{"id":60879,"date":"2014-12-11T11:59:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T19:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60879"},"modified":"2023-09-17T04:19:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T12:19:43","slug":"connect-the-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60879","title":{"rendered":"Connecting The Dots With Sheldon Adelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we accept that it is counterproductive and a distraction for the Republicans to focus on fighting anti-marijuana laws, as <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/stupid-party-wont-cut-funding-for-amnesty-but-will-stop-dc-from-smoking-pot\">James Kirkpatrick wisely noted<\/a>, and if we accept that the man most responsible and intent on the Republicans NOT fighting amnesty is Sheldon Adelson, then wouldn&#8217;t it make the most sense for Adelson to spend a lot of cash fighting marijuana legalization?<\/p>\n<p>Yes it would. <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/govbeat\/wp\/2014\/10\/28\/casino-billionaire-sheldon-adelson-is-behind-85-percent-of-floridas-anti-pot-campaign\/\">Hmm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters stranger, as <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/the-shocking-and-weird-hypocrisy-of-floridas-marijuana-opponents-811\">Vice noticed<\/a>, Adelson supports medical marijuana. IN ISRAEL!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As VICE reported in June, Sheldon Adelson, the GOP mega-donor and casino executive, has raised eyebrows by donating $2.5 million to the Drug Free Florida&#8217;s campaign against medical pot. The donation immediately raised questions. First, Adelson and his wife are major donors to a medical research facility in Tel Aviv that supports the use of marijuana to treat a number of diseases, so it\u2019s a tad strange for Adelson to seek a ban on medical pot in America while financing it in Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adelson appears to be using marijuana as a tactic of distraction to help defeat Republican resistance to amnesty. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/adelson.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/adelson-300x162.jpeg\" alt=\"adelson\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/adelson-300x162.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/adelson.jpeg 305w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we accept that it is counterproductive and a distraction for the Republicans to focus on fighting anti-marijuana laws, as James Kirkpatrick wisely noted, and if we accept that the man most responsible and intent on the Republicans NOT fighting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60879\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,29606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-sheldon-adelson-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60879"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152118,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60879\/revisions\/152118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}