STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
HOUSE DEAN SAYS GAMBLING IMPASSE ‘A GOOD REASON’ FOR VOTERS TO TOSS DEMS
House Dean David Flynn, a lifelong Democrat who first joined the Legislature in 1965 and ran the state for Jimmy Carter’s 1980 presidential campaign, said Thursday the failure to reach agreement on an expanded gambling bill – and, specifically, resistance from Gov. Deval Patrick and the Senate to racetrack slot machines – entitled voters to turn on the state’s ruling party. “I think it’s a good reason for the general public to turn on Democrats,” Flynn told the News Service. “I can see why the general public, the populace, would rebel.” Conference committee talks on expanded gambling legislation are continuing.
Wow...David Flynn using his own form of scare tactics to push through a casino/slot parlor bill -- pass this bill or everyone will vote Republican - EGADS!!! This chick tends to think that he should have said...pass this bill or the special interest groups will threaten not to vote for you....EGADS AGAIN!!Gosh Senator Flynn, we all know you love casinos and despise anyone who doesn't, but have you forgotten that the Massachusetts Democratic Party adopted a resolution to "oppose the legalization of slot machines and any similar efforts to promote addictive and predatory gambling as a means of raising revenues" at a June 6, 2009 Democratic Party Convention held in Springfield, or just think we did? Well, it seems you must have because everyone knows us anti's have memories of elelphants. Well, perhaps you can refresh your memory here. My friend Gladyz did a fabulous job of summing up that effort. A Brilliant job, in fact. So for the love of all that is actually good in this world, please stop with the melodrama....and perhaps focus on the important issues like real economic development, affordable healthcare and emergency prepardness....you know, the things that actually could improve our quality of life in Massachusetts....
GAMBLING OPPONENTS SAY DISAGREEMENT HAS ‘SIDELINED’ OTHER ISSUES
Gambling opponents have latched onto the news that negotiations on casino and slots bills have hit a snag, urging lawmakers to drop their efforts and focus on other “more significant” proposals. “It’s well-past time for the Speaker and Senate President to stop this greed-driven secret soap opera and focus on producing other bills which will have a positive impact on our Commonwealth,” said Kathleen Conley Norbut, president of United to Stop Slots Massachusetts, in a statement. “We all know other, meaningful priorities are being held up and are in danger of failing because of this greed- and power-driven casino ego contest.” In the statement, Norbut and former Attorney General Scott Harshbarger light into lawmakers for failing to have completed work on a health care bill, an economic development measure, criminal record access changes, and disaster preparedness. The group even argues that an impending Supreme Judicial Court appointment – made necessary by the Wednesday announcement that Chief Justice Margaret Marshall is retiring later this year – is taking a backseat to gambling. Gov. Deval Patrick, who is in Iraq Thursday to visit Massachusetts troops, has sole responsibility for nominating a new justice.
Call me a crazy chick, but sidelining important bills to play "rock, paper, scissors" over slots at the tracks and resort casinos is absolutely ridiculous...
- It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. - Democritus
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour
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Is it really any surprise that the welfare of the Commonwealth is put on the back burner? You have to remember who is paying their salary, not the people of Mass., we voted them in and they won't need us again until election time. Special interests ie; casino developers, racetrack owners and lobbyists are pouring money and favors down their fat gullets pressuring them to pass a shoddy bill that only they will prosper from. We elect the politicians and then we sit back and do nothing. We expect them to put the interests of the people first, such is certainly not the case. Why would anyone spend millions to get a job that only pays a fraction of that? Because special interests are buying them jobs to ensure that their interests come first. Follow the money. Who contributed to their campaigns? Who and how much is being spent on lobbyists? Why are they in such a rush to pass a bill with no safeguards for the public. They all know that the drawbacks of these bills far outweigh the benefits to the general population so why keep pushing a dead horse? Deep pockets can hide many secrets. Ban lobbyists, limit campaign chests and put everyone on equal footing. Oh yeah I forgot the odds always favor the house, especially when the games are rigged.
Has anyone mentioned the costs to the state from casinos? Who will keep things fair? Who will investigate their "games" and buisness practices? Who will investigate these money laundering buisness? Who will be answering the emergency calls? Who will pick up the tab for the inevitable bankruptcies, broken homes, addictions. How many new agencies are going to be developed as watchdogs? Who will be on them and how will they be picked? By the people who want casinos so bad they will throw you under a bus (that is probably going to a casino). If the elected officials won't protect us from predatory buisness practices who will?
Come on everyone! Let's go to war over the lack of slot machines! Why... why... it's positively un-American!!
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