Bond: Full of Sound and Fury, but meaningless

Phew! Never allow facts or reality to dampen flawed ideas!


Mr. Bond, with a wholly undeserved ego, tends to  make outrageous public comments to attract attention with little consideration of process seeks the spotlight...yet again .....

 

Check these out for some informed history:
Adam Bond is a Candidate for State Representative with Experience
The Book of Adam

One of my personal favorites was Mr. Bond calling Casino Opponents BRAYING DONKEYS!

And then denying that he said it!

And then there are the attacks by Mr. Bond, ridiculing opponents who now demands public hearings???





Like a petulant child, Mr. Bond continues his temper tantrum just changing his targets!

CAMPAIGN 2012 LETTER: State must not put cart before the horse on tribal casino compact


According to a recent report, Massachusetts Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby said that when it comes to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s application for the federal government to take land into trust, “We’ll give the tribe whatever the appropriate amount of time is to get that decision made. We would ... let the tribe have their fair shot.”

It appears that the Massachusetts Gaming Commission is making a presumption that is directly contradicted by the U.S. Supreme Court, and has actually decided that it will ignore our highest court’s ruling that the BIA cannot grant the Mashpee Wampanoags any land into trust.

By making this currently unsupportable presumption under the law as it stands today, it appears to be favoring a tribal casino over any commercial casino interests waiting in the wings to take over the Mashpee position in Southeastern Massachusetts. This presumption also seems counterintuitive, since the general consensus seems to be that a commercial casino in the region would be more profitable to the state, and would be subject to greater regulation.

It seems that the Gaming Commission would be better off to have a public hearing with the Mashpee Tribe and its attorneys, to have the tribe show the Commission that their land-into-trust application is actually viable. What theory are they using? What method will they pursue? How long will it take?

At that hearing, those who believe that there is no viable way for the land to go into trust, could actually lay out their position, and the commission could then come to its own determination of viability and avoid presumptions.

To simply presume that the tribe can overcome the immovable objects in their path, and to let them have their “fair shot” at getting land into trust is a little ridiculous — particularly when they have not been made to show the commission that they have any shot at all. The commission’s procedure also appears to deny the commercial casino ladies-in-waiting an equal competitive shot at a casino in this region, if this region has to wait for the tribe to have its “fair shot.”

I would hope that our legislators would see the foolishness of the commission’s presumption and demand some initial and public proffer by the tribe of its ability to take the land into trust BEFORE they approve any compact with the state. After all, the tribe should know its plan.

Adam Bond
Candidate for 12th Bristol District, House of Representatives
Middleboro


Read more: http://www.tauntongazette.com/newsnow/x1805319494/CAMPAIGN-2012-LETTER-State-must-not-put-cart-before-the-horse-on-tribal-casino-compact#ixzz1yKm7WPcW



BTW, How'd that go for you, Adam?

Middleborough meltdown

January 29, 2009 at 10:29 am

This is all too weird. But if you oppose casino gambling, you can’t help but love it.
Adam Bond, chairman of the Middleborough Board of Selectmen and the guy who did more than anyone to try to bring the world’s largest casino to his adopted hometown, has quit the board. It seems that Bond wanted his fellow selectmen to try to grab more money from the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, which would own the casino, and which is now beset by legal problems, starting with the crimes of its former leader, Glenn Marshall.
(As an aside, it’s a shame that Sal DiMasi’s replacement as Massachusetts House speaker, Robert DeLeo, is a fan of casinos. Casino gambling is bad news, and we shouldn’t want it anywhere. More than anything, though, we need to keep it out of Middleborough.)
Cape Cod Times reporters George Brennan and Stephanie Vosk have a thorough account of the Bond shenanigans, and Alice Elwell of the Brockton Enterprise offers a good overview as well. In the Boston Globe, Christine Legere reports that Bond plans to keep his weekly radio show, which is broadcast here on Thursdays at 11 a.m. I shouldn’t, but it’s hard not to look when you happen upon a car crash.
As Elwell reported in a previous story, Bond had already alienated the board with his blog, which, I have to confess, is too tedious for me to wade through — though I do enjoy his claim that one of the selectmen, Mimi Duphily, “wanted to ‘rip my face off.’”
So I’ll give the great Gladys Kravitz the last word:

[A]s the person who has been putting Bond under a microscope since 2007 — believe it, this is a good day. This is a great day. It’s a pick up your American flag, go outside and stand on your porch or the hood of your car and let out a big WhooHoo type of day.
The king of all drama queens had a meltdown and provided you with an extra seat on the Middleboro Board of Selectmen. Now pick up a broom and sweep away the damage. Then pull back the curtain on the light of a better day.

One down, four to go.