{"id":5126,"date":"2010-11-09T16:55:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T00:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2022-12-09T05:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:05:23","slug":"gamings-big-election-night-coming-attractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/gamings-big-election-night-coming-attractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming’s big election night; Coming attractions"},"content":{"rendered":"

This just in<\/em>: Fuming over a 5,000-vote-plus margin of defeat, opponents of a casino in western Maine<\/strong> are demanding a recount<\/a>. Casino developer Black Bear Entertainment<\/strong> calls this “a needlessly divisive exercise.” Do I sense the subtle touch of Penn National Gaming<\/strong> at work here?<\/p>\n

Gaming-law expert I. Nelson Rose<\/strong> has been thoroughly policing up the aftermath of the 2010 election for the casino industry. For instance, in Iowa<\/strong>, all 17 counties with existing casinos reafffirmed the status quo, although Wapello County<\/strong> voters opted to prohibit casino expansion into their corner of the Hawkeye State. A PAC called Racino Now<\/strong> is taking credit for the election of a slate of pro-racino candidates in Minnesota<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"And, in a very tight Midwest gubernatorial contest, GOP candidate Bill Brady<\/strong> (left<\/em>) may well have sunk his chances with the last-minute broadside, “Video poker is the scourge of Illinois<\/strong>.” Way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, dude. State legislators are itching to expand legalized gambling yet again — economically futile as that may seem (the Land of Lincoln’s casino revenues are still declining). Even a Gov. Pat Quinn<\/strong> victory hasn’t prevented them from going into hurry-up mode<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’d like to know more vis-a-vis<\/em> Rose’s assertion that “tea-party wacko Sharron Angle<\/strong> was backed by anti-gambling activists<\/em>.” If such was the case, Nevada<\/strong> voters should have been alerted prior to the election, and it’d be a reproof to both the mainstream media and the blogosphere if we blew off a story of that magnitude. Talk about letting the cat in amongst the pigeons!<\/p>\n

\"\"Coming soon<\/strong> in online-only form, book reviews by yours truly of Jack Sheehan’s Bill Bennett<\/strong> bio, Forgotten Man<\/a><\/em>, the life of a figure once so influential he was called “the Sam Walton<\/strong> of Las Vegas” (yes, it was in a complimentary sense), and The Man Who Bet on Everything<\/a><\/em>, the saga of gambler “Titanic” Thompson<\/strong>. And if you scroll toward the bottom of “You Make Me Feel Brand New,” it contains new, Web-only featurettes about the Sin City boxing arena that became Faciliteq Architectural Interiors<\/strong> and a 1944 Downtown house restored to its original appearance by realtor Jack LeVine<\/strong> … in addition to coverage of the Tropicana Las Vegas<\/strong> and (from the pen of Al\u00a0 Mancini<\/strong>) the Gold Spike<\/strong>. It was an election-season meme to diss “green energy” as a economic vehicle for Southern Nevada. However, given the number of buildings that could — and need to be — retrofitted to make them financially viable, there’s no shortage of opportunity around these parts. Our own (rental) house would be a lot more affordable if we could stanch its tendency to bleed energy like a hemophiliac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This just in: Fuming over a 5,000-vote-plus margin of defeat, opponents of a casino in western Maine are demanding a recount. Casino developer Black Bear Entertainment calls this “a needlessly divisive exercise.” Do I sense the subtle touch of Penn … 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":[48,51,14,26,117,140,58,86,43,69,111,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126"}],"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=5126"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32020,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions\/32020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}