Posted on 05/26/2016 5:03:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai
New Jersey lawmakers on Thursday sent Gov. Chris Christie legislation to keep Atlantic City from running out of cash, throwing the financially strapped resort a life preserver just before the unofficial start to summer this weekend.
The Democrat-led Assembly and state Senate approved the measures by wide margins just as the state’s 127 miles of beaches prepare for the Memorial Day holiday. Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who earlier supported legislation allowing for an immediate state takeover of the city’s finances, has said the bill gives him the authority he needs. He stopped short of saying whether he will sign the bill, but said he will decide quickly.
“It’s huge,” Atlantic City Mayor Don Guardian, a Republican, said. “We want people to know the shore is open for business.” …
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...and that there's no shark to worry about, either.
Whenever I look at postcards of AC when it was an actual resort town and not Sin City on the Shore, I wonder exactly what happened sometimes.
I thought bringing casinos to AC was their rescue package.
So they come begging to the state to save them?
Ifmthey do, they better be prepared to be run by the state, and have local govt disbanded
How did that banning smoking at the casinos work out for you NJ? LOL
The cigarettes left and the Chinese left with them!
Well, a big part of it was the rise of household air conditioning...one no longer needed to travel from NYC to the Shore to cool off.
There was also an explanation I read here years ago, that one of the political parties had their convention in Atlantic City after its decline had begun, and a prominent NYC columnist wrote about the horrid accommodations he had endured, complete with an arrogant “whaddaya gonna do about it” attitude from the hotel management. And that after that, people who might have been inclined to go to Atlantic City stayed away in droves.
Yep, plenty of them in MS casinos
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