{"id":680,"date":"2009-06-03T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/6\/3\/Station-1-Boyd-0"},"modified":"2009-06-03T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T21:01:00","slug":"station-1-boyd-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/station-1-boyd-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Station 1, Boyd 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <strong>North Las Vegas<\/strong> proxy war, <strong>Station Casinos<\/strong> handed defeat to <strong>Boyd Gaming<\/strong> when its preferred candidate, Councilwoman <strong>Shari Buck<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/news\/breaking_news\/46776717.html\">trounced a colleague<\/a>, to become the city&apos;s next mayor. Both Boyd and Station contributed to both candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/blogs\/business\/Resort_battle_leads_to_spending_in_NLV_mayoral_race.html\">but slight biases were evident<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Station and partner <strong>Greenspun Corp<\/strong>. gave $32,600 to Buck, $28,500 to opponent <strong>William Robinson<\/strong>. Boyd and its NLV partner, <strong>Olympia Group<\/strong>, gave $37,500 to Robinson, as opposed to $25,000 for Buck.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, the outcome of the election will not be good news for Boyd, especially if Station comes back to the city council, asking for a zoning variance so it can build <strong>Losee Station<\/strong> &#8230; right across the street from Boyd&apos;s as-yet-untitled joint venture with Olympia. Outgoing Mayor <strong>Michael Montandon<\/strong> had opposed expanding the number of casino enterprize zones in NLV until all the existing ones have been developed, a process that might have required waiting until Hell is dripping with icicles. With Montandon out of the picture, all bets &#8212; so to speak &#8212; are off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a North Las Vegas proxy war, Station Casinos handed defeat to Boyd Gaming when its preferred candidate, Councilwoman Shari Buck, trounced a colleague, to become the city&apos;s next mayor. Both Boyd and Station contributed to both candidates but slight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/station-1-boyd-0\/\">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":[60,26,41,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680"}],"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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}