A major labor union and a conservative group central to the tea party movement have aligned as strange bedfellows in a battle against government aid to a failing Atlantic City casino.
The casino workers’ union, Unite HERE, and Americans for Prosperity are allied, along with the local conservative group Liberty and Prosperity 1776, behind a “No Morgan Stanley Bailout” campaign, an effort to cast plans for a state rescue of the half-built Revel casino as a bailout of the Morgan Stanley, the investment house that is reportedly the casino’s main investor.
Full story: Labor, Tea Party group, ally in Jersey via POLITICO.com.