Peters Testifies

Mike Peters had resigned from the Maine Gambling Control Board, and after doing so he testified before the Taxation Committee. He had wanted to testify so that he could give them suggestions as to how they might get more money out of the slot machine gambling that had already been allowed in the state.

Peters had sent a letter of resignation to the governor informing him that he was resigning because of the expansion of slot machines and gambling in the state, and that the state was not getting enough money off of the deal. He said that he was not alone in this and that others would be resigning as well.

He told the Taxation Committee that he thought there were ways that the state could start making more money from the slot machines. He said that there should be a $6 slot machine patrons, with $4 going to the state and $2 going to the city. He also said that he thought there should be a sales tax on the slot machines and gambling which would bring in more money.

He said he was resigning because he was now going to spend his time educating the general public about the dangers of gambling and working to keep it from spreading. He says he will have more ability to halt slot machines now that he is in the public sector than he could on the board.

He says the worst part of other people on the board resigning as well, is that when they leave they will all take a level of experience with them that the next group will not have. He said that there was “good moral fabric” there and that they were “suffering” from their desire to do what was right.

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