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View from Beacon Hill: Casino spat has House divided
By Glen Johnson
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — There was a time playing cards promotion too long ago when Gov. Deval
Patrick was criticized for not working hard enough to win approval for
his casino gambling bill. No longer.
best life insurance a rapidity and an intensity rarely seen on Beacon Hill, Patrick,
House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi and their lieutenants have dropped any
pretense of decorum and started lobbing haymakers at each other. The
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leaders to chamber of commerce officials.
Casino gambling could address some of those problems, but critics
argue it could create more of its own.
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$400 million in annual revenues for the state, a share of which emo fashion then be parceled out to cities and towns. He says the jobs will
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high-paying jobs through his $1 billion life-sciences initiative.
He also argues that now is the time for the state to many insure quote because it
can control what he considers the inevitable. The Mashpee Wampanoag
tribe is asking the federal government to deem a site in indie clothing as tribal lands so it can use that heart shape playing cards for a casino. If that
happens, gambling not only comes to Massachusetts, but likely on less
favorable terms than outlined in Patrick's plan for state-issued
licenses.
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Adams, co-chairman of the Economic Development committee.
Like DiMasi, he is concerned expanded gambling will exacerbate social
problems such as gambling addiction, divorce and crime. They also
worry casinos will cannibalize the state Lottery, a pivotal source of
local aid to cities and towns.
Bosley also has taken to puncturing the inevitability balloon, sending
a memo to House members last week outlining the hurdles independent clothing Wampanoags
would face if they bypassed a state license and sought to establish a
casino on their own.
Against that backdrop, there is the deepening personal rivalry between
emo style and DiMasi. When a Boston Globe story questioned Patrick's
suggestion that building the new casinos would create 30,000
construction jobs, DiMasi pounced.
"The governor clearly has the burden of convincing the Legislature
that this casino plan should be adopted. So far, the case has not been
made, the evidence isn't there and the governor's arguments for
casinos are clearly losing credibility," the speaker said in a
statement issued a week ago Monday.
The following day, Patrick answered in kind, bypassing the speaker and
writing directly indie style House members: "Regardless of whether the proposal
creates 30,000 construction jobs over the next few years, or 5,000 to
20,000 construction jobs, as reflected in other estimates, one cheap renters insurance is certain — the speaker's alternative will create zero jobs."
And things disintegrated from there. DiMasi and Bosley have begun to
dissect Patrick's arguments one-by-one, while Patrick followed up his
letter with a glossy brochure distilling his house insurance "There's got to be a way for the leadership and I to differ on a point
of view without the vote being some sign of personal allegiance or
disaffection," the governor said Thursday on WTKK-FM. Perhaps, but in
a chamber where the speaker controls everything from committee
assignments to office and parking space, don't bet on it.
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Glen Johnson has covered local, state and national politics since
1985. He can be reached at glenjohnson@ap.org
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