Vultures Picking At The Carrion

From: Springfield: MGM bests Penn … for now

By David McKee ~ May 1st, 2013

 

Yes, the comedy is finished in Springfield, at least for the moment. In an episode worthy of The Simpsons and after an epic amount of foot-dragging, Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno was cajoled and ultimately browbeaten into actually taking a stand on which gambling company will get the city’s nod to build a resort downtown. And the winner is … MGM Resorts International. (Not such a big surprise, considering the ritzier MGM brand, the historically sensitive design and its willingness to spend heavily.)

 

 

And an amusing footnote:

 

Given the Mashpee pie-in-the-sky attitude, the state is well advised to look elsewhere … th0ugh maybe not to Milford, just up the road from Mashpee Casino HQ in Taunton. That’s where insolvent Foxwoods Resort Casino (“What is this ‘default’ of which you speak?”) has the nerve to pitch a casino project. Foxwoods CEO Scott “Woody” Butera is in cahoots with another all-hat, no-cattle casino developer, David Nunes (left), so this really is the clown car in the parade. Local selectmen were more concerned about sewage disposal than another, equally vexing question: Where in Hell do Nunes and Butera think they can get $1 billion in backing? Worse still (if that were possible) front man Nunes has gone to ground. If there’s a front-runner for the coastal region of Massachusetts, it’s a Player To Be Named Later.

 

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Included in the comments:

 

You are dead-on about our Alfalfa look-a-like idiot mayor. He is so transparent that, two days after the announcement, he has the local Chamber of Commerce clamoring for a $40,000 per year raise in the mayor’s salary.

The word here in town is the FBI has been sniffing around, asking a lot of pointed questions about Sarno and his cronies … stay tuned.


Any suggestion or whiff of corruption surprises WHO?