Have you seen the Mashpee Wampanoag LIT????
TO BE SUBMITTED
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Taunton negotiated an IGA without reviewing this.
Governor Slot Barns negotiated a Compact without reviewing this. The legislature will approve this without reviewing this.
This will NEVER be approved as it is.
And NOT ONE SINGLE ELECTED OFFICIAL asked for this!
Do we define this as stupidity or
corruption?
Montigny intended to stall casino vote again, but Senate beat him to it
Sen. Mark Montigny was prepared to try to delay Senate consideration of the compact between the governor and the Mashpee Wampanoag on Tuesday, but he didn't have to.
Montigny, D-New Bedford, delayed a Senate vote last week with a parliamentary maneuver and said he would have tried it again, even though Senate President Therese Murray said she would accept no such tactics from Tuesday forward as the Senate session winds to a close on July 31.
Because Tuesday was the eighth day before the end of the session (rules prevent delays in the final seven days), Montigny said, “I intended to assert the rule and call a point of order and doubt the ruling of the chair, which ... would have caused a bit of a ruckus because they had already ruled the minority leader out of order on an earlier table. The way they avoided all that is they immediately adjourned.
“The good news is that it gets put off again and, of course, as the calendar ticks, it's more likely that something could go wrong, although I would still say it's highly likely we would take this up on Thursday.” And, “Since two-thirds of the body supports casinos, we lose.”
The Mashpee Wampanoag and Gov. Deval Patrick have negotiated a compact allowing the tribe to operate a sovereign casino on 146 acres at the Liberty and Union Industrial Park at the junction of Route 24 and 140 in East Taunton. Over the objections of SouthCoast representatives, the House ratified the agreement last week. The casino will be built if the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs approves the compact and the Department of the Interior takes the land into trust.
“I feel like the more time people have to read it, the more likely they will see the flaws in the compact,” Montigny said. “At a minimum, I would like the governor to come out this week and say, with his chair of the Gaming Commission, that a timeline is necessary and that commuter rail to the SouthCoast is absolutely essential if we are to avoid massive bottlenecks not only during construction, because rail wouldn't be done by then, but certainly during operation” of a casino.
“If proponents are going to claim that this is the greatest thing for the economy then they should understand that having all three licenses granted at the same time would not disadvantage one region of the commonwealth,” Montigny said.
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120725/NEWS/120729925/-1/NEWS06
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