I didn't want to make a big post out of this happy birthday card for CasinoFacts. The posting honor goes to the Belicose Bumpkin who started this anti-casino revolution.
So, I'd like to personally thank him and his two cohorts who sat around a kitchen table one evening bravely standing up for their community by creating this organization. While I'm at it, I'd like to thank their like-minded friends and their neighbors - one of whom is an old friend from who asked me to come to Middleboro last April (or was it May?) to see for myself what was going on.
So... now that my life is ruined...
Just kidding!
Thank you CFO founders for having the courage to do it, to stand by it, and to stand by US...
Congratulations on all you have accomplished in only one year. You have much to be proud of.
Thank you Gladys and of course to all of the hard working board members, and other bloggers who make up the family of those who stand up for each other.
You are the "citizen soliders" .. informing, educating, advocating, and refusing to be steam rolled...
My name is Mary Tufts, and I live in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
In early 2007 I first heard about land right down the street in Middleboro being sold to build a casino, and knew the problems a casino would create weren't going to stop short at the town border.
Aside from voting, I'd never participated in government, so I didn't know what to expect when I went to Middleboro town hall to sit in on an informational meeting about the casino - but I didn't expect to hear an attorney, who claimed to be an expert in tribal law, telling everyone that it was all over. To give up and sign on the dotted line.
That didn't seem right to me. It didn't even seem American to me.
I heard a lot of pros and cons of expanded gambling that night, and over the next few years, but most of the things I learned scared me. Witnessing the process scared me more. So I guess I just decided to stop being scared, and start fighting.
I met a lot of fantastic (and not so fantastic) people along the way, and became part of grassroots movement to preserve quality of life, kick corporate influence out of politics, and rid government of it's gambling addiction.
Welcome to my adventures in activism.
- Mary (aka Gladys)
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Hi everyone.
I didn't want to make a big post out of this happy birthday card for CasinoFacts. The posting honor goes to the Belicose Bumpkin who started this anti-casino revolution.
So, I'd like to personally thank him and his two cohorts who sat around a kitchen table one evening bravely standing up for their community by creating this organization. While I'm at it, I'd like to thank their like-minded friends and their neighbors - one of whom is an old friend from who asked me to come to Middleboro last April (or was it May?) to see for myself what was going on.
So... now that my life is ruined...
Just kidding!
Thank you CFO founders for having the courage to do it, to stand by it, and to stand by US...
Congratulations on all you have accomplished in only one year. You have much to be proud of.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CFO.
Love,
Gladys
Well done and beautifully understated. Thanks for being there with us. Nothing said it like Gladys! No wonder the pros are so angry!
Thank you Gladys and of course to all of the hard working board members, and other bloggers who make up the family of those who stand up for each other.
You are the "citizen soliders" .. informing, educating, advocating, and refusing to be steam rolled...
Happy Birthday!
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