![]() “We’re the smokescreen,” Dilorenzo, president of the firefighters Local 198, which has been fighting a bill that would give the state the right to terminate union contracts, said over a turkey club and an iced tea. It escaped no one’s attention that two of the men most enmeshed in the near death spiral of the seaside resort town-the debt-saddled casino owner whose multiple corporate bankruptcies had foretold if not hastened the city’s financial misfortune and the governor whose latest plan to rescue the city sounded to many like a politically driven death warrant-had found common cause on the national political stage. Now the Ducktown was packed with cops and firefighters. ![]() The Friday before, city workers had gotten paid for the first time in a month.
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