{"id":2603,"date":"2010-03-17T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T23:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2020-06-16T04:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T12:41:00","slug":"exonerating-adelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/exonerating-adelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Exonerating Adelson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sheldon-adelson_170x170\"While Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> CEO Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> might approve of Gary Kreep<\/strong>‘s recent PAC-tivities, inasmuch as they redound to the detriment of competitor MGM Mirage<\/strong>, he’s not behind them. Or, to put it another way, if Adelson’s been involved it would have to be in extremely stealthy and incremental fashion<\/a>. Since “stealth” and “Adelson” are mutually exclusive terms, we’re probably safe to clear his name in l’affaire<\/em> Dubai<\/strong>. Besides, whatever you thought of Adelson’s defunct Freedom’s Watch<\/strong> PAC, its ads always had solid production values … unlike the low-budget Kreep-helmed crudities currently going viral across the Internet.<\/p>\n

Although Kreep’s PAC has aided a couple of candidates<\/a> (Florida senatorial aspirant Marco Rubio<\/strong>, as well as Rep. Duncan D. Hunter<\/strong>) who are inimical to tribal-casino interests, it doesn’t have enough of a track record at first glance to demonstrate a wider anti-gambling animus. However — and for whatever reason — MGM is clearly the primary target and the latest findings on Stanley Ho<\/strong> are about to lobbed into the fray<\/a>. To give him his due, Kreep has found a couple of loopholes in NRS 463<\/strong><\/a> that give some of his claims regarding Dubai World<\/strong>‘s licensing in Nevada<\/strong> a veneer of “truthiness.”<\/p>\n

If you tug on the threads of PAC prexy Kreep’s cloak, up pops something<\/a> called the Family Values Coalition<\/strong> — not to be confused with Mike Huckabee<\/strong>‘s Faith and Family Values Coalition<\/strong>. Kreep’s old outfit now only turns up as an oft-cited line in a resum\u00e9 but it left behind a reputation for pushing a paternalistic ideology and allegedly morphed into t<\/a>his homophobic entity. (Cohort Floyd Brown<\/strong> has occasionally dabbled at mixing politics and religion, as well as acting as an investment adviser.) If we ever get to the heart of this labyrinth, what we appear likeliest to find is an anti-gambling crusade piggybacking onto Nevada<\/strong> politics.<\/p>\n

P.S.:<\/strong> Damn Kreep and Brown both for taking up time I’d rather have spent plowing through the latest Hard Rock Hotel<\/strong> financials. Now there’s<\/em> a mess for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson might approve of Gary Kreep‘s recent PAC-tivities, inasmuch as they redound to the detriment of competitor MGM Mirage, he’s not behind them. Or, to put it another way, if Adelson’s been involved it … 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":[34,56,28,134,26,36,62,11,102,33,25,12,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603"}],"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=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27322,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/27322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}