This week cannot get over fast enough. The silence in deafening. More calls...more emails.
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This week cannot get over fast enough. The silence in deafening. More calls...more emails.
Can we please let the GOAL CM bump this thread? I'm sure there on it.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Slots are held hostage
Progress required on other bills
By Steve LeBlanc THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON — Gov. Deval L. Patrick offered Massachusetts lawmakers an ultimatum Thursday: Pass a series of stalled bills and he would consider signing a casino bill that includes a single slots parlor.
Patrick has opposed allowing slots at the state’s racetracks, but now says he could accept a gambling bill with both casinos and one competitively bid slot parlor — but only if lawmakers first pass several key bills that have become bogged down.
The Legislature ends its formal session Saturday night.
“I am willing to consider that compromise if we get action to my satisfaction on all of these other bills,” Patrick told reporters outside his Statehouse office Thursday after meeting with House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Therese Murray.
Patrick ticked off his priorities, including an overhaul of the state’s Criminal Offender Record Information system, an economic development bill including a sales tax holiday, a small business health care cost containment bill and a bill overseeing the siting of wind energy turbines.
“It is absolutely critical that we break this logjam,” Patrick said. “My willingness to compromise is not unlimited in either time or scope.”
... (click link for full story)
Have they tried to sneak it through yet?
I'll literally be checking this page, GOAL's page, and my email hourly.Watch out for tomorrow afternoon/evening!!
Watch out for tomorrow afternoon/evening!!
Watch out for tomorrow afternoon/evening!!
Actually at this point, if it happens, i think the deal would be done before we even hear about it.
Hope for the best, Prepare for the Worst.
Hate to be a downer, but based on the Globe article that I quoted earlier it may already be a done deal. Slot machines in return for Gov Patrick's four pet bills, one of which was H.4102. The machine at work.
I REALLY hope I'm wrong.....
it was my understanding that they agreed on the slots to give him time to work on the other bills, not that they were guaranteed to get done. i could be wrong
As always, I hope you're right and I'm wrong. That said I think the session closes tomorrow (tonight?) at midnight, so that's not a whole lot of time left to work on anything. In any case there's not much we can do now but watch and remember in November. (And maybe load mags, but I think most of us already have a few dozen ready to take to the range for practice...) Those of us who sent letters and made phone calls, THANK YOU for being good Americans.
Nice Dream huh?
Do these "back room deals" break the open meeting laws?
Oh yeah, "one gun a month" would have definitely stopped this::
DA: Gangbanger killed teen