David McKee

Sheldon Adelson is fast becoming the #1 buttinski in American politics. He’s not from Florida and doesn’t do business there
but that hasn’t stopped him from meddling the state’s electoral process. He’s been seeding an astroturf movement to defeat the use of medicinal marijuana. A constitutional amendment to approve medical pot is on the November ballot and Nanny Sheldon wants to see it go down. Of the Drug Free Florida Committee‘s $2.7 million war chest, $2.5 million comes from the CEO of Las Vegas Sands. Wire services report that “[Sarah] Bascom’s group maintains that the medical marijuana measure has a loophole that will allow people to obtain marijuana for nearly any reason,” even though the Florida Supreme Court has rejected that as a pig in a poke. No doubt we will soon be hearing from Sheldon about marijuana being a “gateway drug” and producing a generation of addicts. Since he’s married to an drug-abuse specialist, Adelson ought to know better. And, as a former addict himself (albeit of the legitimate, prescription kind), Sheldon might want to look to the beam in his eye rather than the mote in Florida’s. Either way, he should stick to doing what he does best — develop high-class casino resorts — and stop telling Americans how to live their lives.

Atlantic City’s budget just sprang another leak. We don’t know how the city is going to make ends meet, considering all the property tax give-backs that the courts are handing down. The latest payday was for Continue reading →