stays that you want to bring back a
common sense of approach to city government. What exactly does
that mean and how exactly will you implement this approach?
Speaker 4 (41:09):
As I mentioned, I've been a CEO of four different
corporations over the last twenty five years. You know, being
a CEO, there's a defined amount of revenue that comes in,
there's a defined amount of expenses that we were able
to have, and there's some things that are just impractical
(41:29):
and inappropriate. So the fundamental issue is going to be
my perspective. I'm not a bureaucrat. I'm not a person
who's his life and career has been in government. My
career has been in business, and I think my frame
of reference will help. I talked about specific things that
I wanted to do with the permitting process, but you know,
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I expect to try to change the whole perspective of
this city from supporting its citizens as opposed to ruling
over them. As I see North Las Vegas and Henderson
growing and Las Vegas seeming stuck, I recognize that's that's caused.
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It's caused by our own making, and I'm hoping to
free the reins to be able to allow us to
flourish and blossom. Now, something that really concerns me that
weaves right into this is that forty years ago, eighty
five percent of thirty five year olds owned a home
(42:38):
in the United States. Now thirty five year olds, it's
about twelve percent of them are able to own a home.
And that crisis is horrific to me. And having home
ownership become unattainable for like my kids, or for our
citizens or people who work here, that's something that I
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would like to help address. I have some very specific
plans to implement, which I hope I could talk to
you both about at our town hall coming up.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Okay, and so I want to thank our guests this evening,
doctor David Marlin of Vegas Stronger for joining us this evening. Dave,
do you have any final thoughts or comments or is
there any contact information you want to leave for your
campaign both.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
I want to point out that November tenth, in a
week is the United States Marine Course two hundred and
fiftieth birthday. Oorah. I'm grateful that my wife served for
eight years and our son, he's in his fifth year
of the Marines, currently stationed in New Orleans. Hey Tristan.
If you want to reach out to me, I'm on
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all different social media platforms, David Marlin or you could
go to Vegastronger dot org or day four Vegas dot com.
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our ro host, and Frank Free. We want to also
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and encouragement. God bless you and God bless America.
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Our guest is doctor David Marlin. Doctor Marlin is a
licensed drug and alcohol clinician with a doctorate in psychology,
which I was talking to him about that that takes
a lot of time and effort, but we'll get to that.
And he's also the co founder and CEO of the
nonprofit Vegas Stronger, which tackles homelessness and mental wellness. Doctor
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Marlin is also running for Las Vegas City Council Ward six. Welcome,
doctor Marlin.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Thank you so much. Garland and Patricia, I really appreciate you,
and it's an honor to be here.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, it's an honor to have you. And so you
heard our question of the day and this is going
to be possibly up your alley as a potential city
council person. But what do you think about reducing the
residential limit from thirty five to twenty five?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Thanks for asking for First of all, I've noticed an
uptick in pedestrian fatalities in Ward six and it is
alarming and concerning. Now, I don't necessarily agree that a
blanket changing the speed limit around the valley from one
number to another number is the answer. I do believe
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it will be more situational, and I do think it's
important that one we're talking about it now because parents
need to hear this, because the primary intervention is going
to be kids, is going to be parents educating their kids.
I have two boys, twenty four and twenty three year old,
who both rode scooters and minibikes and motorcycles around Ward six.
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I always made sure they wore their helmets, and their
mother was much more productive than I was. But the
end of the day, this is going to come down
to the.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Parents what we were driving over here as a matter
of fact, to them to the station. Because it's now
dark when we go over here, the people walk in
the streets are seem to all be in dark clothes.
We wonder if they go home and change into black
clothes and then go outside again and.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
They have no reflectors on, so you really can't same.
You have to be very observant when you're out there
driving now at night and so and then they're crossing
in the middle of the street. They don't go to
the crosswalk. It's almost like they want to be here.
I don't understand this mentality.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I think it's important on Grand Teton, a main artery
that runs through Ward six, that you know, all the
street lights work so we could see them. There's a
crosswalk right by Teton Trails Park where I walk my
dog every day, where you push a button, the lights flash,
traffic stops and it allows me to walk my dog.
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And having interventions like those are effective and not only
risks on our citizens.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And our call in number is seven zero two two one,
seven two eight three. So Dave, you are a thirty
seven year Las Vegas resident, and you're originally from New York,
I am, And have you run for office before, and
if not, why did you decide now to run for office.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yes, I ran for city council in the prior cycle.
