A "no" vote would mean no changes to the current law

Casino supporters give final push in Massachusetts

2014-11-05
Reading time 50 seg
(US).- Contentious topics always spur passionate debates and perhaps no issue is hotter in Massachusetts this election year than the Ballot Question 3, which gives voters a chance to repeal the Massachusetts casino gaming law. At the studios of CBS 3 in Springfield, MGM Springfield president Mike Mathis recently debated the issues with Repeal the Casino Deal's Alan Cabot and the result was nearly an hour of both sides making fact-based and emotional pleas to sway the voters to their camp ahead of Tuesday's vote.

Without rehashing the entire history of the pro-and-anti-casino movements in Massachusetts, voters should know that in 2011, the legislature passed a law allowing for up to three resort-style casinos and a slots parlor in Massachusetts as a means to recoup gaming revenue lost to facilities in Connecticut and Rhode Island and to jump-start economic development around such facilities.

Local voters and the Massachusetts. Gaming Commission have already approved MGM Resorts International's US$ 800 million downtown Springfield project, Wynn Resorts' US$ 1.6 billion Everett Casino and Penn National Gaming's US$ 225 million slots parlor in Plainville.

A "yes" vote on Ballot Question 3 would repeal the law and make the aforementioned projects illegal. A "no" vote would make no changes to the current law, and allow the aforementioned projects to proceed.

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