{"id":19653,"date":"2017-04-24T07:45:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=19653"},"modified":"2023-02-09T04:44:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T12:44:49","slug":"quote-of-the-day-812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-812\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Water rights are civil rights, and civil rights are human rights. This is <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14856\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/christie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/christie.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/christie-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>not a money problem. This is a democracy problem. <strong>Flint<\/strong>, <strong>Michigan<\/strong>, is a moral parable about the peril of giving up control of your water.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>NAACP<\/strong> President <strong>Cornell Brooks<\/strong>, warning <strong>New Jersey<\/strong> Gov. <strong>Chris Christie<\/strong> (R) against selling <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong>&#8216;s water authority for quick cash. In other news, Christie said <strong>Revel<\/strong> owner <strong>Glenn Straub<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/business\/national-business\/article145883744.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">should get a gaming license<\/a>, like all other casino owners, or get out of town.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Water rights are civil rights, and civil rights are human rights. This is not a money problem. This is a democracy problem. Flint, Michigan, is a moral parable about the peril of giving up control of your water.&#8221; &#8212; NAACP &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-812\/\">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":[23,117,185,157],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19653"}],"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=19653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32322,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19653\/revisions\/32322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}