I'd engaged in prayer and it kind of came to
me suddenly. So I threw my hat in the ring
ninety days before the election last time, and I did
a quick sprint which really allowed me to kind of
peek behind the curtains to see what this is all involved.
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And I did a little fundraising. I was able with
a team to knock each door twice of the people
who had voted in the prior three primaries, so I,
you know, put up signs, went through the process. I
lost by one hundred and thirty seven votes in the primary,
and I assumed I was done. About three months ago,
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some of my neighbors came to me and said, David,
we need you to run. We have a serious problem
in Ward six.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And that problem is.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
The primary issue is that Ward six is growing materially
slower than the other five wards. Now that lack of
growth and that lack of infrastructure is a problem. It's
showing up in increased unemployments, and Las Vegas has the
highest unemploy urban unemployment in the country right now, and
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that shouldn't happen. So I want to advocate for Ward
six residents and represent them. But I have to mention
I've been a CEO of four different corporations for the
last twenty five year, two of which I took my
own capital and started the company, began paying people. Each
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of them became quite successful. However, my frame of reference
is very different than of a typical bureaucrat. I look
at government as usually something that's not helping our businesses,
but generally a challenge to it. And I would like
to help change the perspective of government to be more
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serving our city.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And I believe we have a caller. Yes, hello, caller, Hi,
Patricia's Nancy Wrecker. I'm listening and if I have a question,
I want to amuse myself. Okay, well you're on the
line now, so asked Dave A question.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Well, I guess the question I would ask since I
missed most.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Of what he's already said, That is, how does he
balance his time between running for office and running a nonprofit?
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Both running?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Oh, that's a great question, and thank you and thank
you Nancy. I founded Vegas Stronger. We got our licenses
about ten years ago. I've been running it full time
for the last eight and I'm grateful that I have
a strong team and they are ready to run it
without me. So while helping address our helping our underserved
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and reducing homelessness remains a primary passion for me and
a calling, I recognize that our city has challenges that
need my expertise, and I'm ready to hand the reins
over to our management team.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Okay, and so you mentioned Vegas Stronger, So can you
let our listeners know what Vegas Stronger is is a
nonprofit and what you do.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Thank you. We're basically a clinic and we have our
main office on North Main Street and we help between
fifty and one hundred of our most underserved who walk
in our doors each week, and we help them get
clinical services. We recognize that our homelessness crisis is really
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a mental health crisis and a substance use crisis. There's
about eight thousand unhoused in our valley, and at this
point I know most of them because I'm out in
the streets all the time. I have ten full time
people doing outreach and bringing clients in. I now have
one hundred and thirty staff, and we provide psychiatry, medical care, counseling,
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case management, peer support. But we also have a theater
program and a fitness program and yoga program. Trying to
have all the bells and whistles of like a Betty Forward,
but deliver to the people who need it the most.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Okay, so you grew up in New York. We'll get
back to Vegas stronger. You grew up in New York
and where did you get your bachelor's and your graduate degrees?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I got my bachelor's in economics at sunny Stonybrook out
on Long Island. Worked in the city, Yeah, worked in
the city before I moved to Las Vegas. When I
got to Las Vegas, I began working for an HMO
called Sierra Health Services, where I worked for twenty years.
While I was there, I got my MBA at night
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at UNLV and I became a business guy. I eventually
became CEO of the insurance company and really learned healthcare systems.
In two thousand and five, I had my last drink
of alcohol, and I've been clean and sober for twenty years,
and I was no longer able to run a publicly
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traded insurance company for the sharehold once I got clean,
so I opened up a drug rehab called Solutions Recovery.
I built that over eleven years. I sold it to
a New York Sock Exchange publicly traded company, got more
money than I ever thought I would get, and retired.
I bought a house in del Mar on the water,
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and I thought I was going to be done there.
But in recovery, I became a man of prayer, and
whenever I prayed, I kept hearing sell the beach house,
go help the homeless. Yeah. And I was frustrated and
it wasn't what I wanted to hear.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
But I.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Came back to Las Vegas and I opened up a
little clinic and it's been steadily growing and now Vegas stronger.
We've helped over three thousand people and helping someone get
their kids back, stop going to jail, become self supporting
is is a great joy of my life.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I have a quick question the boundaries for Ward six.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Yes, it's roughly Decatur, so it's going to be west
of Decatur and then Anne Road north of Ann Road.
Up to the ninety five and it goes a little
higher up to Sky Canyon, and it's that Sky Canyon area.
