Christie Goes Off on ‘Trainwreck’, 'Absolutists' GOP: Could War With Adelson Be Brewing
New Jersey Governor Republican Chris Christie lashed out at his own party on Monday night, calling them a “train wreck”. That just happens to be the same term used by one of the GOP’s biggest donors, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, to describe legalized online gambling in the US.
Coincidental timing?
Adelson has embarked on a campaign to “educate the public about the ills of online gambling” ahead of New Jersey launching its real money online gambling sites next week. Web gambling in the Garden State is one of Christie’s prized projects at the moment. His is one of three states now offering real money wagering on the Internet (the other two being Nevada and Delaware).
Christie slammed the national Republican Party during the Wall Street Journal’s annual CEO Council, telling a group of CEOs that the GOP's poor showings at recent elections were a result of "bad decision-making and a loss of courage."
What's wrong with Washington, Christie said, "primarily is the people."
"What we have in Washington now are absolutists," the Governor said, adding that the recent government shutdown "was a train wreck everybody saw coming for months."
Christie is a likely frontrunner for GOP Presidential candidate in 2016.
Odds are he’s not too worried about the Adelson backlash. The casino billionaire will be nearing 83 by the time Christie is set to run and there is no guarantee Adelson is going to maintain all his feistiness by then.
- Gilbert Horowitz, Gambling911.com
