"Focus"

I want to share the following announcement:


The multi-billion dollar gambling industry has long had its eyes on
Massachusetts. Efforts to introduce casino gambling into the Commonwealth have been repeatedly rebuffed by the state legislature. But the casino industry is betting on Governor Deval Patrick’s new proposal to allow casino gambling in the Commonwealth. Efforts to pass and defeat the Governor’s casino bill will be the most hard-fought legislative battle of the coming year. The outcome of this fight should concern every Massachusetts resident. Criticism of the Governor’s proposal is growing.

On Sunday, December 23, "Focus" co-host Leo Maley will interview three leading Massachusetts casino opponents. They will make the case against allowing casino gambling in Massachusetts and explain why they are hopeful that they will be able to defeat the Governor’s bill.

State Senator Sue Tucker (D-Andover) is widely recognized to be one of the most knowledgeable and articulate opponents of casino gambling in the state legislature.

Rich Young, director of Massachusetts’ child abuse hotline, has fought efforts to site a casino in his home town of Middleboro. He is President of Casino Free Massachusetts (http://www.casinofreemass.org/), a non-partisan statewide coalition that is leading the fight against allowing casinos into the Commonwealth.

Les Bernal, who served for nearly a decade as chief of staff to a Massachusetts state senator, is working to foster an emerging national anti-casino citizens’ movement.

Airing Sundays from noon until 1 p.m. on WMUA, 91.1 FM (Amherst, MA), “Focus” is a progressive news and opinion radio program for Western Massachusetts and beyond. “Focus” also streams live on the web at www.wmua.org

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