𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗦 𝗩𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗦 𝗦𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗨𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗭𝗘𝗗 𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗢 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗘𝗫𝗔𝗦

 

The Las Vegas Sands Corporation is pushing hard for casino gambling to be legalized in Texas with the advertisement in the upper left corner appearing on my Facebook pages just minutes ago.

The corporation's owner, Miriam Adelson, one of the world's richest women, is shown at the bottom of the photo collage receiving the "Medal of Freedom" from President Trump.  Trump, displaying his typical disdain for our military, claimed at the time that the "Medal of Freedom" was "much better than the "Medal of Honor" because "that medal is given to soldiers who are either dead or they don't look very good because they've been hit so many times by bullets.  Miriam, here, though, is a beautiful woman."

The "attractive" Mrs. Adelson donated $108M to Trump's successful 2024 presidential campaign.

Adelson's effort to get casino gambling on the ballot in Texas is not going well.  Despite generous contributions to Republican state senators and congressmen, the bill to legalize casino gambling has not even come out of committee.

The sales pitch for legalizing casino gambling is to make Texas in general and Dallas-Fort Worth in particular, a "luxury resort destination."  Adelson has purchased the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team, plus over 100 acres of land near the old Cowboy Stadium on which she plans to build a casino, a new arena for the Mavericks along with other retail development.

          

The young man at the upper right of the collage is Patrick Dumont, Adelson's son-in-law who she's named the "Governor" of the Dallas Mavericks.  Dumont's first official act running the Mavericks was to trade their star player, Luka Doncic, to the Los Angeles Lakers to avoid paying him the $345M Supermax over five years for which he would have been eligible this summer.  

Currently, Dumont is not a popular man in the metroplex as hundreds of Mavs fans recently demonstrated outside the American Airlines Center, carrying signs asking the team to fire General Manager Nico Harrison, while fans have made comments on social media suggesting Adelson and her family sell the team and move back to Las Vegas.