Christie Guarantees Jobs For Casino Workers. Under fire, Governor Chris Christie: 'I am plugged in, I am listening and I have always been working.'
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been challenged by casino employees over jobs, as three associated with city's casinos face imminent closure. Christie, who was at Ocean City Town Hall to discuss retirement reforms, was greeted on their arrival by a team of workers from the threatened Revel, Showboat and Trump Plaza, chanting 'Save our Jobs' and 'Five Year Promise.'
Each year to bring more flights to the Atlantic City airport, promote more convention business and raise private investment into the casino market in 2011 Christie issued a five-year plan that promised to fix the New Jersey economy, offering millions of dollars.
Revel was a ingredient that is key Christie's designs for Atlantic City. Conceived before the recession, construction of the Revel project started in 2008, simply because the downturn that is economic, and Revel Inc discovered itself in financial serious straits, specially when backers, Morgan Stanley, pulled down soon after.
The project that is entire been a complete catastrophe, consistently losing money since it opened in 2012 and more recently hemorrhaging $2 million per week
Christie, for who Revel represented the promise of a gleaming, revitalized Atlantic City, intervened with a $261 million buck bailout in tax credits and new loan, desperate to see the $2.4 billion project right through to