{"id":962,"date":"2008-01-24T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/1\/24\/Double-standard"},"modified":"2012-10-15T14:43:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T22:43:33","slug":"double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/double-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Double standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to yesterday&#8217;s <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, the <strong>Culinary Union<\/strong> has sent Nevada casino regulators a tape and report purportedly documenting prostitution at the <strong>Tropicana<\/strong>. Why I&#8217;m shocked, <em>SHOCKED<\/em>, I tell you! The oldest profession being practiced on the Las Vegas Strip? Next thing you know, somebody will be saying the sun doesn&#8217;t revolve around the earth. Oh, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicolaus_Copernicus\">never mind<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A few thoughts. <strong>A)<\/strong> The local dailies not only got beat to this story, they <em>continue<\/em> to snooze; <strong>B)<\/strong> This is hardly the first time I&#8217;ve heard assertions that ladies of the evening are being allowed to ply their trade in Strip casinos &#8212; even at ones more upscale than the Trop; <strong>C)<\/strong> Would <strong>D. Taylor<\/strong> be making an issue of this if the Culinary wasn&#8217;t at an impasse with Tropicana parent <strong>Columbia Sussex<\/strong>? <strong>D)<\/strong> Isn&#8217;t this a case of suspiciously selective outrage? <strong>E)<\/strong> If the Culinary knew about criminal activity taking place on the premises of the Trop (or elsewhere), why didn&#8217;t it come forward sooner?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying the Nevada Gaming Control Board should bury its head in the sand. But even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>IF<\/strong><\/span> these allegations should bear out, the Culinary Union doesn&#8217;t exactly have clean hands. Apparently if it can&#8217;t get Columbia Sussex to the bargaining table, it&#8217;s going to reach into its bag of Deep Dark Secrets and either embarrass Columbia Sussex into making a deal or try to run it out of the state.<\/p>\n<p>What else &#8212; if anything &#8212; does the Culinary know about non-kosher activity at Strip and Downtown casinos that it&#8217;s not telling us? And why are whistleblower hotlines and secret dossiers only being produced when there&#8217;s a contract at stake? The Culinary is behaving like the worst caricature of a strong-arm union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to yesterday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal, the Culinary Union has sent Nevada casino regulators a tape and report purportedly documenting prostitution at the Tropicana. Why I&#8217;m shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you! The oldest profession being practiced on the Las Vegas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/double-standard\/\">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":[15,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962"}],"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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9851,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/9851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}