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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
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- 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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2 comments:
Those frickin racinos ruin it for everyone! Imagine the jobs...jobs...jobs...racinos will bring.
Funny, I just heard our oh-so-concerned President talking today in Austin Texas about how a college education and good paying jobs are the most important thing...that we need to motivate our kids to get higher education...in his words " K through 12 should only be the beginning of our children's education"....then I hear some speaker for the AMFCME Union telling a talk show host on NPR that the Guv has taken away 15,000 jobs...good blue collar UNION jobs all because Patrick doesn't like racinos....first of all, I cannot even imagine where that 15,000 job number came from, nor can I equate the jobs that will available at the casinos as blue collar jobs. That is an insult to the so called "blue collar" worker in my book. Why? Well because both my parents were blue collar workers - non union blue collar workers. In my opinion, if your a labor union leader, instead of whining on a radio show about lost racino jobs that never existed to begin with ...insist that that "responsible" bill requires casino investors to hire locally for construction and all casino related jobs...which they don't have to do.
jobs...jobs...jobs...its not about the law, or right or wrong..its about jobs...low paying jobs...
Oh, and he also said that 40 other States have gambling casinos and are doing just fine....no need to worry about social impacts or any of that other silly stuff....40 States??? Have I missed something here?
15,000 jobs = 30,000 jobs/2
30,000 jobs was the highly paid Mass. AFL/CIO spokesperson's estimate in Oct. 2009.
By July of 2010, predatory gambling opponents had proven that number pretty much insanely inaccurate. So, he cut it in half - still high, but it worked for their purposes.
Not 40 states. Some states, like Virginia and Massachusetts have only race tracks. 28 states have casinos. Most states, but not all, have lotteries. People who want to promote gambling as just another form of entertainment like to suggest that "gambling is everywhere", and lump places like CA where they have over 40 casinos, with VA where there is one racino.
As for all those gambling states doing just fine - the two largest deficits in the country are in Nevada (56.6 %), and New Jersey (37.4 %), followed closely by Connecticut at 29.2 %.
Comparatively Massachusetts' deficit as a percentage of total budget is just 8.5 % - the fifth smallest deficit in the country. Tied for 4th smallest is Virginia, that other no-casino state.
Massachusetts continues to sees strong job growth every month. A full 17% of the nation's new private sector jobs were created here in the Commonwealth.
See this post from June on how "well" some other casino states are doing.
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