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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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7 comments:
Should we change the spelling to "DEVIL"?
I'm sorry I ever voted for him.
I didn't vote for him...I thought he was a typical politican who said what we wanted to hear. I wish he had proved me wrong! Gladys, you are too funny!! I really enjoy your blogs!
I didn't vote for him either.
I noticed how he couldn't resist the temptation to slap around Republican leadership (twice) in his speech. Typical....
typical is right. The more I read, the more sad I get. What a shame all of this is. I love this state and it breaks my heart to have this govenor sell out...put a price on our way of life. I truely do not believe that you can buy happiness, or that money is the answer to all problems. Maybe that is easy for me to say, I make a decent living...a decent, honest living that I worked hard for all my life...like many of us have. I want the opportunity to raise my son in a quiet and safe community where family vaules and personal integrity still mean something. Too bad this govenor doesn't care about that.
I agree with you carverchick.
Gladys thanks for your support and humor.sometimes I get really down about my town becoming an instant city-you help cheer me.I still don't understand why people are not getting what is going to happen.I think it comes down to having differing concepts of living:when I was young I ask my uncle why didn't he clear out the mini forest behind his house for a nice,easy lawn.He said,"but then I couldn't sit here and enjoy the sights and sounds of nature."I enjoyed that beauty and cannot believe now that I ever ask that question.
Patrick Deval came across as a slick, glib tongued politician in his announcement. Now he has to sell his magic pill solution to the Legislature. Problem is, as one senator remarked, "Once you start taking the medicine, you can't stop." I'm really sooo disappointed that so many people are buying his spiked Kool-Aid.
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