Tag: gambling in New York
Why Governor Cuomo wants gambling in New York
October 22, 2013
In his 2012 State of the State Address, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed gambling in New York when he launched his casino initiative, the big idea was to end the constitutional prohibition of commercial gambling so that the Genting Organization, one of the world’s largest “gaming development companies,” could build “the largest convention center in the nation” in Queens, in New York City — an activity that the governor promised would “generate tens of thousands of jobs and economic activity that will ripple throughout the state.” But wait! Soon enough this plan had been completely inverted. By the time of…