{"id":14866,"date":"2014-10-28T09:12:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=14866"},"modified":"2014-10-28T09:12:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:12:43","slug":"freeman-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/freeman-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeman strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"253\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AdUSJaKUAuE?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AdUSJaKUAuE?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest chapter in <strong>American Gaming Association<\/strong> President <strong>Geoff Freeman<\/strong>&#8216;s charm offensive: an election-season ad push targeting a few key markets. One can certainly understand why these spots are running in <strong>Boston<\/strong>, even <strong>Dover<\/strong> (where the horseracing industry wants subsidies) or in <strong>Indianapolis<\/strong> (where casinos are pushing to move ashore). But why Freeman is buying ad time in <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> boggles the mind. There&#8217;s nothing relevant on the ballot and gambling is so fully accepted into the social fabric that he&#8217;s just preaching to the converted. It seems a waste of money that could be better spent in other jurisdictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest chapter in American Gaming Association President Geoff Freeman&#8216;s charm offensive: an election-season ad push targeting a few key markets. One can certainly understand why these spots are running in Boston, even Dover (where the horseracing industry wants &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/freeman-strikes-again\/\">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":[164,174,68,53,112,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866"}],"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=14866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14867,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14866\/revisions\/14867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}