Where is Mrs. Jones when you need her?

Where is Mrs. Jones when you need her?

We were inspired to go out sloshing through the slush and rain knocking on doors telling people of Deval Patrick and his messages of "Take a chance on hope". Patrick spoke of, our schools, our highways and how "we all have a responsibility to help pay for them." Who understood this to mean casinos? Instead of making the hard decision to share in the pain in hard times, we would be asked to throw the hardest hit, the most desperate under the bus to save those that know better from having a tax increase?

In his inaugural address Deval Patrick proclaimed, "For a very long time now we have been told that government is bad, that it exists only to serve the powerful and well-connected, that its job is not important enough to be done by anyone competent, let alone committed, and that all of us are on our own. Today we join together in common cause to lay that fallacy to rest, and to extend a great movement based on shared responsibility from the corner office to the corner of your block and back again." But here he is ready to sign into law a bill that would the largest transfer of wealth from the least powerful to the well-connected. Other than signing the predatory gambling/happy hour bill, what have you done today to make you feel proud?

The words will fade, and the pain and devastation will be Deval's legacy. There have been numerous reports that bringing in casinos will cause long term job losses and decline in revenue. An article in today's Boston Globe claims that Deval was given such a report done by the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank in 2007. In 10 years, when this goes south, he will not be able to claim he did not understand the risk when signing this bill.

"So if you messed up down the street in fron of Mrs. Jones, she would, as we used to say, go upside your head, as if you were hers. And then she'd call home, so you'd get it twice. Wonderful characters in that neighborhood. People who looked out for each other." - Deval Patrick



Please send a message to the Deval Patrick that Mrs. Jones would not be happy with closed door deals, special interest provisions and HAPPY HOUR. If he signs this bill, it will be clear to all in the future that slot parlors did not bring the promised jobs and revenue, but instead brought misery and cast a shadow on a government that chose to offer up it's citizens for profit to the predators. -Sue Kennedy, Administrative Assistant

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Governor Deval Patrick
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