{"id":2943,"date":"2010-04-15T12:32:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T20:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2010-04-15T12:32:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T20:32:14","slug":"massive-defeat-for-patrick-in-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/massive-defeat-for-patrick-in-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive defeat for Patrick in Mass."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in <strong>Massachusetts<\/strong> ran roughshod over Gov. <strong>Deval Patrick<\/strong> (D), overwhelmingly approving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20100415\/NEWS\/4150710\/1116\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">a four-racino, two-casino formula<\/a> the governor opposes. They also resisted the urgings of those who would put the two, $500 million casino resorts out in the boonies, giving racinos a stranglehold on the <strong>Boston<\/strong> market. Those resort locations will now be determined by a specially appointed commission. Casino supporters are projecting a $1.1 billion\/year industry, although<!--more--> that figure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2010\/04\/13\/spending_on_gambling_would_rise_study_says\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">relies on some mighty big assumptions<\/a> &#8212; mainly that destination-style casinos will be sufficiently well-situated and compelling as to pull back $635 million in business that&#8217;s currently going to <strong>Mohegan Sun<\/strong>, <strong>Foxwoods Resort Casino<\/strong> and other nearby gambling venues.<\/p>\n<p>At least with no site restrictions and the &#8220;favorite son&#8221; factor on his side, <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> is back in the game &#8230; depending on how that <strong>Nevada Gaming Control Board<\/strong> investigation of triad involvement with <strong>Sands Macao<\/strong> shakes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in Massachusetts ran roughshod over Gov. Deval Patrick (D), overwhelmingly approving a four-racino, two-casino formula the governor opposes. They also resisted the urgings of those who would put the two, $500 million casino resorts out in the boonies, giving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/massive-defeat-for-patrick-in-mass\/\">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":[28,14,62,112,33,25,12,87,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943"}],"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=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2959,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/2959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}