{"id":282,"date":"2007-11-11T22:43:10","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T02:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/282"},"modified":"2007-11-11T22:43:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T02:43:33","slug":"patrick-supports-casinos-and-still-finds-a-way-to-tick-me-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/patrick-supports-casinos-and-still-finds-a-way-to-tick-me-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Supports Casinos, And Still Finds A Way to Tick Me Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of this blog know that I <strong>want<\/strong> to support Governor Deval Patrick, but I&#8217;ve frequently doubted whether he could meet the expectations of his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>When he came out in support of casinos, I agreed.  There is demand for gambling in Massachusetts.  It&#8217;s not appropriate for the state to prevent its citizens from engaging in it.  It&#8217;s dumb to not try to profit from it.  It&#8217;s also reasonable to make sure that the casino business covers the costs to the hosting towns.  Patrick&#8217;s plan had all that.<\/p>\n<p>And then I heard about the part where Patrick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2007\/11\/10\/internet_gambling_is_a_target_of_patrick_bill\/\">wants to outlaw internet gambling<\/a>.  He wants to punish people with up to two years in prison and a $25,000 fine for placing a bet online from their own home.  This is an awful idea in any context.  It&#8217;s hypocritical when included in a bill that creates casino gambling.<\/p>\n<p>If Patrick is trying to create opposition, he&#8217;s doing a good job by me. Patrick should file an amended bill without this foolish ban right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of this blog know that I want to support Governor Deval Patrick, but I&#8217;ve frequently doubted whether he could meet the expectations of his supporters. When he came out in support of casinos, I agreed. There is demand for gambling in Massachusetts. It&#8217;s not appropriate for the state to prevent its citizens from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}