Massachusetts: Governor "Slot Barn" and his back room deals

Everyone's talking about it...except the media......



Wampanoag financial backers a terror funding source?


Are Wampanoag casino financial backers funding terrorism? The progressive Florida Clarion is reporting that the financial backers behind the Mashpee Wampanoag casino development and lobbying interests in Massachusetts are funding and associating with Islamic extremists on U.S. terrorist lists.

It best the question - Will Governor Deval Patrick’s and Senator Therese Murray’s sweetheart deal creating a Mashpee Wampanoag-only casino zone in Southeastern Massachusetts be used to fund overseas terrorists with tax-free and unregulated gaming profits?

Read the full story here:

http://floridaclarion.com/2011/09/genting-connected-to-islamic-extremists/


Boston Globe calls Governor Patrick's casino bill deeply flawed
Boston Globe: Casino bill deeply flawed; rank & file should kill it

“Any casino legislation should also provide a level playing field for would-be operators. Instead, under the current proposal, Native American tribes would have a one-year head start for the license designated for Southeastern Massachusetts. It effectively amounts to a no-bid contract for the Mashpee Wampanoag… carving out a special process for a group with strong lobbying muscle remains problematic. Patrick opposed no-bid contracts in negotiations last year - and shouldn’t have shifted now.”

Read the full story here:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2011/09/08/casino_bill_is_deeply_flawed_rank_and_file_should_kill_it/


South Coast Today - Remove of preferential Indian gaming language!
South Coast Today editorial claims “Cards are stacked against Southeastern Massachusetts” with the Governor’s special interest gaming bill.

“While western and northern Massachusetts get to start clean in seeking the best option for casinos there, Southeastern Massachusetts will operate with a big handicap: a pledge to allow Indian tribes a year to work out their own deals with partners of their own choosing. And that means the interests of the region as a whole and of everyone who lives here come after the financial interests of the tribes.

“That’s not comforting, especially considering how badly Mashpee Wampanoag tribal leaders treated the town of Middleboro, which they wooed as a mate previously in a plan to land a resort casino, then spurned for another pretty face when Fall River came knocking with a dowry of ready-to-develop acreage that UMass Dartmouth had been promised for the new biotech park the region had been pushing for years..,.”

Read the full story here:
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110828/OPINION/108280358/-1/NEWS