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Cahill for Casinos Not Track Slots

If there was any doubt that State Treasurer Tim Cahill is against bringing slots into the racetracks, let it be known that the doubt should be gone. Cahill has dismissed any proposals that would bring slots to the tracks, thereby leaving the struggling tracks to figure out where to go next.

Cahill has said that he does not approve of the slots at the tracks as he feels it would be a mistake to allow that kind of expanded gambling. He says that Pennsylvania brought in more than 66,000 slots once gambling was allowed to expand, and he does not want to see that happen to Massachusetts.

However, Cahill also said that he has a plan to legalize casino gambling in the state, which some say has to do with the fact that he is backed by casino lobbyists. He has endorsed full scale $1 billion resort casinos to come into the states, so obviously he does not see this as expansion. He says that gambling outlets must be limited.

The tracks had proposed bringing in giant slots parlors to their tracks, and Cahill says that he could not support such a plan. He does not want to see “2,000 slots at a warehouse or racetrack,” and would not approve the plan to do so. He says that with the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe getting permission from Middleboro to bring in a slots casino to their town, that casinos are simply a matter of time in the state.

He says racetrack slots would simply take money from locals, whereas casinos would bring in people from all around the country. The tracks say that slots would bring in more revenue for the state and would enable them to stay open.

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