{"id":16521,"date":"2015-07-31T12:33:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T20:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=16521"},"modified":"2015-07-31T12:33:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T20:33:55","slug":"adelson-push-stuck-in-the-mud-alabama-wants-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/adelson-push-stuck-in-the-mud-alabama-wants-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelson push stuck in the mud?; Alabama wants gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tireless blogger Steve Ruddock<\/strong> contends that we have good reason to be optimistic about the fate of Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>‘s fatwa<\/em> against \"Sheldon_Adelson<\/a>Internet<\/strong> gambling. For starters, there’s the sheer slothfulness<\/a> of Congress<\/strong> itself: How many times has it promised, say, comprehensive immigration reform and delivered squat? Besides, Adelson’s congressional flunkies have moved off Restoring America’s Wire Act<\/strong> (“a beached whale,” according to a GOP lobbyist)\u00a0and are trying the more oblique route of freezing state-by-state legalization — which still raises vexing Tenth Amendment<\/strong> questions — while conducting a fan dance “study” of the issue<\/a>. You can bet they wouldn’t be advocating going the study route unless the conclusion, forged by Luddites<\/a>, were foregone. One attempt to sneak it through as a parasite on omnibus legislation has already failed<\/a>.<\/p>\n