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6 | The Boardwalk Journal | September 2013 table of contents VOL. 5 ISSUE 9 • September 2013 Atlantic City’s Largest Charter in this issue... 5 GREETINGS FROM ATLANTIC CITY Yacht 11 THE RAW FEED 12 Governor Chris Christie Will Win On Nov. 5, 2013 By A Wide Margin Harry Hurley 17 DEAN RANDAZZO'S JERSEY DEVIL SURF SHOP 28 WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS... Raina Tallent 29 THE FLY GIRL OF THE MONTH 30 WHO WAS FIRST? Lloyd D. Levenson, Esq. 36 WHEN THERE WERE KINGS James J. Leonard Jr., Esq. 40 Q & A with SKIP BRONSON James J. Leonard Jr., Esq. 42 A LOOK AT THE FUTURE OF ONLINE GAMING IN NEW JERSEY & BEYOND • Sightseeing Tours • Private Events Richard D. "Skip" Bronson • Brunch Cruises • Holiday Parties 40 STEVE WYNN MAY BE HEADING The Atlantic City Princess is an 87 ft available for EAST AGAIN, BUT WHERE? Private Charter and Public Cruises. James J. Leonard Jr., Esq. 46 CATCHING UP WITH Check out www.atlanticcityprincess.com for MELISSA GORGA schedules and more information. Rebecca Leonard 50 THE BEST OF THE BOARDWALK: HQ NIGHTCLUB 54 WHO'S WHO: Dr. Jon Pomeroy

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Now Available at Atlantic County The Boardwalk Journal | September 2013 | 9 Senator Jim Whelan participating in United Way's "Stuff the Bus" program to provide needed school supplies to students returning to school this September

The 2013 Margate Memorial Lifeguard Races Chuck Gowdy and Ashton Funk break through a set of waves as the pair gets off to a great start in the doubles row. They finished by a large margin to take 1st in the Memorial Races in Margate City at the Decatur Ave Beach Photo:Tom Briglia/PhotoGraphics 10 | The Boardwalk Journal | September 2013 WANTED

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The Boardwalk Journal | September 2013 | 11 politics by Harry Hurley, Political Editor of The Boardwalk Journal Governor Chris Christie Will Win On Nov. 5, 2013 By A Wide Margin But, "It Ain't Over Until the Fat Lady Sings" New Jersey State Senator Barbara Buono, D-18 knows that her cause is lost. September 3, 2013 Christie said the following at an event held at The New Jersey Buono's frustration has mounted and not only is she going to lose big to New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark: Governor Christie ... she is running a very undignified campaign. "It is unfortunate that Senator Buono has decided to go down the same path as In recent days Buono has resorted to attacking Christie over his handling of Governor Corzine did in making comments about my physical appearance," said Superstorm Sandy. Christie.

This is a very unseemly, low blow. Governor Christie's management of Superstorm By contrast, imagine if Christie had made a comment about Buono's appearance. Sandy relief efforts and restoration has rightfully earned him wide acclaim on a The media would go ballistic. It would have become a national incident in minutes. national level. Christie had lap-band weight loss surgery earlier this year. He is noticeably lighter, Christie's leadership has been exemplary. He's consistently reached across the aisle although no exact number of pounds lost has been released to the public. My guess to United States President Barack Obama and his Cabinet. Christie has worked very is that the Governor has lost at least 40 pounds. well in a bi-partisan manner with New Jersey Democrats. Buono's a lawyer. She should have Even worse, Buono has stooped so Harry Hurley is Political Editor serves as the senior programming known that Christie would flip this low as to attack Christie about his of The Boardwalk Journal. Hurley consultant. He has hosted various issue on her big time. She gave him weight. is the president of Harry Hurley the opportunity to say, "I am very programs for local television and disappointed that she has decided Consulting and Communications, is the editor and publisher of Both tactics are terrible. What Buono LLC. He hosts the daily talk to go down that road," said Christie. should also realize is that millions of radio program “Hurley in the his news and information "For me and for other folks across New Jerseyans face a daily battle with Morning” 6-10 a.m. weekdays website,www.harryhurley. New Jersey - many folks - who are the bulge. It's not only wrong to make on Townsquare Media, WPG com. Send comments to challenged by their weight the fact such personal attacks, it's definitely Talk Radio 1450, where he also [email protected]. that someone running for Governor going to backfire on her. would make derisive comments about someone's physical appearance is But, what it really shows is that Buono has not been able to generate any excitement really beneath the office that she's seeking. I'm disappointed that she's done it," said for her campaign. Christie has piled up Democratic endorsements on an almost Christie. daily basis for months. Checkmate! Vintage Christie, who adeptly can take remarks made by his opponents The last straw for Buono may have been when Obama came back to New Jersey and and wrap them right around their own necks, leaving them gasping for air and cover. met with Christie, but, never met with Buono. Desperate candidates who are miles behind resort to desperate tactics. They almost The race for Governor of New Jersey features one of the most prolific candidates for always fall flat. This is no exception. Buono trails Christie by 20-30 points in the re-election in our state's history versus one of the weakest challengers in our history. polls. She literally has almost zero chance to become New Jersey's next Governor. It's one of the worse mismatches in New Jersey history. This despite the fact that New Jersey is one the darkest blue states in America. The most distasteful Buono attack yet was her not so veiled personal attack about Christie's weight. You would have thought that Buono would have remembered But, one should never presume the outcome of an election while it is still in how badly this played out for former Governor Jon Corzine when he played it. progress. Corzine was losing and desperately said that Christie was "throwing his weight around," accompanied by a very unflattering photo of Christie. Because "It ain't over until the fat lady sings."

