{"id":11011,"date":"2013-06-21T17:36:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T01:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2013-06-21T17:37:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T01:37:41","slug":"wynn-everett-a-slam-dunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wynn-everett-a-slam-dunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Wynn Everett a slam dunk?; Caesars In(ter)active"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1464\" title=\"Steve Wynn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Steve-Wynn-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Steve-Wynn-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Steve-Wynn-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Steve-Wynn.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/>It&#8217;s looking that way. Amounts donated by <strong>Wynn Resorts<\/strong> and Wynn affiliates toward this weekend&#8217;s referendum: $465,000. Amount spent in opposition: $0. That&#8217;s right, nothing.\u00a0<strong>Steve Wynn<\/strong> has also been careful not to stir up potential anti-casino ire by avoiding media buys, <a href=\"http:\/\/cdcgamingreports.com\/wynn-bankrolls-casino-push-in-everett\/?utm_source=The+Flash+-+June+20%2C+2013&amp;utm_campaign=Flash+-+June+7%2C+2013&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">going instead with a door-to-door persuasion strategy<\/a>. It appears as though Wynn&#8217;s low-key approach will be rewarded with a big victory in <strong>Massachusetts<\/strong> this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Nevada<\/strong>, approved, would-be operators of <strong>Internet <\/strong>casinos have a six-month window in which to get up and running. Failing that, they can be granted waivers by the <strong>Nevada Gaming Commission<\/strong>. This was recently done for several companies, which wouldn&#8217;t be newsworthy were one of them not <strong>Caesars Interactive<\/strong>. It&#8217;s more important to do this right than do it first. Still, given the years of preparation Caesars has put into the eventuality of U.S. online gambling, it&#8217;s surprising to see it having so much difficulty getting out of the starting blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s looking that way. Amounts donated by Wynn Resorts and Wynn affiliates toward this weekend&#8217;s referendum: $465,000. Amount spent in opposition: $0. That&#8217;s right, nothing.\u00a0Steve Wynn has also been careful not to stir up potential anti-casino ire by avoiding media &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wynn-everett-a-slam-dunk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,26,7,37,112,25,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11013,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions\/11013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}