{"id":3174,"date":"2010-05-17T16:59:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T00:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2010-05-17T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T00:59:20","slug":"quote-of-the-day-174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-174\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2532\" title=\"gibbons_dennis_hmed_10a.h2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gibbons_dennis_hmed_10a.h2-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gibbons_dennis_hmed_10a.h2-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gibbons_dennis_hmed_10a.h2-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gibbons_dennis_hmed_10a.h2.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;I recall a conversation with a prominent gaming executive when he was  asked to support [then-Rep. <strong>Jim<\/strong>] <strong>Gibbons<\/strong> four years ago. He wondered why the state\u2019s  power elite would anoint someone who was quietly embarrassing in D.C.  amid 435 members and give him the chance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2010\/may\/16\/public-arena-he-disdains\/\" target=\"_blank\">to be loudly embarrassing<\/a> in  the state\u2019s most important and high-profile job. Good question.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Jon Ralston<\/strong> on Midnight Jim&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2010\/may\/16\/jim-gibbons-time-governor-nevada-just-about\/\" target=\"_blank\">hopeless deficit in the polls<\/a> (not likely to be helped by the revelation that Gibbons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2010\/may\/16\/public-arena-he-disdains-second-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">left major policy decisions to a top campaign donor<\/a>), making him a couple of weeks shy of becoming a lame-duck governor.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I recall a conversation with a prominent gaming executive when he was asked to support [then-Rep. Jim] Gibbons four years ago. He wondered why the state\u2019s power elite would anoint someone who was quietly embarrassing in D.C. amid 435 members &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-174\/\">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":[28,26,137,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174"}],"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=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}