From: Bill Kearney
Massachusetts 'GAMING' Future
Philadelphia Inquirer - Posted: Tue, May. 15, 2012
Christie won't give speech at gaming conference
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Gov. Christie, the scheduled keynote speaker at this week’s East Coast Gaming Congress in Atlantic City at the new Revel Casino, will not attend the gambling conference, a decision that some critics again tied to his presumed national political ambitions.
Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno will take his place, said Christie’s press secretary, Michael Drewniak. “Nothing more than a scheduling conflict and change,” Drewniak said late Friday of Christie’s backing out as the luncheon speaker Thursday for the two-day gathering.
The governor’s decision to be a no-show came just days before a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll Monday that showed the majority of Garden State residents oppose online wagering based at Atlantic City casinos.
“Online gambling may be a good bet for new state revenue,” Peter Woolley, the poll’s director and a political science professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, said on Monday, “but lots of voters don’t think it’s a good bet for New Jersey households.”
Philadelphia Inquirer - Posted: Tue, May. 15, 2012
Christie won't give speech at gaming conference
...
Gov. Christie, the scheduled keynote speaker at this week’s East Coast Gaming Congress in Atlantic City at the new Revel Casino, will not attend the gambling conference, a decision that some critics again tied to his presumed national political ambitions.
Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno will take his place, said Christie’s press secretary, Michael Drewniak. “Nothing more than a scheduling conflict and change,” Drewniak said late Friday of Christie’s backing out as the luncheon speaker Thursday for the two-day gathering.
The governor’s decision to be a no-show came just days before a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll Monday that showed the majority of Garden State residents oppose online wagering based at Atlantic City casinos.
“Online gambling may be a good bet for new state revenue,” Peter Woolley, the poll’s director and a political science professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, said on Monday, “but lots of voters don’t think it’s a good bet for New Jersey households.”
In addition, publicly supporting Internet gaming right now could be a political liability for Christie, who is presumed to be in the running for bigger things on the national political stage.
Woolley said the issue is “sensitive for Christie, because on the one hand, there is a genuine push to find a solution to Atlantic City’s declining revenue, and the resort genuinely needs to compete with the industry outside the state, and adding [Internet gaming] could be seen as an attempt to stave off a lot of pressure to develop gambling in other parts of the state, namely the Meadowlands. On the other hand, by a significant margin, people oppose it.”
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