Las Vegas mayor won't give businesses social distancing guidelines for reopening: 'They better figure it out. That's their job'

Las Vegas' mayor repeatedly called for local businesses to reopen while refusing to provide social distancing guidelines. 'For a restaurant to be open or a small boutique to be open, they better figure it out. That's their job. That's not the mayor's job.'

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman on Wednesday repeatedly called for the city's businesses to reopen while refusing to provide any social distancing guidelines on how to do so safely.

"I am not a private owner. That's the competition in this country. The free enterprise and to be able to make sure that what you offer the public meets the needs of the public," Goodman, an independent, told CNN's Anderson Cooper."Right now, we're in a crisis health-wise, and so for a restaurant to be open or a small boutique to be open, they better figure it out. That's their job. That's not the mayor's job.

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