Plainridge Not Done Fighting

Plainridge Racecourse has tried before to get the Massachusetts Legislature to legalize slot machines at their track. However, they have never been successful in this request. There have always been too many people against the slot machines at the track, but for some reason they think that this time they might get approved.

The race course says that there is no reason why slot machines should not be legal at the state’s tracks. Gary Piontkowski maintains that the state would see hundreds of millions of dollars from the slot machines, and considering that the state is in dire need of additional funding, they would be crazy not to consider it.

Piontkowski has scheduled a meeting at the track to discuss the slot machine options and would like local legislators to come. He also invited the public so that they could have a say in it as well. He thinks the public is going to be more supportive of slot machines than the state gives them credit for.

Some of their legislators have already said that they would support a slot machine bill as they can see the necessity of adding them. However, according to Piontkowski, the House would be against them, and they have ruled on the slot machines before and not allowed them to come in. Piontkowski says that he is not alone in this fight, and just wants to give the state a fighting chance.

He says that he will wait and see what happens at the meeting before deciding where to go from here with the slot machine issue.

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