{"id":30459,"date":"2021-12-12T09:45:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T17:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=30459"},"modified":"2023-09-18T13:15:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:15:53","slug":"rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejected!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Louisiana_Flag.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7958\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">It&#8217;s been a rough winter for <strong>Peninsula Pacific<\/strong>. First it narrowly lost a plebiscite in <strong>Richmond<\/strong>, <strong>Virginia<\/strong>. Then, on Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/lailluminator.com\/2021\/12\/11\/st-tammany-parish-rejects-slidell-casino-proposal\/\">it got body-slammed<\/a> by voters in <strong>Louisiana<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>St. Tammany Parish<\/strong>, who turned out in droves to vote down a proposed casino in a landslide, with 63% balloting &#8220;nay.&#8221; Peninsula Pacific, owner of the <strong>Diamond Jacks<\/strong> license from <strong>Shreveport<\/strong>, had made a very &#8220;george&#8221; offer, including a $352 million casino and lots of upfront money for the community. But they ill-judged the dynamics of the <strong>Slidell<\/strong> area, where the mayor and leading local officials wanted nothing to do with Peninsula Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One person who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdcgamingreports.com\/full-house-emphasizes-expansions-and-upgrades\/\">saw this coming<\/a> a mile off was <strong>Full House Resorts<\/strong> CEO <strong>Dan Lee<\/strong>, he of the <strong>Silver Slipper<\/strong> in <strong>Biloxi<\/strong>: &#8220;Full House-commissioned polling, he said, showed Diamond Jacks losing &#8216;by a very wide margin.&#8217; He said the Slidell area is very conservative and heavily Republican, filled with people who had fled <strong>New Orleans<\/strong> &#8216;to get away from things like casinos.'&#8221; The real winner in all this is not Full House, however, but<strong> Churchill Downs<\/strong>, whose <strong>Fair Grounds<\/strong> track is the nearest gaming facility to Slidell. They just dodged a bullet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a rough winter for Peninsula Pacific. First it narrowly lost a plebiscite in Richmond, Virginia. Then, on Saturday, it got body-slammed by voters in Louisiana&#8216;s St. Tammany Parish, who turned out in droves to vote down a proposed casino in a landslide, with 63% balloting &#8220;nay.&#8221; Peninsula Pacific, owner of the Diamond Jacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83928,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1728],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}