{"id":13840,"date":"2014-06-17T10:55:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T18:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=13840"},"modified":"2014-06-17T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T18:55:34","slug":"quote-of-the-day-575","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-575\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Iowa-seal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Iowa-seal.jpg\" alt=\"Iowa seal\" width=\"224\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Iowa-seal.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Iowa-seal-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>\u201cIt amazes me that they keep pushing, but you\u2019re always going to have investors that want more casinos and the government people will say hurray, hurray more tax money. They\u2019re going to drain the local economy.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>UNLV<\/strong> professor of public policy <strong>William Thompson<\/strong>, on the <strong>Iowa Racing &amp; Gaming Commission<\/strong>&#8216;s approval of <strong>Wild Rose Jefferson<\/strong> casino. <a href=\"http:\/\/cdcgamingreports.com\/iowa-gambling-regulators-ponder-casino-moratorium\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Confronted with evidence of 7% cannibalization<\/a> of <strong>Prairie Meadows Racetrack<\/strong>, IRGC Chairman Jeff Lamberti airily proclaimed the racino &#8220;will be just fine.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt amazes me that they keep pushing, but you\u2019re always going to have investors that want more casinos and the government people will say hurray, hurray more tax money. They\u2019re going to drain the local economy.\u201d &#8212; UNLV professor of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-575\/\">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":[14,86,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840"}],"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=13840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13841,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840\/revisions\/13841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}