{"id":13461,"date":"2014-04-25T14:19:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T22:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=13461"},"modified":"2014-04-25T14:19:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T22:19:29","slug":"this-just-in-seminole-deal-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/this-just-in-seminole-deal-near\/","title":{"rendered":"This just in: Seminole deal near?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rick-scott.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5518\" alt=\"rick-scott\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rick-scott.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rick-scott.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rick-scott-119x150.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>Someone &#8220;close to the negotiations&#8221; for a new tribal gaming compact in Florida tells <strong>The Associated Press<\/strong> the Gov. <strong>Rick Scott<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/cdcgamingreports.com\/fla-seminoles-near-new-gambling-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">is feeling out legislative leaders about holding a special session in May<\/a>. The reason: A new state\/<strong>Seminole Tribe<\/strong> deal. We&#8217;re told something&#8217;s on the table because Lt. Gov. <strong>Carlos Lopez-Cantera<\/strong> (R) met with state Senate President <strong>Don Gaetz<\/strong> (R) about a mooted Seminole agreement. Gaetz, however, is in the dark as to the compact&#8217;s particulars.\u00a0Scott&#8217;s spokesman, however, flatly says, &#8220;There is no deal,&#8221; and the Seminoles are keeping mum. A May special session would come at a tricky time because that is also when Scott will be picking and choosing those parts of the <strong>Florida<\/strong> budget of which he approves. An expanded Seminole contract would <!--more-->give him extra spending flexibility. And while other states are dealing with saturated, shrinking casino markets, Florida&#8217;s gambling revenue has grown in the last two years. It would seem advisable for Scott to double down on Seminole gaming, with its certain revenue figures, not go fishing for a better deal in the more-volatile private sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone &#8220;close to the negotiations&#8221; for a new tribal gaming compact in Florida tells The Associated Press the Gov. Rick Scott is feeling out legislative leaders about holding a special session in May. The reason: A new state\/Seminole Tribe deal. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/this-just-in-seminole-deal-near\/\">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":[36,31,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461"}],"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=13461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13462,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13461\/revisions\/13462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}