Funny the timing of Mayor Fulop's latest Tweet, after Johnny had been doing a good job rallying the troops on this website and on Twitter himself (and the numbers were good, lots of eyes on this topic now) against the idiotic idea of putting a 95 story casino on the river and a NASCAR sized 100,000+ seat race track in or next to Liberty State Park we hear this from Hizzoner:
@StevenFulop: Gambling/ #casinos in North Jersey. Thoughts? #JerseyCity has big potential here
You can ALREADY gamble in Jersey City, Mayor. Just pull out your smartphone or iPad and there you go. Gambling abounds in Jersey City and North Jersey. You know this. Let's get down to brass tacks since you're obviously listening. A 100K seat race track? There? Have you ever been to a NASCAR event? Johnny is from the midwest, he's been to MIS in Brooklyn Michigan on race day. Where are you going to put all those people in campers? Liberty State Park? Oh that'll look good when they leave. Have you been to a race? The traffic, already choked around here would become Woodstock. NASCAR fans are not staying at a 95 story casino. They might make the casino some money but they bring their own food and drink and have camp parties and bonfires.
Show us the grand success of a new casino in Atlantic City. Show us the grand success where the whole community benefits from really any casino in AC. Governor Pylon dumps millions upon millions of our tax money into those casinos. What did the state get? More unemployment.
The downtown grid is full, Johnny Healy Appleseed Tax Abatement Guy saw to that. You said so yourself.
So, to sum up:
1) Impacting Liberty State Park is an obscene and selfish idea
2) The downtown grid is full
3) One can already gamble in North Jersey
Like Johnny said earlier, we'd better all band together anyway we can because it sure sounds like somebody wants a big shiny thing at any cost to show state voters in 2017.
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