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The Gladys Kravitz Video Vault
- Adam Bond Deflowers Middleboro
- At the Signpost Up Ahead
- The Big Concern
- Casino Road
- The Courtship of Massachusetts
- Dear Mr. Bond
- The Dimasi Code
- Dogstock
- Dogs Playing Liar's Poker
- Exposing Casino Facts!
- The Factory
- Happy Gladoween
- Inconsistency by Design
- Oh No You Dit'nt
- Selling People Dreams for Cash
- Six Degrees of a Casino
- Slots for Tots - Part 1
- Slots for Tots - Part 2
- Slots for Tots 2009
- It's a Cookbook!
- When Carcieri Met Salazar: A Love Story
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- Adam Bond Deflowers Middleboro
- At the Sign Post Up Ahead
- Casino U
- Dogs Playing Liar's Poker
- Dogstock
- Earmuffs
- Emerald City
- Exposing Casino Facts!
- Founding Father Knows Best
- Gladys Goes to the Statehouse
- Happy Gladoween
- Holding a Sign
- House of the Rising Son
- I'll Have Another Cup of Kool-Aid, You'll Have Another Piece of Pie
- In Glenn We Trust?
- Inconsistency by Design
- Lawmakers See Eye to Eye on Gambling Bill, Fail to Notice Iceberg
- Legacy
- Lessons from the Loring
- Let Them Eat Slots
- Melvin
- Middleboro Casino and the Circle of Doom
- Middleboro Casino Theme Song
- Mrs. Kravitz Goes to Washington
- Nevermore
- One Possible Explanation
- Realty Check
- Ring of Fire
- School Daze
- Slotonomics 101
- Slots for Tots - Part 1
- Slots for Tots - Part 2
- Slots for Tots 2009
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Stewards of the Land
- Tank Man
- The Big Concern - Part 1
- The Courtship of Massachusetts
- The Dead Parrot Clause
- The DiMasi Code
- The Myth of Inevitability, Part 1
- The Playbook
- The Sky is Falling
- The Top Ten
- Votestock
- When Stupid People Ruled the Earth
- Why Casinos are Not Inevitiable in Massachusetts
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Who is Gladys?
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.
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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10 comments:
4:30pm, just received a call from my daughter, "Mom, you have GOT to go on Glady's current blog!!" it is the best yet, EVER!!!, AND IT'S SHORT!!"
Well, I said, "OK, but we've said this before, I'm sure she has to be running out of these great ideas for a blog, and it's short, so how (extra) good could it be?"
Ran upstairs, just finished watching it, yup, it's short, BUT, another grand slam, out of the park for Gladys. And it's short! How can you make your point and do it a minute???????????????
Gotta go, have to call some friends!!
This is another one for which I have to wait to stop laughing before posting a reasonable comment. Just beautiful!
They sure do love those shorts!
Excellent...simply wonderful!
Shelly
Gladys, you are never short on ideas. Continue in your quest. Thanks for the plug. Its our site. Your work is always excellent.
OMG! They're still talking about it? They're those folks who only wish they'd fit into that size again!
We love you! We support you! And we were aiming much higher than those posters.
Save those shorts. Someday they'll be worth a fortune especially after the promotion they receive in other forums. We don't know how you do it, but that was just so wonderful and funny. You have great talents to condemn with wit. Maybe after the bestseller and screenplay you could consider a clothing line.
So if I understand this correctly, Faneuil Hall and the MBTA have both endorsed CasinoFacts.org? Or am I just incredibly stupid?
Guriltai, I don't know if you're incredibly stupid or not, but you do seemed to have missed the point of the video.
The point is, I wore that shirt all over Boston, was televised and photographed in it, and a lot of people saw me in it. And therefore, they saw a person opposed to a casino.
Which is why one pro-person who was at the protest, made up a lie about my shorts - which they have perpetuated for a year now - to sully the message of the shirt.
And my message, therefore is: Aim higher.
Quriltai, Gladys is ever the modest diplomat, and subtle criticizer of the crass monsters amongst us! Because Gladys is talented, creative and more importantly, EFFECTIVE, her opponents are forced to resort to the rudest comments they can conjure. Because their side lacks the facts to support their position, they must assassinate character, resort to the crudest name-calling imaginable, and target Gladys continuously as the bullies they truly are. It's a motley crew incapable of rational discussion of the issues that have formed a mindless gestapo, accused casino opponents of racism, called them Nazis and tossed the most vile insults at them.
The anonymous posters, as well as a local business owner who incorrectly believes he will profit from this endeavor, are widely supported by the local Board of Selectmen, who themselves have perpetuated the venom.
It's a sad time in Middleboro, but one worthy of commenting on to forewarn other communities of the tactics that are employed. Cockroaches run from the light.
Aim higher in all endeavors.
It was NEVER about the SHORTS! They just didn't want to see.
Gladys,
What a totally awesome SHIRT!!
Love the blog, as always you are able to put things into humorous perspective.
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