Sunday, January 27, 2013

Gambling that their Meadowlands casino predictions come true ...

Friday?s topping-off ceremony at the Meadowlands Sports Complex was mainly about the new racetrack grandstand that will open in November.

But another sort of gambling was on the minds of most there, including track operator Jeff Gural, who said, ?Someday a casino will be here, I hope.?

Two elected officials, meanwhile, immortalized their sentiments on the final beam that was about to be put into place, as recorded by our photographer Marko Georgiev:

full-size link is here.

?Let?s have casinos,? wrote Assemblyman Ralph Caputo, D-Essex.

?I will be back for the casino steel erection!? wrote state Sen. Paul Sarlo, D-Wood-Ridge.

Both men have consistently pushed in Trenton for a Meadowlands casino, though they have been rebuffed so far by fellow Democrat and state Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester ? who also attended the ceremony ? as well as Governor Christie.

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