{"id":18677,"date":"2016-08-10T10:19:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T18:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=18677"},"modified":"2016-08-10T10:19:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T18:19:46","slug":"18677","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/18677\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everybody including <strong>Twin River<\/strong>, the competitor across the border 17 miles away in <strong>Rhode Island<\/strong>, projected that <strong>Penn<\/strong> [<strong>National Gaming<\/strong>] would do more than it&#8217;s been <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Crosby.jpg\" alt=\"Crosby\" width=\"155\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Crosby.jpg 155w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Crosby-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/>doing. Exactly why it isn&#8217;t, nobody&#8217;s quite sure. Whether it&#8217;s that you can&#8217;t smoke or you have to be 21, we don&#8217;t know for sure what it is &#8230;\u00a0<strong>Plainridge<\/strong> [<strong>Park<\/strong>] has about 500 jobs, about 20% of those people were hired off the unemployment rolls, and Plainridge has generated $80-plus million in tax revenue.\u00a0From the standpoint of the negative consequences, there have been no serious traffic problems since the first day, we have a very careful study done of any crime of any kind in all of the surrounding communities &#8230; there has been zero increase in crime in the first six months owing to the casino.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Massachusetts Gaming Commission<\/strong> Chairman <strong>Stephen Crosby<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowellsun.com\/breakingnews\/ci_30225337\/gambling-chief-said-state-will-win-big-from\" target=\"_blank\">projecting $300 million in annual revenue<\/a> for the commonwealth of <strong>Massachusetts<\/strong> when all the state&#8217;s casinos are open<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everybody including Twin River, the competitor across the border 17 miles away in Rhode Island, projected that Penn [National Gaming] would do more than it&#8217;s been doing. Exactly why it isn&#8217;t, nobody&#8217;s quite sure. Whether it&#8217;s that you can&#8217;t smoke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/18677\/\">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":[14,189,112,69,141,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677"}],"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=18677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18679,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677\/revisions\/18679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}