This backfired on Corzine and it will also boomerang on Buono. Buono said that After Buono's dirty campaign tactics, I simply couldn't resist injecting this phrase; "the Governor frolicking on the beach in his “Stronger than the Storm” television which is an unfortunate stereotypical reference, whose origin dates back to the days commercials does not make me want to go to the Shore." of the overweight sopranos of The Grand Opera.

It was ugly, typical, desperate liberal tripe. They use "code" and lack the guts to Christie will lay a smack down of epic plainly and directly say what they mean. Thereby, they feel that they have built-in proportion on Tuesday, November 5, plausible deniability. 2013.

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14 | The Boardwalk Journal | September 2013 Reality TV personality and model Brody Jenner hosted his birthday bash at The Pool After Dark Harrah's Atlantic City Photo:Tom Briglia/PhotoGraphics

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The Boardwalk Journal | September 2013 | 17 8 year old Grace Ann Leonard patiently awaits the arrival of local surfing legend Dean Randazzo for her first ever surf lesson in front of Margaritaville on North Carolina Avenue in Atlantic City

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The Boardwalk Journal | September 2013 | 27 fashion by Raina Tallent, Fashion Editor of The Boardwalk Journal What happens in Vegas..... Every summer I go to Las Vegas for a clothing convention to try and find heard this is also very popular in the clubs in AC also including twerking new lines from the West Coast to bring here to Jersey. It's every woman's and booty popping. These dances as well as the terms "yolo" and "swag" dream! Racks and racks of clothing to choose from all day long. Not to need to disappear. I'm so relieved I have boys. mention seeing styles worn by people all over the world. Apparently, Jillian and I were dead giveaways that we were from Jersey based on our Now most people drink and party their way through Vegas, but Mike and tans, blonde hair, and our Jersey Shore accents. Its 10 hour days, on your I ate our way. I was all shopped out from the convention so we decided to feet the entire time so it only seems only fair that I mix a little business go cabless and walk the strip. Our favorite breakfast spot was the Wicked with pleasure and brought my husband along. Spoon at the Cosmopolitan. Everything was plated in small portions Last year I made the hotel arrangements at the Hard Rock hotel. so you didn't feel like such a pig going up for thirds. We then walked Although the rooms were nice, it wasn't on the strip and the crowd towards the Caesars Forum Shops and there must have been a Gucci and staying there were ratchet! Men were walking around the lobby shirtless, Louis Vuitton at every block. Very similar to Atlantic City, there were wasted at 9am and the music was super loud. This time my husband pawn shops at every corner. We went for lunch there at Spago which is a made the reservations and we stayed at the Aria. It was absolutely Wolfgang Puck restaurant. The food was super fresh, but a bit pricey as it gorgeous with fresh flowers everywhere, exquisite tapestries and seems everything is in Vegas. It was a tie between Spago and the FIVE50 ornaments and we didn't even get into the room yet. The view from the Pizza Bar at the Aria. The most amazing garlic bread I've ever had. room was picturesque with mountains and clouds. The highlight of the room was the toilet. It was a Toto toilet with special amenities featuring a Although it was 110 degrees outside, I thought that if I kept walking heated seat, warm oscillating water for front and back and a dryer. This is I could burn off some calories. Vegas is super impressive with all the on my Chanukah list this year. infrastructures and electronic billboards. The sidewalks are packed with tourists and the locals are selling water for a dollar and giving out Lately, my idea of a wild night is going out to dinner, having a few playing cards. As in playing cards, I mean naked pictures of women cocktails and going to bed. So I promised my husband that for one with the phone numbers. I've always wondered if you actually got the night I would put my old girl in the picture. Back in lady panties aside, and Raina Tallent graduated from the 2009 to bring some of her South college we picked out a male go to a club. Mike made University of Miami in 2001 and Beach fashion sense and unique stripper from the computer arrangements for a table at returned to Margate where she taste to the South Jersey area. for a friend’s birthday. 