{"id":16065,"date":"2015-05-14T13:40:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T21:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=16065"},"modified":"2015-05-14T13:40:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T21:40:51","slug":"quote-of-the-day-631","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-631\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Wisconsin-state-seal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Wisconsin-state-seal.jpg\" alt=\"Wisconsin state seal\" width=\"218\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Wisconsin-state-seal.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Wisconsin-state-seal-141x150.jpg 141w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>\u201c<strong>Wisconsin<\/strong> cannot have it both ways.\u00a0The state must entirely prohibit poker within its borders if it wants to prevent the [<strong>Ho-Chunk<\/strong>] <strong>Nation<\/strong> or any other Indian tribe from offering poker on the tribe\u2019s sovereign lands. When the state decriminalized hosting poker for taverns, it could no longer deny that game to tribes as a matter of federal law.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals<\/strong> Chief Judge <strong>Diane Wood<\/strong>, handing a victory to the <strong>National Indian Gaming Commission<\/strong> and the Ho-Chunk tribe, <a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/jacksoncochronicle\/news\/local\/ho-chunk-can-offer-video-poker-at-madison-casino-appeals\/article_952658d7-b8b9-562c-9f95-0f4dab01b801.html\" target=\"_blank\">and a defeat to\u00a0Wisconsin&#8217;s attempts<\/a> to strip the tribe of its video poker machines<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWisconsin cannot have it both ways.\u00a0The state must entirely prohibit poker within its borders if it wants to prevent the [Ho-Chunk] Nation or any other Indian tribe from offering poker on the tribe\u2019s sovereign lands. When the state decriminalized hosting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-631\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16065"}],"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=16065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16066,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16065\/revisions\/16066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}