What's amazing is in that little area that when I
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used to live on the edge of town was empty,
it now has one hundred and seventy thousand residents in it.
So it's a huge amount of humans that live in
Ward six. And we have a we have a rural
appreciation and it's interesting they call us a plus ten
trump Ward. We are very conservative, which makes our current
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city council person selection sort of a puzzle.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
So this is and doing our conversation in the past
twenty two minutes, you mentioned prayer twice, So talk to
us about your faith and about how prayer acts, how
you look at prayer in your life.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Prayer drives my life. I mentioned I got clean and
sober in two thousand and five and I went through
a major shift to my life where I went from
being all about me to being all about serving and
that shift has brought me so much joy and it
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continues to But I do every single day and you know,
every morning when I wake up, Dave's there, so I
got a fall to my knees and get humbled and
you know, ask for his will. So what's very interesting
is that my profession as a drug and alcohol counselor,
we follow a medical model, but there's no question that
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spirituality comes into play and healing and helping people recover.
So it's not only part of my personal life, it's
also part of my occupation.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Just a quick observation, so the audience knows, Patricia and
I pray before we do the show. You do that
every week. I noticed that with your posts, for example,
to helping the homeless, it is not put them into
houses and then treat them. It's treat them first, the
mental illness and the substance abuse. So your competitors, if
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you will, that I see as not really successful. I
can assume that you're much more successful a turning people around.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yeah, we offer a hand up, not a handout. And
last month they had me over to see us then
to do a debate with some housing first people, and
I was on stage for an hour and it was
an absolute pleasure seeing the whole audience realize that it
wasn't coming from an evil corporate perspective, that it was
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truly the most helpful for our most underserved.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
And that's very interesting. You mentioned helping people get their
children back as. Oh, we have a caller.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Hello, caller, Hey, Hello, missus Brinkley. This is mister Rojas Coolly.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Now, how are you you have a quart here Forday?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Yeah, I have a statement and a question. You know,
I'm part of a neighborhood watch groven Our facebook page
has eight thousand people on the east Side and homelessness
and traffic control are two issues now. Kevin mcmaanhill is
supporting red light cameras and the statistics show that it
(18:53):
will reduce fatalities at intersections, which are statistically shown that's
where most of the people are dying on intersections here
in Clark County, so red cameras would work. I like
my first question to your guest is what does you
think about red light cameras and for intersections? And then
(19:16):
the other thing is that I go out ink, I've
pulled away, I've pulled down about forty five encampments. I
talked to homeless people in camps all day long or
you know, regularly at least two or three maybe four
a week. What can he do for those people? Because
I think his service you have to have insurance.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Can he help these people that are out on the
street living in an encampment. It is illegal to have
an encampment and all of them are going to get
torn down. These people are going to be walking the streets.
They're going to either have to go stay with a friend.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Or go to a shelter service. And it's going to
create new opportunities for his services if he can help them.
How can we get those people channel to his service?
And can he help these people that are on the
street with no insurance?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Thank you, Alfa your.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Call, Dave, Yes, I'll thank you, And I have good
news and bad news. The good news is that Vegas Stronger.
The nonprofit clinic helps all Americans, so anybody who's in
one of those camps can come to us. We also
have something called the Golden Ticket program, and I'd like
to get you some Golden tickets which help clients come
(20:24):
to us to get food and shelter and engage in
clinical care as opposed to being on the street. Now,
that's the good news. I agree that traffic fatalities are
a big issue, but unfortunately I am not a supporter
of traffic cameras. And it's really from the Big Brother perspective,
(20:50):
I value freedom more than I value control.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Okay, well, it's interesting is that again, when I was
a teacher university wise, I did a lot of consulting,
and this was in California, and one of the programs
I looked at was actually not red light cameras, but
it's what we call alert Eyes and duys and this
is where people would call in when they saw a
(21:16):
drunk driver and they actually got a reward, a monetary ward,
and it was one hundred dollars. And this was back
in the eighties and the equivalent now it was three
hundred and fifty. But the money, the reward money came
from private individuals. This was in Stockton, California. It's still
going on. And the fatalities and injuries and damage from
(21:39):
auto crashes, not accidents, all the crashes were substantially less
there declined there within any other comparable city. So I've
actually talked to a couple people about that, but it's
like I'd like to see that actually implemented here. So
it's not a red light. There's an interesting things with
(22:00):
that because people would actually stand outside bars they called
them DUI factories, and call them when they would see
someone test, stagger out, get in the car and drive away.
