MA Casino Bill Passes

[johndoe]

(Dead link: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/07/house_debate_on.html?p1=News_links)

Approved for three resort-style casinos, and two slot parlors at racetracks.

It's just a step in the process (House vote, it could be vetoed), but a promising one. The more competition the better.

 

[RightClawSouth]

Yeah, it'd be nice to be able to diversify away from FW (and the occasionally MS). Hopefully the politicians don't screw it up...

 

[Baseball John]

Casino's long from approved

As a former long time employee of the Mass. Legislature believe me when I say these 3 Casino's remain a 50/ 50 proposition to open in the next few years.

 

[johndoe]

Yes, now that the gov is promising a veto over the slot parlor bickerings. Really too bad, it'll likely delay everything quite a bit. What other reasons?

 

[Automatic Monkey]

All the casinos have to do is find a way to get the right money into the right hand and it will happen.

At the risk of going political, ***** and the ********* have been throwing ***** politicians under the bus recently thinking it will help them with ***** voters, so Patrick is going to have to handle it carefully, can't afford to even come close to getting caught doing anything right now.

 

[Baseball John]

Mass. casino's

Yes, now that the gov is promising a veto over the slot parlor bickerings. Really too bad, it'll likely delay everything quite a bit. What other reasons?

Once a final signing of the bill by Governor (whatever the # of casino's and slot parlors) the state and local municipalities will bog this down for years with unreasonable permitting demands.
The issue is not graft or corruption; but politics at the local level.
Each small city/town where casino's are to be located will demand so much (local revenue, job opening priorities ect... ) the casino's will be years from opening.
The present Govenor, who happens to be my neighbor, will be long gone. Who knows if his successor will have the same enthuaism for casino revenue and tollerance for the social problems Casino's bring to the local area's ?