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Poll Finds Massachusetts Voters Still Support Casinos

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published June 20, 2014 at 8:43 PM EDT
An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA
MGM Springfield
An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA

A new poll finds Massachusetts residents still support casino gambling, but have lost confidence in the casino industry regulators.

An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA
Credit MGM Springfield
An artist's rendering of the Springfield casino proposed by MGM Resorts. It was awarded the state's first casino license on June 13,2014, two-and-a-half years after Las Vegas-style gambling was legalized in Massachusetts.

Fifty-two percent of voters who responded to a Boston Globe poll say they would keep Las Vegas-style gambling legal in Massachusetts if a repeal question ends up on the November ballot.  Among voters who said they’ve paid close attention to the casino issue, 52 percent  don’t have confidence in the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, which has overseen a long and bumpy process to license casinos. Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby has defended the process.

" It is like making sausage. It has its moments, but it absolutely is a good process."

Crosby has been accused of bias and recused himself from selecting a casino operator in Greater Boston.

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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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