Massachusetts advocates have enough signatures for ballot questions.....
An anti-casino leader also said people have gathered enough signatures to move ahead on a question to repeal a 2011 law that legalized casinos.
John Ribeiro of Winthrop, chairman of Repeal the Casino Deal, said the group is still collecting signatures for a ballot question to repeal the state's two-year-old casino law. Ribeiro said the group was able to hire and pay signature gatherers in a last-minute boost for the effort.
"We will definitely meet the threshold," Ribeiro said. "I think we are going to have plenty of signatures."
The group will be collecting signatures on Tuesday in Milford when voters in the town cast ballots on a referendum for a proposed $1 billion Foxwoods casino.
Repeal the Casino Deal has filed a court challenge of Attorney General Martha Coakley's decision to bar the planned ballot question to repeal the 2011 law to allow casinos in Massachusetts.
The injunction allows the coalition to collect signatures for the proposed ballot question while the challenge is pending before the state Supreme Judicial Court.
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