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Undeterred, LVS has hired Cuomo\u2019s former operations chief, Howard Glaser, as a consultant, as well as Kivvit, the lobbying firm that employs Cuomo\u2019s 2018 campaign manager, Maggie Moran, and Cuomo\u2019s former communications director, Rich Bamberger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The company \u2013- no fan of unions \u2013- has even met with Peter Ward, the head of New York’s powerful hotel workers union and has guaranteed the union the right to organize at any future New York casino, according to Politico.<\/em><\/p>\nCould a New York City Casino Happen?<\/strong><\/h2>\nIn 2013, voters in New York State approved Proposition One, amending the constitution to authorize the licensing of up to seven private commercial casinos. A year later, four licenses were made available in four different upstate areas on the proviso that no casinos could be built downstate for seven years. But that could be changed by legislative mandate.<\/p>\n
In 2016, when New Jersey voters were asked whether they wanted to break Atlantic City\u2019s monopoly on gaming and establish a casino in the North Jersey New York metropolitan area, several New York lawmakers said they were prepared to tear up the downstate prohibition because the damage a North Jersey casino could do to the New York casino sector.<\/p>\n
The point became moot when New Jersyans roundly rejected the proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LVS chief and chair Sheldon Adelson has his eyes on a casino in New York City, which is why he\u2019s been busy aligning himself with some of New York State\u2019s key movers and shakers in the worlds of business and politics, Politico reports. One of the aforementioned is the president and chief executive for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":94811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,18,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Sheldon Adelson and LVS Corp Pushing for New York City Casino<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n