DAILY BEAST: Politico landed a hard-to-get interview with Sheldon Adelson, but he doesn’t really say anything all that interesting except for this, explaining his animus toward the Potus:
Like many other businesspeople who depend on tourism, Adelson holds a grudge from just three weeks after Obama’s inauguration, when the new president said financiers receiving bailouts shouldn’t “go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime.”..
I see from reading around that this has been an issue in Vegas. I might have thought that conservatives would think that Obama’s comments were prudent, as he was instructing people not to go take taxpayers’ dollars to the gaming tables. I also find it kind of hard to believe that the conference and convention industry listens that attentively to the president. I back Obama, and I don’t give a flying fig leaf where he goes on vacation or suggests I should or should not go… (more)
