{"id":1926,"date":"2010-01-15T11:34:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T19:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2010-01-20T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T21:31:53","slug":"quote-of-the-day-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-106\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1927\" title=\"gibbons_dennis_hmed_10a.h2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/gibbons_dennis_hmed_10a.h2-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"gibbons_dennis_hmed_10a.h2\" width=\"260\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/gibbons_dennis_hmed_10a.h2-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/gibbons_dennis_hmed_10a.h2-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/gibbons_dennis_hmed_10a.h2.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>&#8220;Therefore, it is imperative that you encourage <strong>President Obama<\/strong> to publicly acknowledge that Las Vegas and all of <strong>Nevada<\/strong> is a wonderful place for business or pleasure and that Americans should visit and conduct business in Nevada.&#8221; &#8212; <em>demand made by Gov. <strong>Jim Gibbons<\/strong>, in a letter to Sen. <strong>Harry Reid<\/strong> (D-NV). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/blogs\/ralstons-flash\/2010\/jan\/15\/gibbons-mayors-casino-owners-lets-force-president-\/\" target=\"_blank\">A pathetic rant<\/a>, even by Gibbons&#8217; standards, it displays ignorance of why, for instance,<\/em> &#8220;room occupancy levels continue to decline with each passing month.&#8221; <em>(Here&#8217;s a clue; it&#8217;s called &#8220;room inventory,&#8221; sir.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Midnight Jim<\/strong> also gets wrong the number of months of consecutive decline in gambling revenue and fixates upon October&#8217;s low numbers, not November&#8217;s surprising (and reassuring) upturn. Consistent increases in visitation &#8212; particularly from the <strong>California<\/strong> market that Gibbons has deemed to be of paramount importance &#8212; are also ignored. Lastly, Midnight Jim, is you&#8217;re so het up about nearly two years of decline in casino taxes and 33 months of decaying retail sales, why do you continue to promote a budgetary system that is two-thirds predicated on those (clearly unreliable) sources of revenue?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230; crickets &#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Therefore, it is imperative that you encourage President Obama to publicly acknowledge that Las Vegas and all of Nevada is a wonderful place for business or pleasure and that Americans should visit and conduct business in Nevada.&#8221; &#8212; demand made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-106\/\">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":[34,133,28,14,26,52,137,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926"}],"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=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}