Steve Wynn received special treatment

Apr. 23, 2008
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Special treatment
To the editor:

I read where casino magnate Steve Wynn attended a hearing at the Regional Justice Center to observe the proceedings of two of his dealers trying to reverse his tip-sharing policy ("Tip-rules switch broke pacts, labor lawyer says," April 8 Review-Journal). But did he enter or leave through the front door, subject to a search like you and I would?

Nope. He entered "the 17th-floor courtroom at the Regional Justice Center through a side emergency exit door ... then took a private elevator primarily used by judges and their staff to exit the building."

Why was he accorded such preferential treatment? Can anyone do the same if they ask? Nope. I'm sure such accommodations aren't available to the common citizens who overpaid for this edifice.

This special treatment personifies what is so wrong in so many circles of this city, county and state. It's this air of self-assigned sense of superiority and aristocracy and the old "who you know" that determines your entitlement and treatment. That and a lack of a sense of fairness and equal treatment among this self-important upper class.

Michael A. Dimmick
LAS VEGAS