And While We’re Talking About Sellouts
Governor Ed Rendell seems to have forgotten his job is to represent Pennsylvanians, not Foxwoods
Apparently, Ed thinks that it’s “gutless” for City Council to delay siting slots parlors on the Delaware River. I think Ed needs a new dictionary, because what City Council is doing is called “representing Philadelphians”.
Perhaps the governor’s strongest statements about opposition to the slots parlors, Rendell referred to a “City Council with no guts that can be extorted by community groups.” He said the delays were also blocking 7,000 jobs for a city “dying for jobs” and wage-tax reductions for city residents.
If anyone’s extorting someone it’s Ed Rendell and his friends in the casino/slots parlor industry. The people in the river wards have enough to deal with with poverty, prostitution, drugs, and a poorly-designed stretch interstate that tore the neighborhood in two years ago. The area is finally making a comeback, and a bunch of special interests who don’t give a rat’s ass about the community want to plunk a slots parlor right next door to a residential neighborhood.
Slots parlors don’t attract high-rollers: there are no games of chance like poker or blackjack, just row after row of one-armed bandits. It won’t benefit the neighborhood.
But don’t tell Fast Eddy: he’ll tell you you’re gutless for standing up for your community. I guess it’s true: Ed Rendell only cared about Center City.
Tip o’ the hat to Lutton Square.
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February 4th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
The river boat casinos that line the banks of the Missouri River in Kansas City, MO. have done NOTHING to improve the state of poverty here. They have not made one positive contribution. If they disappeared today, it would be a godsend.