He named numerous senators who would not vote for a Bridgeport Casino if their lives depended on it, either because they are against gambling expansion, or because they support the tribal casino, or because they fear losing revenue-sharing payments from the tribes, as has been threatened.<\/p>\n
The merits of the Bridgeport casino can be debated, and they have been in Connecticut for years,\u201d Reiss wrote. \u201cIt’s possible that MGM is exactly right, that a Bridgeport casino can capture the New York market and be successful in ways an East Windsor casino can only dream of.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u201cHowever, with just two days remaining for lawmakers to meet and after hitting the jackpot with Friday’s House vote, it looks more like the tribes may have the political upper hand, leading Bridgeport’s push to go belly-up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Connecticut\u2019s controversial Bridgeport casino push was approved by the House of Representatives on Friday, but is likely to die in the Senate, according to political observers in the state. The bill does not mention Bridgeport by name \u2013 or MGM Resorts International. It would merely create a \u201crequest for referral process\u201d for operators to submit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":77084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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