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"Whether or not you are able to come to the State House, <b>please</b>
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Event: Tuesday Showdown on Predatory Casinos<br>
What: Rally<br>
Start Time: Tomorrow, April 13 at 12:00pm<br>
End Time: Tomorrow, April 13 at 3:00pm<br>
Where: Massachusetts State House<br>
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To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:<br>
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Boycott Casinos - Support Local Businesses & Green Jobs</b></div>
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<div class="data">Published by <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="author3" href="http://gopetition.com/author.php?petid=35348"
title="Contact this petition's author">Patrick Burke</a> on Apr 06,
2010</div>
<div class="item">Category: <font class="value"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://gopetition.com/petition-campaigns/Politics/">Politics</a></font></div>
<div class="item">Region: <font class="value"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://gopetition.com/petition-campaigns/United-States-of-America/">United
States of America</a></font></div>
<div class="item">Target: <font class="value">Governor Deval
Patrick and the Massachusetts Legislature</font></div>
<div class="item2">Background (Preamble):</div>
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<div class="desc">Dear Friend,<br>
<br>
As we enter political fund-raising season, Speaker DeLeo and Governor
Patrick are pushing hard to bring government sponsored predatory
gambling into Massachusetts. If they succeed, it will be a BIG win for
casino lobbyists.<br>
<br>
Disturbingly, Speaker DeLeo has declared there will be no public
hearings on his bill - shielding this latest boondoggle from
desperately needed public scrutiny and debate.<br>
<br>
They claim casinos will create jobs. But the facts show that casinos
are jobs killers and community-busters. We need a secure green economy,
not more of the failed predatory casino economy of the past.<br>
<br>
Tell Beacon Hill not to betray OUR JOBS, OUR TAX DOLLARS, COMMUNITIES,
& ENVIRONMENT!<br>
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· We want good wage green jobs that will be here for the long haul -
for construction workers, small businesses, clean manufacturing and
healthy local food producers. Green jobs lower energy and food costs
for families and businesses. They will clean up the air, improve
nutrition, reduce chronic disease, health costs, and the threat of
climate change.<br>
<br>
· We don't need here-today-gone-tomorrow construction jobs that leave
us with permanent casino blight: failed small businesses, gambling
addiction, bankruptcies, broken families, crime, sprawl, pollution, and
climate change. Casinos kill 1.5 jobs for every 1 job they create.
Coping with the problems caused by casino gambling costs taxpayers at
least $3 dollars for every $1 dollar in tax revenue!<br>
<br>
Don't let them put small businesses out of business! Become part of the
growing movement for revitalized communities, secure jobs and the
healthy green future we deserve!<br>
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For more facts on casinos follow the link <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B8pl7znW3ANYN2NjZjRkOGUtZDI0MS00N2NmLWI5MDgtM2JhOTM1Y2JhNmEy&hl=en">Casino
Fact Sheet</a></div>
<div class="item2">Petition:</div>
<div style="" class="petition">To the Massachusetts Legislature
and Governor Patrick:<br>
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In signing the pledge below I am asking you to reject attempts to
establish a government-endorsed program of predatory gambling in
Massachusetts. The predatory gambling industry is harmful to local
businesses, undermines sound job growth, and fosters addiction,
bankruptcy, crime, divorce and other social problems. Building casinos
locks us in to high greenhouse gas emissions and make our economy
vulnerable to oil price shock. In the final analysis, these problems
will consume more tax dollars than we can recover from gambling taxes.<br>
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For my own part, I pledge not to patronize gambling casinos or slot
parlors in Massachusetts. I pledge to strongly encourage my children
and family members to avoid such establishments. Instead, I pledge to
direct my discretionary expenditures into locally-owned, productive
businesses that are good neighbors in the community, that do not
exploit people with addictions, workers, or the environment, and which
are the best way of creating permanent jobs in a sustainable economy.</div>
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<p><i><font color="#c0c0c0">"</font><font color="#ff0000">I have
to tell
you something. I cannot help being happy. I've struggled against it but
to no
good. Apart from an odd five minutes here and there, I have been happy
all my
life. There is, I am well aware, no virtue whatever in this. It results
from a
combination of heredity, health, good fortune, and shallow intellect.</font><font
color="#c0c0c0">" </font> </i><font color="#c0c0c0">~Arthur
Marshall</font></p>
<p><i><font color="#c0c0c0">"</font><font color="#ff0000">I have
guarded
myself more carefully against contented people than against contagious
diseases.</font><font color="#c0c0c0">" ~</font></i><font
color="#c0c0c0">Victoria Wolff</font></p>
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