{"id":15511,"date":"2015-02-12T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T23:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=15511"},"modified":"2015-02-12T15:28:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T23:28:42","slug":"quote-of-the-day-617","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-617\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>PokerStars<\/strong> is one of the only gaming companies that has been actively committed to pursuing a position in the <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong> market. Everybody else is running away.\u00a0So, why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Blofeld.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Blofeld-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"Macau Sands New Casino\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Blofeld-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Blofeld-145x150.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Blofeld.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a>would we rebuff a company that wants to make a major investment in Atlantic City while everybody else is sort of backing off? I just don&#8217;t understand it.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Unite-Here Local 54<\/strong> President <strong>Robert McDevitt<\/strong>, questioning the inability of PokerStars to get a <strong>New Jersey<\/strong> gaming license and adding his voice to those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/christie-accused-of-blocking-casino-deal-for-adelson-2015-2\" target=\"_blank\">suggesting a cabal<\/a> between presidential wannabe Gov. <strong>Chris Christie<\/strong> (R) and the latter&#8217;s Daddy Warbucks, <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>. The ties between Adelson and Christie<\/em> do <em>run deep<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;PokerStars is one of the only gaming companies that has been actively committed to pursuing a position in the Atlantic City market. Everybody else is running away.\u00a0So, why would we rebuff a company that wants to make a major investment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-617\/\">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":[23,37,178,33,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15511"}],"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=15511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15513,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15511\/revisions\/15513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}