It really doesn't matter whether there has been an attempt at an outright ban or merely an attempt to influence these properties. We're still talking about action that is taken under the color of the law and is therefore governmental action that is, frankly, censorship.
I look at it as part of the same kind of mind-set that looks at the tourist industry as paramount, and therefore anything that might offend tourists, the powers that be don't want. So they pass these things sometimes forgetting the fact we're not in a private Disneyland here.
To say, 'don't have it', that's censorship. That's what is being done. That is what is being said by the control board letter and by the sheriff.
It's not the job of police to play formal or informal censor.
It does cause some concern. It raises questions that need to be looked at.
When you have a set of rules, and then government says they don't apply to you -- they only apply when we want them to -- that's a concern.
Proper review is not particularly burdensome, so there is no real need for this. It's like they're saying we don't need judges, we don't want any review at all.
Certainly there is nothing that prohibits the commission or the (Gaming) Control Board from saying to properties, you have to be careful about and responsible for the security of any type of venue. But it can't go to content.
This is a substantial amount of money. This is not some symbolic type of gesture, this is the procedure to be followed.
You just don't have criminal trials dismissed because of prosecutorial misconduct, intentional or unintentional.