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There has been some confusion in Massachusetts regarding a certain slot machine, some are not sure of the joke that has been carried on in a very public arena lately – but it all has to do with slot machines and who wants them and who doesn’t.

It started with Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo handing Governor Deval Patrick a slot machine during a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in Boston. DeLeo is very much in favor of bringing slot machines to racetracks to increase revenue in the state, so it was the perfect joke as far as he and the governor were concerned.

But the slot machine is actually the same slot machine that Rep. John Keenan gave to DeLeo last week at another St. Patrick’s breakfast at Finz. He then took it to Boston to give to the governor. But instead of that being the end of the story, the slot machine is actually more involved than that.

The slot machine came from The Magic Parlor where is has been in their basement for years. Lynne Montague, Keenan’s aide was looking for a slot machine as part of a gag and followed up on a rumor that it might be there. Then several people later, it ended up in Keenan’s hands. He then took it home, where his children decided they wanted to keep it and asked their father to ask for it back from the governor.

So Keenan asked for it back, but the governor had left it at the breakfast, and now the slot machine is missing.

 

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