Carl Icahn is ready to put a ‘for sale’ subscribe at the Trump Taj Mahal, but before the Atlantic City home goes to the MLS listings, the billionaire investor is first using some time and energy to lambaste State Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D).

Writing on their individual website, Icahn says associated with the Democrat, ‘a man that is wise told me that the mixture of power and irresponsibility in any person is extremely dangerous. Sweeney could be the proof that is quintessential of declaration’s truth.’

Icahn shuttered the Taj Mahal October that is last after company couldn’t come to terms with Unite Here regional 54, the casino union that represented the resort’s bartenders, wait staff, cooks, housekeepers, and other service workers.

During Icahn’s negotiations with the workers that are local, Sweeney introduced legislation that sought to block casino owners from reopening venues they ‘substantially closed’ for the minimum of five years. The bill ended up being unquestionably inclined to the billionaire, who numerous believed was scheming to resurrect the Taj in 2017 clear of union contracts.

After the town’s fifth casino in 36 months went dark, the New Jersey Legislature passed Sweeney’s bill. Soon after, Icahn wi Continue reading Carl Icahn Rips New Jersey Senate President Sweeney, Gov. Christie Vetoes Casino Bill →

The California online poker legislative push is back from the dead, and so is State Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Saywer (D-59^th District) and his bill. Jones-Sawyer’s attempts to unite warring factions in the state’s gaming industry died in 2014 and 2015, along with his poker bills of those same years, but give the man credit: he doesn’t give up easily.

Undeterred, Jones-Sawyer has presented a new bill, AB 1677, aka the Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act, which offers little that’s new, although it does provide a platform to at least reignite the debate.

At the heart of that debate will be the question of suitability. Because online poker will see operators taxed, a bill to regulate it would need two-thirds majority vote to pass in the legislature. This is impossible unless all future stakeholders, mainly tribal casinos with political capital and lobbyists, are in agreement.

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But blocking that outcome are two diametrically opposed groups of tribal operators, who are determined not to agree on the suitability question.