They call it in. If they're rested for DUI, they
get the money.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Call well, I certainly support the rule of law, and
to me, this doesn't seem, uh, you know, onerous. So
that sounds like a great program to me to help
people stay safe.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
We're just paying people to be good neighbors.
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Speaker 1 (24:24):
So, Dave, you mentioned you help some of the homeless
people or with drug issues or just homelessness get their
children back, and that's something that I can relate to
because in California, for over ten years, I help represent
parents who have their children taken away from them by
(24:45):
Child Protective Services, and so I can relate to that process,
and at least in California, it is a very strenuous
process for them to go through and if they don't
abide by the rules, and if they are not able
to get their children back within eighteen months, and their
children are putting foster care and some of them are
(25:06):
eventually adopted out. So can you just tell the listeners
a little bit more about that issue with the homeless.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
At Vegas Stronger, we kind of have three pillars. One
is same day access, so if somebody comes in, they're
going to see a counselor the same day. The second
is integrated care where I have five psychiatric prescribers, over
eighty clinicians, case management, peer support, and they get integrated care.
The third is longer durations of treatment and my average
(25:38):
client stays with me for five and a half months. Now,
when you treat someone who has been on the streets
for ten years or in the tunnels using fentanyl for
ten years, it takes more than a thirty day treatment
episode to help get them well. But what I see
happening on a regular basis is as clients come in
(26:00):
and they get cleared up and they get to week two,
week three, week four, Very frequently I have parents being like,
you know what, I need to get my kids back. Normally,
we're saying, hold your horses. What we need to do
is we need to stop using methamphetamine, we need to
stop using fence and all and let's get strong enough first.
(26:20):
But then helping get their children back is one of
the greatest joys in life. I still remember the sound
of a little girl in her shoes clipping a clopping
across the floor and going to Huger mom who had
came back. And you know, to me, there's no I'm
in the right job, you know, right now. And helping
(26:41):
people become self supporting and get their lives back is
a true joy.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
This is why God didn't winter to stay on the beach. Yes,
if people want to volunteer and donate to Vegas stronger,
how can they do that.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
We're open seven days a week and please come down
and offered to help. I have noticed that our food
banks have had a decreased supply lately, and we get
food from the Just One Project, who's amazing, and Jewish
Family Services and the Venetian They all donate food to us,
(27:17):
but lately the amount of food coming in has been diminishing,
and we welcome packaged meals. We welcome food because I
feed about one hundred and fifty people a day in
lunch and about fifty a day of breakfast, because we
find clients can't benefit from treatment if they're starving. So
(27:39):
just like I got in the transportation business, in addition
to the clinical business, I'm also in the food business.
So we welcome volunteers, we welcome food, and if you
go to Vegas Stronger Dot Oregon, you could donate your
financial support. That's always greatly appreciated.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
So we have November first. Many people had their SNAP benefits,
not termany, but suspend it until this shutdown has run
its course. So what are your thoughts about the termination
of these benefits for these needy people.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Well, I think, like all Americans, I'm frustrated that our
government is shut down. I do hope that that is
rectified soon. In the meantime, you know, we've all got
to see that we have over forty one million Americans
who are on SNAP and that has concerned me. In Nevada,
(28:41):
it's over twelve percent of the population, and it makes
sense to me that there's a small percentage of us
who would need this, but it has made me question it.
I do hope they get turned on quickly. I'm grateful
that many of our food pantries and food banks are rallying,
so no one goes hungry at this time. And like
(29:04):
I said, I hope this gets rectified soon.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Well, you know you mentioned earlier that Nevada had the
highest rate of unemployment, and so unemployment will go hand
in hand with people with eating these additional services, and
so there's no uh, it's not a question to me
that we have such a high need here.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Yeah, you know, that does make sense that it would
be correlated. Although you know, with a five percent unemployments
and over twelve percent on snap, you know that the
hope is that people will get off it. But of
course nobody in our village should starve.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Our call a number is seven oh two two two
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The next considerative Town Hall of North Las Vegas will
be Thursday, November sixth that's this Thursday. Speaker will be
none other than our guests tonight, doctor David Marlin. He's
a CEO and founder, a Vegas Stronger, and a candidate
(30:08):
for Las Vegas City Council Ward six. So come on down.
