Monmouth situation increasingly dire..

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by richard burch

i go to a.c. once or twice a year. every year it gets more hostile.

this summer i was yelled at and followed by several homeless junkies. they were actually screaming at me on the street to give them money and this was about 2 in the afternoon. that same week two people were shot and killed in a car jacking from trumps casino. what else do i need to say?

that doesn't happen at foxwoods or monticello.

going to the north end of the boardwalk at night is just plain scary. this has been a developing pattern over the years. people won't go to somewhere they feel there life is in danger. go 2 blocks off the boardwalk at night and you better be on your guard. if and when the revell casino opens that alone will put 2 or 3 smaller ones out of business.

they brought on their own demise. corruption has ruled since nicky scarfo poured the foundations.

too many casinos with too many vacant tables and slots, too many empty floors of hotels that are barely even used anymore. too many homeless and hookers. (well lets keep the hookers)

solution: 2 maybe 3 casinos on the boardwalk and spread the slots to the racetracks so everyone in the state can gamble without fear of being assaulted. the state gets revenue and everyone will be better off.

I was at Harrahs a couple of weeks ago and the place was mobbed. It seems like they have geared the place towards a younger (early 20's crowd). Supposedly the scene at the Borgota is the same. Not sure how buisness on the rest of the strip is doing, but i would think that the 245 million (mentioned in the posted article) that the casinos generated in revenue is nothing to sneeze at.

Are there bad areas around A.C.? Sure, but guess what, there are a couple of blocks around Monmouth that's on the sketchy side too. Why would you want to walk around the neighbood in AC anyway? As far as the Boardwalk goes, I've always seen a strong police presence there (in the warmer months). That's where the tourists go anyway.

Obviously casinos popping up all over the place is hurting buisness, but the casinos seem to be reinventing themselves in what still is a struggling economy. I would also think that it's off season now. But the state just has to much vested in AC to stop supporting it. It's just seems like you have an agenda against Atlantic City. It's a big summertime destination and you want to get down to only 2-3 hotels? The state can't afford to lose out on that revenue, not to mention if the majority of those people ended up unemployed.

Please don't insult everyones intelligence by saying that you want slots at the Meadowlands and Monmouth so people don't have to worry about their lives to gamble. NJ racing survived off A.C. for a long time, but this is a different enviorment. The state just has too much vested in the Atlantic City/Southern Jersey area to diminish their buisness further by approving slots at the 2 tracks. What really needs to be done is to make Monmouth a Ultra Short Boutique Meet. Something like 34 days from Memorial Day to the last day of July (Haskell Day). Runs 4 days a week, Friday through Monday to take advantage of the lack of racing on Mondays. I would sign up for a month of quality racing instead of the constant crap that raced there on a consistant basis for the eternity that the 2011 meet seemed to be. If they can't make something like that work, then it just isn't meant to be. We always say it, there's too much racing. Unfortunately Monmouth just wouldn't make the cut.