Don't be rushed!

Adam Bond crammed the Casino Folly through in Middleboro.

Only one reason to do so - Prevent folks from gathering the facts!

A deal that promises to Pave the Streets with Gold will be just as good 6 months later.

Don't be rushed! Make sure the future of EVERY community is protected.

Suffolk Downs Neighbor

Friends and Neighbors: Things are getting ugly and smelly on Beacon Hill.

Please call the Mass. Gaming Commission today and DEMAND that they hold off on community votes until background checks are complete. The Globe reported yesterday that the Board is leaning toward letting the votes happen while background checks are being completed. Our neighbors need to know everything about the applicants before they can make an informed decision. This is nothing but an effort to rush the process along without going through the due process written in the law. First they look the other way while Vornado rejects background checks and now this.

Contact them today by phone - 617.979.8400 - or through their online contact form: http://massgaming.com/contact/

http://www.boston.com/news/local/blogs/in-the-cards/2013/04/11/gambling-panel-opens-door-june-votes-casinos/xOr6JrKzoHkf68TqS0nx4I/blog.html

04/11/2013

Gambling panel opens door to June votes on casinos

By Mark Arsenault, Globe Staff

 

DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF

Insert $1.5 billion casino here? The former Monsanto Chemical site in Everett where Wynn Resorts wants to build a hotel casino.

 

The state gambling commission is bending its policy that communities must wait to hold referenda on casino projects until the commission completes backgrounds checks on the casino developers.

 

The board is leaning toward a compromise that would allow communities to vote while the background checks are ongoing, so long as voters are informed about the purpose and the standards of the commission’s investigations into the applicants. The panel will take public comment on the proposed compromise before a formal vote next week, but unless there are some new facts, this looks like a done deal.

 

At least some of the credit for the commission’s change of heart should go to Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria, who strongly urged the gambling panel to let his city vote when it is ready — as soon as June. Wynn Resorts is planning a hotel casino on the Mystic River waterfront in Everett, and the mayor says he is nearly done negotiating the terms of the development with Wynn.

 

Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno has pushed for the right to hold a casino vote as soon as June 25, the date for the special election to fill the US Senate seat left vacant by John Kerry’s resignation to become US secretary of state.

 

Despite the compromise, most of the local casino votes will probably take place in September or later.

 

 

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