{"id":4522,"date":"2010-09-06T14:48:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T22:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4522"},"modified":"2010-09-07T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T23:16:50","slug":"the-big-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/the-big-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As we’ve been taught, if you’re going to tell a lie then make it a whopper. Enter Republican Advocates<\/strong> President Jim Clark<\/strong>. Having called completion of CityCenter<\/strong> “throwing good money after bad”, Clark unloads this doozy: “The project is now a $13 billion (with a \u201cb\u201d) bankruptcy employing some 22,000 lawyers, most from out of state<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Excuse me?<\/strong> Mr. Clark is, at best, grossly misinformed<\/a>. CityCenter is not in bankruptcy and did not cost $13 billion. As for the 22,000 lawyers, I’d like to know from which orifice that grandiose claim was pulled. So long as Clark is playing god, let’s take the wayback machine to late-March 2009, when CityCenter was on the verge of Chapter 11, with 8,500 construction j0bs up for grabs. What would Clark have had then-MGM Mirage<\/strong> and Sens. Harry Reid<\/strong> and John Ensign<\/strong> do? Let the thing shut down, even as it neared completion? Implode it? (The question of how the economic impact would be absorbed simply goes begging.)<\/p>\n

The Jim Clarks of the world should shut their traps and leave discussion of CityCenter to people who actually know something about it. Incidentally … scuttlebutt has it that MGM has laid out a contingency plan for demolition of the stalled Harmon Hotel<\/strong> tower. If MGM tears it apart, maybe they’ll invite Clark so he can get his rocks off seeing what’s left of Sir Norman Foster<\/strong>‘s concept come tumbling down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we’ve been taught, if you’re going to tell a lie then make it a whopper. Enter Republican Advocates President Jim Clark. Having called completion of CityCenter “throwing good money after bad”, Clark unloads this doozy: “The project is now … 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":[65,14,52,11,33,9,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522"}],"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=4522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4524,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}