The "Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil" AG

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, unlike her predecessors, lacked the courage to take a stand on Predatory Gambling in the Commonwealth and even ignored omissions in the Senate version of the bill until embarrassed by former Attorney General Scott Harshbarger to do so.

Regardless of whether you review the House version and amendments or the Senate version and amendments, regardless of what erupts from behind the closed doors of the Conference Committee, there are some serious flaws in the legislation that fail to protect consumers and fail to prevent crime and corruption.

If an inexperienced lay person can itemize those flows, they're glaring.

The extensive legislation may be found here.

Is the Massachusetts AG calling for an Independent Cost Benefit Analysis of Expanded Gambling because of the high costs that will cripple her department?

NO!

Instead, the comments below are striking. Maybe the AG is right and proper - but it sure seems like political grandstanding in an election year.

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is demanding that Cape Wind’s developers disclose cost and profit estimates for the energy project and is questioning whether power from the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm would be a good deal for consumers.

The attorney general said she wants the cost and profit numbers made public so all can see whether the deal is cost-effective.

Martha,

Let's not pretend you're protecting consumers when you failed to oppose Predatory Gambling! That's simply too much to swallow!