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- Dear Mr. Bond
- The Dimasi Code
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- 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
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- Slots for Tots 2009
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- 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
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- 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
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- Slots for Tots - Part 1
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- 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:
standing and applauding - yet another excellent blog....Shame on the Teachers Union and shame on the Governor...
I'm sorry, but the whole "casinos are the only way...if you have a better idea, bring it" argument is so narrow minded and weak....and this Govenernor is using it while dangling that mythical carrot promising $$$$ out to the unions....ugh!
It really makes one wonder how the heck Massachusetts survived this long without Deval....together we can exploit Massachusetts.
Thank you for putting this into perspective, Gladys. Well done!
You have taken my breath away with the lofty expectations for our young!
How inspiring!
Thanks so much, Devalue! We'll always remember you!
(And you most of all, Gladys!)
Wow- very effective.
There's got to be a way to have that seen in the community, so those apathetic parents that don't visit this website can see what the future may hold for their children...maybe they'll start to care.
I know...maybe Dr. Sullivan would allow parents to view this on parent/teacher night!
Forward this blog to him and hear what he has to say in reply.
It'll be an interesting answer, I'm sure.
I'm a member of a fairly low number union. This whole casino deal makes me feel ashamed. Unions are organized for workers rights, pay and benefits.As for the Educators in this state,Uneducated fools from educating schools! They think they're protecting their jobs but they have no idea what they're getting into.
Does anybody remember the IBEW members at the rotary this past summmer? They supported the Wamp casino eventhough there was less than a chance that they would win a bid. The agreement does not include the unions!
It would be nice to have the governor respond to this in front of children.
Top notch again Gladys. I wish the MTA and everyone else in favor of this thing would realize there is a big fat juicy worm in that casino apple.
Thanks Gladys,
This is the most disturbing part of the whole argument. To think that our school committee and Dr Sullivan would support a CASINO in order to raise money for our childrens education is a huge disappointment to me.
The example that is being set is not in the best interest of our children or the educational system. We must realize it is not all about the money, it is about teaching our children that we must work to pay for the things we need, and our ethics and standards are not for sale to the highest bidder.
Gov. Patrick is the biggest disappointment of all.
I want to be a politician or a bureaucrat who can get all of those unreported and limitless political contributions allowed by the Indian tribe exception in the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. Also, then everyone in my family can get a high paid nothing job at an Indian casino as a pay-off for allowing the poor people of the state to get ripped off by the unregulated and uninspected slot machines at Indian casinos.
How many people do you think understand that a court made doctrine allows Indian casinos to operate outside of the hundreds of state and local laws that protect the workers in Indian casinos and businesses, the customers who are injured or cheated, the environment and quality of life in the community and even those who make a contract for goods and services in good faith? This same legal doctrine allows tribal businesses to use all of the expensive public services and infrastructure the community provides while evading all of the taxes needed to pay for them. This legal immunity doctrine is why no good comes from any Indian casino and even promises made by tribes to pay money and other benefits to a community are largely hollow and uninforceable.
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