Massachusetts Still Divided When it Comes to Slot Machines

The people of Massachusetts want to know what is going on with slot machines in their state. The problem is that their government officials don’t even know what is going on so they have no way of being able to convey this to their residents. With Governor Deval Patrick and House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo constantly fighting over the slot machines, how can residents find out the truth of the situation? 

The governor is concerned with the ill effects that he believes slot machines will have on their residents. Patrick says that he is in support of bringing casino gambling to the state, but he wants to know the consequences first. He wants the slot machines to be brought in only after they have run through all of the possible scenarios as to the good and/or harm that it will do to the state. 

DeLeo says that they need to start with slot machines and then make the “natural progression” to table games and big time casinos. He says that you have to have slot machines at the tracks because they are basically the cornerstone of gambling. DeLeo is trying to push forward legislation that would legalize slot machines at all of the state’s four racetracks.  

But Patrick is against this idea and thinks that they need to move slower. He said that slot machines were “convenience” gambling and that he could not support it. He wants to see resort type gambling and that he could not support just bringing in slot machines to the state.

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