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Posted At : August 18, 2009 03:42 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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It's all over for Mike Ensign. The former COO of Circus Circus Enterprises has seen his Prairie Sky casino consortium drop-kicked from consideration for a Kansas casino. That's right; a Lakes Entertainment bid that is hedging its bets by vacillating between two sites and entered the running without having financing in hand is moving on to the semi-final round. (So is Foxwoods Development.) And Ensign? He gets a seat in the bleachers.
True, Kansas Lottery Executive Director Ed Van Petten said Ensign Sr.'s payment of 96 dimes' worth of hush money to his son's mistress "not an issue to us at all." He added, inaccurately, "There hasn't been any allegation of wrongdoing at all." So Van Petten either doesn't read the papers or ... say, did I ever tell you about this great bridge in Brooklyn I'm selling? No money down, adjustable-rate mortgage, the whole nine yards.
Even if Van Petten's on the level, the Kansas Racing & Gaming Commission had promised "a full background investigation" of the winner. (Translation: "We're going to be crawling up your sphincter.") So even if the Prairie Sky project had surmounted the next two hurdles, Mike Ensign would have eventually had to explain his generous subsidy of Sen. John Ensign's bedroom adventures.
It's going to be tough for Dad to spin this one. Either he lost out on merit to a comparative small-timer like Lyle Berman or his enabling of Johnny Casino's hide-the-salami antics got him kicked to the curb. Which is the less humiliating narrative?
When the chattering classes began predicting l'affaire Hampton would be the end of an Ensign's career, I'll wager they had a different Ensign in mind. Oh, and thanks for dragging the industry into the mud with you, sir. Let's hope there are no more $96,000 shoes still to fall.
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