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- 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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14 comments:
That was great.
Brilliant!
After all the rain, you're a ray of sunshine. Thanks for being there.
karen
Thanks guys!
I've been contemplating this video for almost 2 years, so that's really nice to hear. This sci-fi morality tale from decades past perfectly foretells our present.
But today, we're not facing "Kanamits" - it's "Casinoits", "Slotwits" and their prey and our State's potential downfall, "Nitwits".
If you like the video, take it viral. Send it to all your friends and your favorite elected decision makers!
Gladys,
I suspect most of our representatives are already sneaking peeks at your blog to see what you're saying, as are the Flying Monkeys and the casino mangement teams.
Devan,
One can hope.
But it means so much more coming from a constituent, along with some personal message like "please don't be an idiot like the guy in this video - because right now - that's what it looks like." Or something else from the heart.
As for casino management teams - I suspect not. They're all convinced of a "done deal".
The current media coverage is certainly well orchestrated and overwhelming. Especially Adelman offering to expand his Las Vegas crud to Marlboro.
You were right from the beginning about the destruction caused by gambling addiction! I've been reading everything I can about the deliberate tactics employed to sucker in the most vulnerable. The most interesting things I've discovered have been that gambling addicts are more likely to commit suicide because the debts and dishonesty destroy their safety net and the gambling industry consistently promotes underestimates of the problem gamblers.
I'm still waiting for someone to step forward with a state that has solved its fiscal problems with gambling. California just keeps sinking deeper in the muck with all of their casinos and slots.
If "impartial" sources with no connection to the gambling industry are saying that it costs $3 or $4 for every $1 slot machines pay to the state, is this telling us the mathematical competence of Beacon Hill?
Great Job Gladys!
nancy, check out the addiction and crime stats in Nevada.It'll knock your socks off.
Wow!!!!
"The Sucker Zone".... absolutely.
"not the brightest planet".... you can say that again.
tying in the twilight zone like you did
....priceless.
Great job.
And yet... the really truly madly sad thing about our situation is - there's a lot of legislators out there who've already interpreted the book's title correctly - and don't care.
We'll win this, but it still makes me sad to think these people are our reps.
reps. As in someone who speaks for those he or she represents.
Or, as they would actually have us be known: "An ingredient in someone else's soup."
Yes,
It's the DELIBERATE deception on the part of the reps. that is even more maddening.
Tell me they can't look at Ca. and see what casinos are doing there. They can, they just CHOOSE not to.
Let me correct that last statement.
The reps. are looking at Ca., but (like you said) they just don't care
...which is even more pathetic.
Gladys,
Your best by far! Loved it....
to serve man - oh, I get it. It's only entertainment and a nice meal at a five star restaurant!
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