Casino Royale Running Wild....Marathon To Promote Paragon, Mile 1

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So......

Inspired by the Document Dump Friday just past, which appears to have been designed to bury any and all stories about the Purveyor of the Pleasure Palace, Paragon Gaming Inc. , the Marathon to do exactly the opposite has just begun.....

(see sidebar for a mile-by-mile breakdown of the race to Monday's finish line)

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As we're sprinting as fast as we can't to get out in front of the non-existent proMedia pack, our thoughts have returned to.....

The decision of BC's Lobbyists Watchdog Paul Fraser to NOT investigate the actions of Paragon Director, current Chair of ICBC, and former Chair of the BC Lotteries Corporation, Mr. T. Richard Turner, when he called up the Minister Responsible for BC Place and, according to the Minister himself, but not Mr. Turner, said that the removal of the retractable roof from the gameplan would, allegedly, be a "deal breaker".

Which left us wondering, when we heard the breathless, if cryptic report, on the notsoGiant'98 yesterday afternoon, if Mr. Fraser's decision could possibly have based on any or all of the following possibilities:

1) Lobbying, schmobbying, there's money to be made here, and this is all good for everybody involved....

2) Who cares, for all intents and purposes the deal was already done....

3) An unequivocal statement from Mr. Fraser that, like Pavel Bure ten years before him, Mr. Turner "didn't do anything wrong"....


Well.

It turns out that the real answer is a most emphatic 'None-Of-The-Above'.

And we'll give you that answer, straight from the horse's/lobbyist registrar's mouth/pen, in Mile Two of The Marathon.....

....Coming up soon.

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