15 Quotes by Jeffrey Vasser

We want them to be regular customers of Atlantic City before slot machines come into Pennsylvania.

Maureen has been a strong proponent of Atlantic City for years. We know she'll bring her valuable experience and vast body of knowledge to our team in promoting the city and our efforts in supporting the Atlantic City Convention Center and Boardwalk Hall.

Certainly, events like Miss America are valuable to the community. But overall, I think we've moved on.

Going into (Thursday), I - we all - thought that's what we're going to be hearing, that they had a date for us.

I think there's certainly a realization that if we were going to not only maintain our market share, but grow our market share, we need to give people a compelling reason to come to Atlantic City.

Our main role is to change perceptions of the city. We can't do 12 different things.

We were all caught off guard a little bit. One question I never got to ask Art (McMaster) was 'when did you come to this conclusion?' In hindsight, maybe the fact that we hadn't gotten a date yet should have suggested something. But I think we all thought we were working to keep it here.

We were not going to go there. We know it would have put them under.

Yes, we were all shocked. I don't think anybody really knew it was coming.