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New Jersey Casino Commissioner Out of Job

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey -- As reported by the Press of Atlantic City: "The Casino Control Commission is no longer whole, and nobody seems to know why.

"This much is known: Commissioner Ralph Frulio is out of a job after 61/2 months, the shortest tenure for any commissioner in the agency's 26 years.

"...While never assured renomination for a full five-year term, Frulio said, he was also was never told his tenure would be so brief.

"Gov. James E. McGreevey, who originally nominated Frulio, has not nominated anyone else to replace him.

"...`There are plans to renominate him once the Legislature reconvenes,' McGreevey spokesman Micah Rasmussen said Wednesday.

"Rasmussen said Frulio's renomination fell through the cracks. The administration may have assumed that casino commissioners, like other state appointees, had an unlimited holdover after a term expired, Rasmussen said. He also blamed infrequent meetings of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which handles commission nominations..."

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