He said surveys conducted by the state do not indicate the problem is nearly as serious as Rimm and Klein contend. As far back as '81, Marty was watchdogging our morality. Last spring, The Viking, Atlantic City High School's monthly newspaper, surveyed 1,120 of the school's students and found that 64 percent of them have illegally gambled in the casinos at least once. It is no happy circumstance that the Golden Nugget casino is two blocks away from Atlantic City High School. It came as no surprise to me when the New Jersey Casino Control Commission recently released figures revealing that more than 10,000 minors were caught on casino floors during May, June and July.
Statistics show that casinos are a magnet-like attraction for young people.
I'd bet that Reagan would not have chosen O'Connor if she was a man.