ATLANTIC CITY, NJ—Longtime supporter and defender of Atlantic City's gaming industry State Senator Stephen Sweeney admits he has held discussions with state officials about widening gaming to locations in the northern part of the Garden State.
Sweeney, during a meeting with The Records' editorial board, went so far as to predict that there is a “very real possibility” a statewide proposal on expanded gaming could be on the November 2015 ballot, according to the Record.
“I've talked to people up here about gaming,” Sweeney said in reference to state officials. “If everyone is telling the truth—and you know I'm skeptical, too—then they care about Atlantic City, too. So if there is a true willingness —and I am taking everyone at their word yeah, I am looking at it and I have looked at it for almost a year.”
Assemblyman Ralph Caputo, who is a former Atlantic City casino executive that supports a plan to bring a casino to the Meadowlands, says he is pleased that Sweeney “has opened his mind to the possibility of helping the state's gaming business statewide. Atlantic City is under tremendous strain, and we can't just abandon them,” he says. See story in The Record.
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