In Nevada‘s Nye County, 70% of the electorate voted to elect a dead pimp to the Nevada Assembly. I guess this means that the GOP is going to have to unearth Dennis Hof‘s rotting corpse and prop it up in a statehouse chair this spring. Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth …
Chalk up two more wins for the Culinary Union, which finally was able to hammer out deals with Derek Stevens‘ Golden Gate and The D. No details were made public, the contracts are tentative, blah, blah, blah. You know the drill. It took a while but the Culinary has every casino it negotiated with in the fold, 33 in all. Well done.
* Did you know poker is illegal in Israel? I sure didn’t. Likud Party member Sharren Haskel has introduced legislation to legitimize the sport. As things stand now, if you’re caught playing poker you can be sentenced to a year in the pokey. And if you’re a tournament organizer they throw the book at you: three years in the slammer. Supreme Court Judge Neal Hendel recently opined, “The fact that the players go to contests and tournaments year after year strengthens the conclusion that it is not a game of luck.” Passage of Haskel’s bill would mean that Israeli poker virtuosi Timur Margolin and Amir Lehavot could play in their own country. But where does Sheldon Adelson stand on the issue and will the Knesset listen to him?
70% voted for Hof so that the Commission would be allowed to choose the person to send to the assembly. You probably could have written that without the aristocratic *sniff*.