{"id":4015,"date":"2010-07-09T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2020-12-28T08:13:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:13:39","slug":"when-her-head-stops-spinning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/when-her-head-stops-spinning\/","title":{"rendered":"When her head stops spinning …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… where will Sharron Angle<\/strong> stand vis-a-vis the casino industry? She’s already raised the bogeyman of “undue [casino] pressure” — as opposed to “due pressure”? — in her now-scrubbed original Web site, which keeps coming back from the cyber-grave<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The full context of her slam on CityCenter<\/strong> is available, including a wacky parenthetical remark that Nevada<\/strong> needs “real jobs” (i.e., not casino-resort jobs, which Ms. Angle seems to think exist in a finite quantity). Seriously, this notion that adding 10,000 positions at CityCenter <\/strong>cost 10,000 other Strip employees their jobs is Flake City, unsupported by credible evidence.<\/p>\n

\"\"However, she issues a broad call for deregulation of industry<\/a>. Uhhhh … would that include the casino industry, ma’am? If so, Ms. Angle just locked up the all-important Black Book<\/strong> voting bloc, although it’s sadly too late for her to collect an endorsement from Lefty Rosenthal<\/strong>. (And she thinks that present-day<\/em> casino money is icky-poo? Go figure.)<\/p>\n

(Platform 1.0<\/a> says “Businesses should be liberated from over regulation<\/em> [sic] and taxation<\/em>.” [Whoops, there went the Nevada state budget, propped up on a casino-tax crutch. Nice knowin’ ya.] Further down, it adds that Angle “does not oppose casinos and unions<\/em>” which is mighty big of her, “but wants to avoid the perception, by voters, that these groups might put undue pressure on her<\/em> …” So a thousand clams from, say, Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> are somehow tainted but the same 1,000 smackeroos from, say, the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada<\/strong><\/a> would have been hunky-dory? Yeah, we’re totally clear on that. Keep those backhanded insults coming.)<\/p>\n

Oh, and if casino<\/strong> — and union — donations are the only unwelcome ones, that rolls out the welcome mat to the brothel, nightclub and strip-club industries, doesn’t it? That’d be OK by me. They’re all significant corporate citizens here but Ms. Angle’s fellow Southern Baptists<\/strong> might puzzle at the pretzel logic that emerges from her brain. She’s turning into Nevada’s own version of the “Boom goes the dynamite” guy.<\/p>\n

P.S.<\/strong>: In no way is this to be construed as an endorsement of Sen. Harry Reid<\/strong> (D-NV), perhaps the worst Senate Majority Leader of my lifetime (i.e., since the Kennedy administration).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… where will Sharron Angle stand vis-a-vis the casino industry? She’s already raised the bogeyman of “undue [casino] pressure” — as opposed to “due pressure”? — in her now-scrubbed original Web site, which keeps coming back from the cyber-grave. The … 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":[56,28,14,52,11,33,12,31,87,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015"}],"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=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28990,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/28990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}