....ignoring the CROWN OF THORNS REALITY!
Atlantic City is the Poster Child for all that is wrong with Predatory Gambling!
While The Republican has abandoned its journalistic responsibility, the FACTS are available.
Predatory Gambling promised to pave the streets with Gold and instead, Atlantic City is mired in debt, its residents impoverished, the community filled with crime and despair.
Where is there a community that has benefited from Predatory Gambling?
It doesn't exist.
States that have embraced this Failed Fiscal Policy have nothing left except the losing proposition of EXPANSION - sucking more $$$ from those least able to afford it.
Predatory Gambling is the ultimate 1% SCAM!
Let's protect ALL Massachusetts communities, support REPEAL THE CASINO DEAL and let's work together to create REAL jobs we can all be proud to work!
is to be blamed solely on me!]
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| Read what
the Springfield newspaper says about the people's right to
vote The following is an editorial that appeared on April 8 for 24 hours in the online version of the Springfield Republican. After protests and a presentation of the facts, the editorial was amended the next morning. It is outrageous. Numerous publicly available documents reveal that the repeal petition was filed just ten days after the legislation to expand gambling was passed. Repeal the Casino Deal took every step necessary to get to where we are today in a timely fashion. This news organizations' casino cheerleading and presentation of erroneous information is shameful. We need your financial support to be successful. We are trying to raise $20,000 this month to hire a campaign manager. We have a strong case for the appeal court and we will get on the ballot. But we need the funds to hire a staff person to begin the campaign now. DONATE
The Republican
Editorials By The Republican Editorials
on April 07, 2014 at
4:02 PM, updated April 08, 2014 at 1:34 PM
Did the voters who
have pressed for a repeal of the law that establishes three casinos and a slots
parlor in Massachusetts have a sudden change of heart?
Or were they simply
asleep at the wheel when the Massachusetts Legislature and Gov. Deval Patrick
agreed on the law?
For the record, that
law was signed in November of 2011 after ample debate and amendment. The public
process was prolonged and transparent. There was ample time to write, call and
lobby legislators prior to its passage.
Casino foes, if they
were sincere, should have begun a repeal effort immediately following passage of
the law, which, readers will recall, built local referendums into the
process.
Wake up: It’s now
2014.
The time to take
action, if voters wished to repeal the law, would have been immediately upon its
passage, not a year and a half later.
At this point, MGM
Resorts International lhas established a Springfield subsidiary, set up offices,
begun spending money, time and energy establishing connections and building a
vision of what Springfield’s South End will look like in 2017. Many other
Western Massachusetts businesses have done the same. So have the city of
Springfield and a large number of other local governments.
The same is true in
eastern and central Massachusetts, all based on good-faith assumptions that the
law was decided and finalized. Meanwhile, the local citizens directly involved
have voted yea or nay for their cities, as the law prescribed. The process has
worked, and worked very well.
It's not just that
approval of such a referendum would hurt our region, the businesses and
governments involved, while also depriving the commonwealth of critically needed
tax revenue that currently largely goes to neighboring states.
We believe that even
putting such a referendum on the ballot at this late date will likely have a
deeply chilling effect on the business and investment environment for all of
Massachusetts. In effect, Massachusetts would be saying that its word cannot be
trusted. And who wants to invest in an uncertain situation such as
that?
The Supreme Judicial
Court is in the process of hearing a case made by Attorney General Martha
Coakley requesting that the ballot question be nullified.
Coakley is on the
money on this one.
The ballot question
is an embarrassment and a waste of time and energy.
Repeal the
repeal.
Clcik here to see the amended editorial and the
comments. Masslive
Editorial
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On Thursday, April 3, 2014 12:13 PM,
"Abdow, Steven"
We’re on.
From: John
Ribeiro [mailto:johnfribeiro@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 11:09 AM To: John Ribeiro Subject: Save The Date(s) Statewide Repeal Meeting 4/26 or 5/3
Hi Folks,
As many of you know, there are two significant
milestones coming up in May for the Repeal effort. During the first week in
May, the SJC will be hearing oral arguments on whether our question should
appear on the November ballot. I can tell you that our legal team has put
together a very strong argument, which, in my layman's opinion, is overwhelming.
I don't see any way that the court can reasonably deny The People the right to
vote on this.
Additionally, we need to collect another round
of signatures, 11,500 certified (20,000 raw) in total. We should be able to
knock this out in a couple of weekends, especially with the weather getting
better (hopefully). Papers will be available on Friday 5/9.
We are planning for a two hour meeting with a
full agenda:
We are shooting for 10-12 on Saturday, 4/26 in
the Framingham area and using 5/3 as a fallback. Please only share this with
your core leadership teams and known entities.
Please RSVP to my email. Looking forward to
seeing as many of you there as possible. I will send details as soon as they
are confirmed.
All My Best,
John Ribeiro
Chairman, Repeal The Casino Deal
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