While Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson might approve of Gary Kreep‘s recent PAC-tivities, inasmuch as they redound to the detriment of competitor MGM Mirage, he’s not behind them. Or, to put it another way, if Adelson’s been involved it would have to be in extremely stealthy and incremental fashion. Since “stealth” and “Adelson” are mutually exclusive terms, we’re probably safe to clear his name in l’affaire Dubai. Besides, whatever you thought of Adelson’s defunct Freedom’s Watch PAC, its ads always had solid production values … unlike the low-budget Kreep-helmed crudities currently going viral across the Internet.
Although Kreep’s PAC has aided a couple of candidates (Florida senatorial aspirant Marco Rubio, as well as Rep. Duncan D. Hunter) who are inimical to tribal-casino interests, it doesn’t have enough of a track record at first glance to demonstrate a wider anti-gambling animus. However — and for whatever reason — MGM is clearly the primary target and the latest findings on Stanley Ho are about to lobbed into the fray. To give him his due, Kreep has found a couple of loopholes in NRS 463 that give some of his claims regarding Dubai World‘s licensing in Nevada a veneer of “truthiness.”
If you tug on the threads of PAC prexy Kreep’s cloak, up pops something called the Family Values Coalition — not to be confused with Mike Huckabee‘s Faith and Family Values Coalition. Kreep’s old outfit now only turns up as an oft-cited line in a resumé but it left behind a reputation for pushing a paternalistic ideology and allegedly morphed into this homophobic entity. (Cohort Floyd Brown has occasionally dabbled at mixing politics and religion, as well as acting as an investment adviser.) If we ever get to the heart of this labyrinth, what we appear likeliest to find is an anti-gambling crusade piggybacking onto Nevada politics.
P.S.: Damn Kreep and Brown both for taking up time I’d rather have spent plowing through the latest Hard Rock Hotel financials. Now there’s a mess for you.
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“Damn Kreep and Brown both for taking up time I’d rather have spent plowing through the latest Hard Rock Hotel financials. Now there’s a mess for you.”
Hear, hear! As I was thinking about it more, I also realized that not even Sheldon Adelson would want to touch this garbage. It does more harm than help to the GOoPers, and I’m sure Reid’s folks would LOVE to see Floyd Brown continue to bash Nevada’s biggest employers (and get them to rough up Brown some more).
And yes, I’d also much rather be looking at what’s going on with HRH, the last of the MGM AC/Macau drama, and Wynn glamming up Switch Beach Club than hear any more about Floyd Brown and his craptastic ads.
And btw, my condolences to former HRH President Randy Kwasniewski.
I followed all the links…
Excuse me, I have to go now. My eyes are dirty.
I’ve not been keeping up with the Switch switch (pardon the pun), although I’m sure Vegas Tripping must be keeping pace with it. Maybe I just don’t like thinking about the solarium that got torn out to make room for a nightclub. Steve Wynn’s has a fiduciary duty to make money but it’s too bad it had to happen this way.
Upon reflection, it occurred to me that Sheldon Adelson might be feeling MGM Mirage’s pain. A couple of Adelson-supported candidates went down to defeat in the last election cycle in a similar guilt-by-association scenario. Evangelical groups dive-bombed the airwaves with ads lambasting the candidates for taking money from a — gasp! — casino owner who did business in “atheistic Communist China.” So he’s felt the tar brush himself.
Oh! You progressive wankers, you purveyors of corporate responsibility who are waiting to lunge upon the slightest corporate misdeed now come to the defense of the \socialist jihadi\ Reid even though it is proven by Kreep that Reid became the spokesman for a slave owner, a despotic ruler who beheads homosexuals and stones philandering teens. To defend MGM for sleeping with a slave master, and to laud Reid who \went to bat\ for the despot Mohammed to save him hundreds of millions of dollars at taxpayers’ expense AND get him a gaming license is repugnant. Reid is a corpse candidate and the voters of Nevada get to the the PM.