{"id":5916,"date":"2011-03-07T19:58:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T03:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2011-03-08T14:51:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T22:51:34","slug":"an-ensign-afterthought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/an-ensign-afterthought\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ensign afterthought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3206\" title=\"ILoveEnsignlanyard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ILoveEnsignlanyard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ILoveEnsignlanyard.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ILoveEnsignlanyard-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>By spending tens of thousands of dollars to defend the (mis)conduct of Sen. <strong>John Ensign<\/strong>, not only do the CEOs of <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> and <strong>Wynn Resorts<\/strong> appear to condone it, they open themselves to questions about their own views on business ethics. Would they approve of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegascitylife.com\/articles\/2010\/12\/09\/news\/local_news\/iq_40562289.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Ensign-like shenanigans<\/a> within their own executive suites? With Ensign benefactor <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>&#8216;s company presently under investigation to answer the question of whether or not it&#8217;s running a rogue operation in <strong>China<\/strong>, this is a very unpleasant thought to try and sleep upon. Many other casino executives may have felt &#8220;there but for the grace of God&#8221; twinges of sympathy for ex-<strong>Nevada Landing<\/strong> manager Ensign &#8212; but they didn&#8217;t feel compelled to make big-buck donations to the cause of getting his butt out of a self-inflicted sling. Why did Sheldon &amp; Steve consider it imperative to, in effect, proclaim &#8220;You&#8217;re our kind of guy&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>We could hang around for an answer but I suspect we&#8217;d be better off waiting for <strong>Mr. Godot<\/strong> to keep his appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By spending tens of thousands of dollars to defend the (mis)conduct of Sen. John Ensign, not only do the CEOs of Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts appear to condone it, they open themselves to questions about their own views &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/an-ensign-afterthought\/\">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":[28,62,12,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916"}],"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=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5923,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions\/5923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}