{"id":2502,"date":"2010-03-10T13:40:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T21:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2022-10-06T06:28:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:28:12","slug":"wynn-on-the-defensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wynn-on-the-defensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Wynn on the defensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Steve Wynn<\/strong> hasn&#8217;t done his homework on the tortured history of <strong>Foxwoods<\/strong>&#8216; vagabond casino project and if his aides at <strong>Wynn Resorts<\/strong> tried to bring him up to speed, they&#8217;ve obviously failed miserably. Still &#8212; and quite understandably &#8212; chafing from a <em>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> editorial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/opinion\/85934317.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">that was dopey<\/a> and flirted with anti-Semitism, Wynn takes it out<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> on reporter <strong>Jennifer Lin<\/strong>. (Egad! That&#8217;s a horrible freeze-frame, isn&#8217;t it?)<\/p>\n<p>If Wynn continues to wade into <strong>Pennsylvania<\/strong>&#8216;s treacherous political waters with so little knowledge of the backstory of the casino he&#8217;s trying to rescue, it suggests he&#8217;s not taking the project as seriously as he ought. He might want to start with the <strong>Penn-Praxis<\/strong> report that has the endorsement of Mayor <strong>Michael Nutter<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve read it and can vouch that it&#8217;s time well spent.<\/p>\n<p>(Special thanks to <strong>Ian Sutton<\/strong> for the video link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Wynn hasn&#8217;t done his homework on the tortured history of Foxwoods&#8216; vagabond casino project and if his aides at Wynn Resorts tried to bring him up to speed, they&#8217;ve obviously failed miserably. Still &#8212; and quite understandably &#8212; chafing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wynn-on-the-defensive\/\">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":[65,95,33,32,20,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502"}],"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=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31722,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions\/31722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}