William McCurdy II still keeps signs from his 2014 bid to become College of Southern Nevada’s student body president, his first successful race before winning subsequent ones for the Legislature and Clark County Commission, where he currently serves. His father was his chief political strategist throughout it all. “He was my greatest adviser,” McCurdy II told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “He taught me so much about the political system.” William O’Neill McCurdy Sr., a longtime pastor, civil servant and prolific advocate for his cherished Las Vegas Historic Westside neighborhood, died last month. He was 75. Southern Nevada politicos remembered him as a shrewd, no-nonsense consultant who helped some of them win their seats. U.S. House honors Officials, including Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley and U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., swiftly lionized the pastor after his March 20 death. Two Democratic members of Nevada’s congressional delegation took to the U.S. House floor to highlight his legacy. “Mr.…