{"id":16034,"date":"2015-05-11T12:21:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T20:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=16034"},"modified":"2015-05-12T09:28:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T17:28:38","slug":"pence-ultimately-gets-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/pence-ultimately-gets-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence ultimately gets it right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/WDRB.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=388091;hostDomain=www.wdrb.com;playerWidth=450;playerHeight=253;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11479137;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><a title=\"WDRB 41 Louisville News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wdrb.com\">WDRB 41 Louisville News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After months of <strong>Hamlet<\/strong>-worthy public agonizing, <strong>Indiana<\/strong> Gov. <strong>Mike Pence<\/strong> (R) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdrb.com\/story\/29023572\/indiana-riverboat-casinos-now-allowed-to-build-on-land\" target=\"_blank\">did the right thing by doing nothing<\/a>. Satisfied that it was not his never-defined &#8220;expansion&#8221; of gambling, he decided to let a casino-reform bill that enjoyed heavy legislative support become law without his signature. One could fume about <!--more-->the weeks of pointless drama queenery or be thankful that the important thing got done. Pence&#8217;s passivity will translate into economic stimulus and permit Indiana&#8217;s casino industry to become state of the art. One important, possibly decisive concession made by legislators was to postpone live dealers at the state&#8217;s two racinos until 2021. So it was a &#8220;win&#8221; for the state&#8217;s riverboats and at best a &#8220;push&#8221; for the racinos. But the vast majority of Indiana casinos can now move into the 21st century &#8212; as well as onto <em>terra firma<\/em> &#8212; and that&#8217;s an outcome worthy of acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>As for the fear of casinos in <strong>Kentucky<\/strong>, they&#8217;ve supposedly been just around the corner for eight years now, so take a chill pill, <strong>Ed Clere<\/strong>. And &#8220;continuing and increased competition&#8221; is what some of us would call the free market. Get used to it. In <em>that<\/em> scenario, doing nothing is not the answer.<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>&#8216;s rambling and pejorative testimony during recent <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> court hearings may have done more than paint him in an unflattering tone. His witness-stand statements conflict with internal <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> documents which suggest that the company knew more about the role of <strong>Macao<\/strong> triads in the junket business than Adelson would care to let on. The probing\u00a0of the <strong>University of California-Berkeley<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Investigative Reporting Program<\/strong> casts a harsh light on the workings of Adelson HQ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WDRB 41 Louisville News After months of Hamlet-worthy public agonizing, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) did the right thing by doing nothing. Satisfied that it was not his never-defined &#8220;expansion&#8221; of gambling, he decided to let a casino-reform bill that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/pence-ultimately-gets-it-right\/\">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":[14,68,116,62,33,111,25,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034"}],"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=16034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16038,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16034\/revisions\/16038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}