{"id":8404,"date":"2012-02-01T11:49:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T19:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8404"},"modified":"2021-06-07T05:49:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T13:49:35","slug":"quote-of-the-day-397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-397\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2604\" title=\"sheldon-adelson_170x170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sheldon-adelson_170x170-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sheldon-adelson_170x170-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sheldon-adelson_170x170.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>&#8220;The chief danger heralded by the Adelson-Gingrich relationship aren\u2019t the particulars of [<strong>Sheldon<\/strong>] <strong>Adelson<\/strong>\u2019s politics. It is the prospect of an individual being willing, able, and legally permitted to fund an entire campaign and essentially to purchase an elected office.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Marc Tracy<\/strong>, of <strong>Tablet<\/strong>, on the <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> CEO&#8217;s preferred investment of the moment &#8212; which has now swelled to just shy of $19 million, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0112\/72280.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">thanks to an additional $1 million or so<\/a> from the Adelson kids<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The chief danger heralded by the Adelson-Gingrich relationship aren\u2019t the particulars of [Sheldon] Adelson\u2019s politics. It is the prospect of an individual being willing, able, and legally permitted to fund an entire campaign and essentially to purchase an elected office.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-397\/\">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":[28,26,25,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404"}],"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=8404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29673,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions\/29673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}