We're also joined by two exceptional female veterans Laura lac
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And we'll be celebrating Veterans Day.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yes, and also a shout out to Dave Flippo, retired
lieutenant colonel, who's one of our responsors for the show
and he's running for Congressional District four.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
So, if you are a licensed drug an alcohol clinician,
how do you address the issues of drug and alcohol abuse?
And first, do we still use those terms to describe
this particular issue, and if not, what term are we
using now?
Speaker 4 (31:03):
We call them substance use disorders, and I treat the
whole spectrum of chemical as well as behavioral dependencies. We
treated over three thousand unhoused and help bring them into
our clinic. In our interventions of them, ninety four percent
(31:24):
of them came in and were diagnosed with a substance
use disorder. So I want to point out that the
homelessness crisis and our substance use crisis, there's a lot
of crossover, and I am a local expert at treating
substance use disorders. In my career, I've helped over ten
thousand people. That's a lot of patients in our little valley. Now,
(31:48):
the process is unique for each person, but generally starts
with a physiological separation, a detoxification, and then the much
longer and the much I believe harder psychological separation that
takes time. We use a variety of counseling interventions as
(32:10):
well as some pharmacological support. But we're in abstinence based programs.
We're not looking to peep to put people on a
lifetime of medications, but there are certainly psychotropic meds. There's
also a variety of medications to help our clients achieve
abstinence and then become stable enough to stay in abstinence
(32:31):
on their own.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Now, I worked for California for twenty years and there's
a California state government, and one thing I noticed there
was that when a like agency was established to address
a problem, generally the problem didn't go away because if
it went away, that people would lose their jobs, and
so there was an incentive to continue and expand the
(32:57):
issue of the problem. Now because you're private but you're
not government funded. I assume that once you start solving it,
you'll abolish Vegas stronger. And do you see an end
to the homeless.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Ever since I was a kid, there would be a
few homeless in our town. And I don't like to
say I'm going to end homelessness entirely, but right now
it's at a crisis kind of epidemic proportion and it
needs to be materially reduced. Now. I'm grateful that this
(33:35):
year Clark County implemented a camping ban, so now enforcement
is pushing down, our doors are open to help people.
We're still scaling in size, and I hope to be
able to treat half of the homeless population next year.
And I would like nothing more than to work myself
(33:56):
out of a job in three to five years and
get homelessness under control. I like to mention that nineteen
years ago, Las Vegas came up with a slogan what
happens her stays here, and it's iconic, and I think
that was a great slogan. I'm hoping that next year,
uh Las Vegas could come up with a new slogan,
(34:18):
something like we've shown that we have a soul and
we helped solve the social condition of homelessness. I think
that would make people want to come in and spend
their tourism dollars here much more. And I think it's
something that's that's in reach that we have the capability.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
To do well if you solve the problem. We moved
back to del Mar.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I'll call in numbers seven zero two two two one
seven two eighty three. So your platform is to take
on the affordability crisis in Las Vegas. What is this
crisis exactly? And how do you plan to accomplish that task.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
I've lived in Las Vegas for thirty seven years and
decade to go. Living in Las Vegas was different when
I brought my paycheck home the amount of costs that
I had. That gap used to allow me to save money.
And I've noticed that there's affordability challenges that are that
(35:17):
are facing all of us and and I really think
my perspective in the city as an entrepreneur, as a
as a person in business will be very helpful. I
see too often the city trying to regulate our way
out of this affordability crisis, and they're just making it
(35:38):
harder and harder. As I've talked to a variety of
businesses in ward six, they all said the amount of
time it took that they were paying their mortgage on
their business till they were able to get licensing up
and running was very long. Now there's something tangible that
I want to grab onto that Henderson does. And I
noticed Henderson kind of growing faster than the city Las Vegas.
(36:00):
That shouldn't happen. They implemented a simple rule where if
you file for a business license or a permit, they
turned it around in thirty days. If you address the deficiencies,
they point out, they have fourteen days to give you
a business license to be able to move on. Now,
Las Vegas has a terrible habit of and I know
(36:21):
this back from my insurance company days, where we'd deny
a claim it would come in, we would deny it
for something else that kicking the can down the road
is costly. It drives up the costs of goods, and
it makes it harder for all of us to live.
In addition, there's no way Dave Marlin will ever raise taxes.
(36:41):
And I think as we had an over six hundred
million dollar lawsuits that city got into and then the
city chose to settle and spend our tax money on it.
