{"id":223,"date":"2009-10-05T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/10\/5\/Want-your-ass-kicked"},"modified":"2021-10-01T07:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:22:37","slug":"want-your-ass-kicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/want-your-ass-kicked\/","title":{"rendered":"Want your ass kicked?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Then go hang out at Stack<\/strong><\/a>. If they don’t like your looks, the in-house goons will be sicced on you<\/a>. And Las Vegans wonder at the schadenfreude<\/em> so many people feel with regard to Sin City’s current doldrums.<\/p>\n

No magic bullet<\/strong>. Liberalization of casino rules in Colorado<\/strong> will raise considerably less revenue than expected<\/a>. Whoever made the projections that are now coming up 60% short obviously didn’t take the recession into account.<\/p>\n

Opposition grows<\/strong>. An effort by Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn<\/strong> to saturate the state with video gambling devices is encountering widening opposition. Chicago <\/strong>suburbs Evanston<\/strong> and Naperville<\/strong> are among the areas that have nixed the prospect of slot routes.<\/p>\n

Don’t like our roads<\/strong>? Mail your thanks to Gov. Jim Gibbons<\/strong>, who just got his knuckles rapped<\/a> by the chairman of the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure<\/strong> for laggard deployment of federal highway funds. It’s pretty slow around Carson City<\/strong> once the Lege decamps, so what’s Midnight Jim’s excuse this time?<\/p>\n

Sanity 1, Drunks 0<\/strong>. A trio of boozing bozos who rampaged through Buffalo Bill’s<\/strong> before piling their car into a ditch can’t sue MGM Mirage<\/strong> for their own asshattery, Nevada’s high court rules<\/a>. Since they were drunk off their asses and getting into fights, the trio of boozehounds maintained, casino management had an obligation to keep them on-property … presumably so they could have continued terrorizing other patrons and otherwise letting the good times roll. In an unrelated victory for common sense, it is no longer a crime in South Carolina<\/strong> to play poker in the privacy of your own home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keystone stalemate<\/strong>. Casino owners like Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> who have gone ahead with preparations to add table games will soon be rewarded — but not until endless legislative machinations play out. House Democrats appear to be backing off a 34% tax rate<\/a> for tables (J.P. Morgan<\/strong> reports that leadership is now floating a 21% figure) and may even come down to the 12% rate favored by their GOP colleagues. The $10 million upfront fee, though, appears to be a done deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All that said, solons managed to spend much of a special weekend session dickering over matters that ought to be none of their business. Like: Should casinos be allowed to serve free drinks to their patrons? Or: Can they operate on Christmas? Now, nothing sounds more depressing than spending Christmas Day at Harrah’s Chester<\/strong>, but aren’t these matters that ought to be the prerogative of the individual casino owner? Also, ostensibly pro-business Republicans wanted to put table games before the voters, which could render the whole legislative exercise moot … and relief can’t come soon enough<\/a> for racinos like Penn National Gaming<\/strong>‘s Hollywood Casino<\/strong>, which is starting to slash its payroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Then go hang out at Stack. If they don’t like your looks, the in-house goons will be sicced on you. And Las Vegans wonder at the schadenfreude so many people feel with regard to Sin City’s current doldrums. No magic … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18,26,7,58,11,69,95,12,130,31,9,19,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"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=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22449,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/22449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}