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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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15 comments:
Beautiful job, as always, Gladys!
At least Glenn Marshall will have a few years in a federal country club to contemplate your Love Story. Maybe he'll even have company if he's a good boy and cooperates. Wonder who that might be?
Thanks for letting me do a cameo.
I love love, happy endings and all your videos, Gladys.
Great video!
You always do a good job of making the point with humer.
I second what blogger shark said.We would be lost without you!
...perhaps not lost - but certainly grumpier!
Who said "inevitable" anyway?
Thanks to all who worked so hard to prove it wasn't inevitable.
Now onward to Beacon Hill so the truth can be heard!
Not everyone who follows this blog lives in Middleboro.
What are the casino "players" up to? Seems kind of quiet.
Gladys, we've watched this several times and it's just wonderful choreography! Thanks again for a wonderful video.
OMG!
What a clean new look!
I didn't recognize the place.
Palmer needs someone like Tracy to squash that inevitability bug.
Gladys,
Another fanstastic video!
I'm not sure which makes me happiest; my name in your blog, or the fact that you mentioned THE HAWAII DECISION!!!
Thanks for all the laughs. Its been quite a ride.
Tracy
PS - Just in case I haven't mentioned it before...
IT AIN'T COMING!!!
Gladys you've gone and done it again, and again I have to thank you.
I have heard Tracy talk at meetings, I have had her answer my questions, and she has gone back to do more research if she didn't have or thought to have had the complete answer. She educated herself to find out for herself what process does a tribe have to go through to get a tribal casino.
Her parents must be very proud of her, I know we would be.
Keep telling us the the truth Gladys.
Thank you Gladys and thank you Tracy. What a team, and one that you can't beat even though the pro-casino's have tried for two years, and thanks to Gladys, Tracy, & the other fact-finding bloggers, never ending fact finding quests, I am now a die hard believer and have the facts to back it up.
Yes, thank you both for always being able to back up your comments with documentations and where you found them.
TRACY, YOU WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG, "IT AIN'T COMING"
AMEN!
FYI everyone - Carl has a comprehensive blog here which goes into much more detail about both the Carcieri and Hawaii decisions and why they spell
IT AIN'T COMIN'!
Check it out!
Tracy and Gladys,
You both Rock.
Back at ya, Jacquie.
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