Las Vegas Sun  March 14, 2014   Romney says he prevented
Massachusetts from becoming ‘the Las Vegas of gay marriage’
Mona Shield Payne  Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney
delivers his victory speech at the Nevada Republican caucus
Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, at the Red Rock Hotel and Casino in
Las Vegas.  Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney
rallies supporters as he speaks at the Nevada Republican caucus
Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, at the Red Rock Hotel and Casino in Las
Vegas.   WASHINGTON -- In an effort to win over the Republican
values voters, Mitt Romney is invoking Sin City and billing
himself as the only candidate “severely conservative” enough to
keep such horrors from spreading.  "On my watch we fought hard
and prevented Massachusetts from becoming the Las Vegas of gay
marriage," Romney told a gathering at this year’s CPAC
conference in Washington, D.C., Friday.  Romney was governor of
Massachusetts -- “a deep blue state” as he likes to remind
people -- when that state became the first