No Press Allowed

From our friends up north, Granite State Coalition, this sounds Oh, soooo familiar, democracy denied, the press excluded.

Oh! Wait! It's in the Casino Playbook.

Casino cheerleaders CANNOT afford an open, public discussion.

That might reveal the flaws in their fictitious promises.

Don't confuse legislators with the facts!

No Press Allowed:
Millennium Hosts Private, Invite-Only Legislator Meetings

Tonight, Wednesday 11/18

Senator Maggie Hassan (D-Exeter) is lighting up the phones inviting selected legislators to the Exeter Inn at 5:00 pm this evening to hear the nearly-bankrupt Millennium's free-money fantasy. No press is allowed. No uninvited persons are allowed. No persons representing anti-gambling groups are invited.



Tomorrow Night, Thursday 11/19

Senator Lou D'Allesandro (D-Manchester) is hosting a free, Millennium-paid dinner for selected legislators in the Puritan Back Room in Manchester at 6:00 pm. No press is allowed. No persons holding anti-predatory gambling views are invited or allowed.


Potential questions for Millennium shills and lackeys:

· Why does Moody's Investors Service rate your client's debt as "subject to very high default risk"?

· Why is Millennium crying poverty in Pennsylvania and asking the legislature to reduce its taxes on table games to 20 percent? Will the company try the same bait-and-switch on the proposed 49 percent tax rate in New Hampshire?

· Does it bother you that the Ontario government (Table 17) found that 60 percent of slots profits come from pathologically addicted gamblers for whom gambling is NOT voluntary?

· Why do 80 percent of Australians think introduction of slot casinos was a mistake and want them removed from their nation or communities?




Yesterday's Gam[bl]ing Study Commission Hearings

In case you didn't see press in the Concord Monitor covering testimony to the Gam[bl]ing Study Commission, James Browning of Common Cause/Pennsylvania warned us of the probability that getting into bed with the gambling industry means that it will wind up running our legislature. This is what Common Cause found happens in every gambling state it has studied.



"Once the gaming industry takes root, it grows deeper quickly because of a relationship with elected officials," said Browning to the Monitor.



Said Rich Killion, paid Millennium lobbyist, to the Monitor: "I find it insulting they allege that elected officials will be impacted by any industry."



Then, Rich, if you are having no impact on the legislature (which would please us greatly), why is Millennium paying you to influence the legislature?



Our New Fact Summary

Check out our newly revised, state-of-the-art summary of the facts about what slots casinos would be a net negative for New Hampshire.