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Posted At : September 26, 2008 10:53 AM | Posted By : D McKee
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Politics,Atlantic City
Let's say you're accomplished gaming executive or casino shop steward, responsible for overseeing the efforts of thousands of employees, keeping the trains running on time and maybe even meeting a budget. That'd qualify you to run for city councilor or mayor of Atlantic City, right?
Wrong! Until now, anyway. The New Jersey State Assembly has voted to undo an archaic rule that prohibits casino employees from holding elective office in Atlantic City. Some Republicans fret that this well extend the nefarious influence of the casino industry (whose money they are only to happy to put toward the state budget, however).
To their view, implicity, it is better to maintain a caste of second-class citizens whose ability to effect public policy extends no farther than the voting booth. (Gee, that sounds like "expanding the political influence of the wealthy casino industry." Better disenfranchise them, too.) Considering the hue and cry that Press of Atlantic City readers make about their elected representatives -- and with good reason -- the town couldn't do worse by dipping into the body politic found in the casinos.
While they're at it, solons in Trenton ought to repeal the ban on casino-industry contributions to Garden State political candidates. It's an infringement upon such companies' free-speech rights and on their ability to participate in the democratic process. Given the economic diversity of New Jersey, it's extremely improbable that the casino industry would ever commad the kind of preponderant political influence that it wields in Nevada.
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