Showed me that we need a person who used to
run an insurance company, who could look at risk mitigation,
and also who would address any settlements as something like
(37:02):
it was our money as opposed to making this horrendously
large settlement on our behalf. That gives you a little
indication of the kind of person I am and the
way I will look at these problems to try to
help return Las Vegas to the city it should be.
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November sixth Look out on your calendar. It's at eleven
thirty and our speaker will be none other than our
guest is leaving doctor David Martin Marvin, and he's a CEO,
(38:49):
founder of Vegas Stronger and a candidate for Las Vegas
City Council Ward six, and so if you live there,
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be joined by two exceptional female veterans, Lour Lac and
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(39:10):
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Speaker 1 (39:19):
For Oh, we have a caller.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Hello caller, how are you doing?
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Miss Brinkley?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Hello Frank, how are you?
Speaker 5 (39:29):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
And what is your question? This evening for our guests, Well.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
A little bit of a question, a little bit of
a not understanding of all the hypocrisy that's going on.
We know that we have traffic issues, we know that
we have crime issues and drug issues, but yet we
do nothing to solve it. We don't put TOM units
in school zones, we don't actually take you know, DUI seriously,
what is the candidate going to do to start stepping
(39:55):
up punishment for DUIs so that it doesn't affect the
sued motorists who are being responsible and having our rates
go up and actually having people that you know have
a fatality during a duy serve some serious time.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
I'm gonna tell you I agree with you. However, that's legislate,
legislative issues of which many of my Republican peers are
championing making those penalties firmer, and I certainly support them,
but that won't be something done at the city level.
I'll certainly be supporting the police and supporting the rule
(40:38):
of law. From from my viewpoint, you know, I agree
with you. Safety of my wife, of my kids, of
people in my community are of highest importance.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
And thank you Frank for that question. And so Dave,
your platform stays that you want to bring back a
common sense of approach to city government. What exactly does
that mean and how exactly will you implement this approach?
Speaker 4 (41:09):
As I mentioned, I've been a CEO of four different
corporations over the last twenty five years. You know, being
a CEO, there's a defined amount of revenue that comes in,
there's a defined amount of expenses that we were able
to have, and there's some things that are just impractical
(41:29):
and inappropriate. So the fundamental issue is going to be
my perspective. I'm not a bureaucrat. I'm not a person
who's his life and career has been in government. My
career has been in business, and I think my frame
of reference will help. I talked about specific things that
I wanted to do with the permitting process, but you know,
(41:55):
I expect to try to change the whole perspective of
this city from supporting its citizens as opposed to ruling
over them. As I see North Las Vegas and Henderson
growing and Las Vegas seeming stuck, I recognize that's that's caused.
(42:16):
It's caused by our own making, and I'm hoping to
free the reins to be able to allow us to
flourish and blossom. Now, something that really concerns me that
weaves right into this is that forty years ago, eighty
five percent of thirty five year olds owned a home
(42:38):
in the United States. Now thirty five year olds, it's
about twelve percent of them are able to own a home.
And that crisis is horrific to me. And having home
ownership become unattainable for like my kids, or for our
citizens or people who work here, that's something that I
(43:00):
would like to help address. I have some very specific
plans to implement, which I hope I could talk to
you both about at our town hall coming up.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Okay, and so I want to thank our guests this evening,
doctor David Marlin of Vegas Stronger for joining us this evening. Dave,
do you have any final thoughts or comments or is
there any contact information you want to leave for your
campaign both.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
I want to point out that November tenth, in a
week is the United States Marine Course two hundred and
fiftieth birthday. Oorah. I'm grateful that my wife served for
eight years and our son, he's in his fifth year
of the Marines, currently stationed in New Orleans. Hey Tristan.
If you want to reach out to me, I'm on
(43:46):
all different social media platforms, David Marlin or you could
go to Vegastronger dot org or day four Vegas dot com.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
And we want to thank our callers this evening, Nancy Roker,
our ro host, and Frank Free. We want to also
thank our loyal listeners who make it a priority to
tune into twel every Monday evening. We appreciate your support
and encouragement. God bless you and God bless America.
Speaker 5 (44:19):
Dah who got no way to prove it?
Speaker 9 (44:21):
Some baby, I'm lying, but I'm only human, after all,
I'm only huge man after all, don't.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Put your blame on me. Don't put your blame on me.
Speaker 9 (44:39):
Take a look in the mirror.
Speaker 5 (44:41):
God, do you see him? Did you see it? You
allow you to see him?
Speaker 9 (44:47):
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