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Anti-casino Group Questions Gaming Commissioner's Impartiality

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published December 13, 2013 at 3:18 PM EST
Massachusetts Gaming Commissioner Bruce Stebbins
Massachusetts Gaming Commissioner Bruce Stebbins

An anti-casino group wants a Massachusetts gaming commissioner to recuse himself from voting on a casino project in Springfield.

Massachusetts Gaming Commissioner Bruce Stebbins
Massachusetts Gaming Commissioner Bruce Stebbins

   The chairman of Springfield’s anti-casino group, Citizens Against Casino Gaming says state  gaming commissioner Bruce Stebbins should not vote on whether MGM can proceed with an $800 million casino project in downtown Springfield.   Michael Kogut said Stebbins’ previous position with the city makes it impossible for him to be impartial

   "You've got a commissioner who was a former economic development director who I do not believe can be objective when it comes to economic development in the city of Springfield and MGM Resorts International."

   The gaming commission in a statement said Commissioner Stebbins  has complete confidence in his ability to conduct himself impartially.

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Paul Tuthill
Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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