{"id":3941,"date":"2010-07-01T15:12:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T23:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2010-07-01T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T23:12:39","slug":"quote-of-the-day-199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-199\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOnly in Massachusetts would we have a casino bill and try to build a  politically correct casino. Have any of you people ever been to  a casino, and [do you] understand what it takes for a casino to be  successful and to draw people in?&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Massachusetts<\/strong> state Senate Minority Leader <strong>Richard R. Tisei<\/strong>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hOacFksHq_10eqC1KWcVp-K00xwgD9GM45D81\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">a smoking ban imposed<\/a> on Bay State casinos. Several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2010\/06\/25\/senate_amends_gambling_bill_to_ban_smoking_throughout_casinos\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">other casino-killing amendments were voted down<\/a>, including a ludicrous proposal that prospective casinos be approved by all towns and cities in a 15-mile radius. A 20% increase in the casino tax was also fought off<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOnly in Massachusetts would we have a casino bill and try to build a politically correct casino. Have any of you people ever been to a casino, and [do you] understand what it takes for a casino to be successful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-199\/\">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":[28,112,33,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941"}],"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=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3950,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/3950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}