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“Columbus sailed voyage to the New World by a fleet from discoveries made by classical Roman the ocean blue in Mali, in sub-Saharan Africa, in navigators more than 1,000 years fourteen hundred approximately 1311. Professor Ivan before Christopher set sail. Thus, a and ninety two.” van Sertima of Rutgers was the leading Second Century B.C. Roman ship, Among the huge proponent of this theory, pointing to loaded with amphora, was supposedly collection of facts characteristic African features on the found in Guanabara Bay, near Rio de which we were giant Olmec stone heads found Janeiro, demonstrating at least one forced to memorize back in school, this throughout Mesoamerica. contact between the New and Old handy rhyme stays with us even long Other Olmec heads bear features Worlds far earlier than is usually after we have forgotten “i before e accept which appear to be distinctly Asian, admitted. after c or when. . . (however that ends).” giving strength to the claims of Chinese For that matter, there are even those Because this article will probably be expeditions crossing the northern who believe that the ancient Egyptians printed before Columbus Day, I thought Pacific to the California coast as early as had contact with the Americas, I would discuss the explorers who came the year 500. Some Scots point to pointing to traces of tobacco and coca to America before Columbus. Henry Sinclair as having explored the leaves found in ancient mummies. In discussing them, I am not North American coast almost 100 years (Both plants growing only in the New disparaging the great Italian navigator before Columbus’s arrival. (There are World.) As potential confirmation of and his courageous crew, whose carvings in Sinclair’s Rosslyn Chapel this, in 1954, the “Khufu Ship” was explorations certainly kicked off the which supposedly depict Indian corn.) dug out of the bedrock at Giza and modern wave of cross-Atlantic trips and The Irish make the claim that St. demonstrated that the Egyptians were the opening of the “New World” to Brendan (the Navigator) crossed the building large and sophisticated sailing European influence. And, of course, it is Atlantic to North America in a leather vessels (bigger than any of those used preposterous to talk about any of these boat in the Sixth Century. Tim Severin by Columbus) in 2500 B.C. men “discovering” a continent which actually recreated Brendan’s trip in a Whether some, none, or all of these had been the home of millions of Native similar boat in 1976. His vessel, lashed claims are true, I am safe in saying that Americans for thousands of years. together with two miles of leather every race and nationality is anxious to When I was in school, the only other thongs, wrapped in 49 tanned ox hides discover this wonderful land, and European explorer mentioned as a and sealed with grease, sailed from particularly the glorious Jersey Shore, possible precursor to Columbus was the Ireland to Newfoundland, a distance of and I welcome every royal barge, Viking, Leif Ericson, who we all picture 4,500 miles. caravan, or outrigger which comes to wearing a hat with horns on it and The Welsh look to their Prince Madoc, sample our famous hospitality. swinging a mighty broadsword. Even who supposedly explored the continent the most conservative archaeologists in the late Twelfth Century. Consistent accept that there was at least one Viking with this theory, Thomas Jefferson settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, four wrote a letter to Meriwether Lewis Lloyd D. Levenson is Chief Executive or five hundred years before Columbus. advising him to search for Welsh Officer of the Atlantic City-based law firm Viking sagas tell us that Snorri speaking Indians up the Missouri River. Cooper Levenson and Chairman of the firm’s Thorfinnsson was the first European Casino Law Departments in Atlantic City and Italians disappointed by the toppling of Las Vegas. Mr. Levenson may be reached at born on the American continent. Columbus from the head of the list can (609)344-3161 or by email at Far less well known are accounts of a always point to claims of far earlier [email protected]. 30 | The Boardwalk Journal | September 2013 During the summer, Cooper Levenson hosted young students from Atlantic City neighborhoods, offering them glimpses into the everyday workings of a law firm. Students sat in on depositions, were treated to court tours, and spent time with various lawyers. We are proud to be one of seven area businesses in the Business Mentorship Program.

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36 | The Boardwalk Journal | September 2013 From 1971 to 1975, boxing fans and the world in general were captivated by the trilogy of fights between Muhammad Ali and his able fisted nemesis “Smokin’” Joe Frazier.

The 1980’s gave us now legendary rivalries between Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors, “Sugar” Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran and the apex of one of the most important battles in the history of capitalism, the epic battle between Coke and Pepsi.

From 1995 to 2000, two of the most prominent names in gaming, Steve Wynn and Donald Trump, waged a contentious battle over a prime piece of real estate in a city that much like its combatants, was in its prime.

The clash of these white-collar titans garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek and even 60 Minutes.

This was many years before Donald Trump’s unkempt hair and public feuds with everyone from Barack Obama to Rosie O’Donnell became punch lines for snarky journalists, much like Atlantic City itself.

But back in the late 90’s, if Atlantic City had a king, it was no doubt the brash and equally brilliant New York based real estate baron named Trump, who oversaw three of the city’s casinos, each bearing his name; Trump Plaza, Trump Marina and Trump Taj Mahal, the latter of which was the city’s crowned jewel in the 90’s.

But when Trump, then 38, came to Atlantic City in 1984, opening Trump Plaza, which for obvious reasons billed itself as ‘The Centerpiece of The Boardwalk’, the city belonged to the then 42 year old Stev