{"id":4895,"date":"2010-10-20T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T21:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2010-10-20T13:30:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T21:30:17","slug":"strange-bedfellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/strange-bedfellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange bedfellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Animus by casino dealers toward tip-confiscation by <strong>Steve Wynn<\/strong> is causing them to embrace this piece of work &#8230;<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"272\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/94rDLhw7qaM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/94rDLhw7qaM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s a serious ad, not comedy skit. <strong>Travis Barrick<\/strong> likes to give the impression that he&#8217;d have busted that mean old Wynn in the chops, <a href=\"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/2010\/09\/06\/candid-candidate-an-e-interview-with-ag-candidate-travis-barrick\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">more or less<\/a>: &#8220;<em><strong>Nevada<\/strong> Attorney General <strong>Catherine Cortez<\/strong>] <strong>Masto<\/strong> stood by (or even helped) when Steve Wynn got away with stealing the tips of the dealers in his casinos<\/em>.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure what the &#8220;or even helped&#8221; part means, other than that Barrick is being deliberately vague. Nobody with whom I&#8217;ve discussed the Wynn controversy &#8212; not even former state Sen. <strong>Donald Mello<\/strong>, who wrote the law Wynn flouted &#8212; has suggested that a crackdown by the attorney general&#8217;s office was in order. Sadly, one of the side-effects of union organizers&#8217; losing fight with <strong>Wynn Resorts<\/strong> is that they&#8217;ve become so embittered as to start hanging out with the lunatic fringe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animus by casino dealers toward tip-confiscation by Steve Wynn is causing them to embrace this piece of work &#8230; Yeah, that&#8217;s a serious ad, not comedy skit. Travis Barrick likes to give the impression that he&#8217;d have busted that mean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/strange-bedfellow\/\">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":[28,26,33,25,32,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895"}],"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=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4896,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions\/4896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}