The Maine Casino Question

“The way life should be”. This is what the state of Maine reminds it’s citizens and visitors on highway road signs. However, it’s a different story if you look to where the Passamaquoddy Tribe lives, pressed against the US boarder. There you will find unemployment, drug abuse, and teen pregnancy. Over half of the tribe is un-employed and the little town is scattered with failed endeavors intended for economic revival. The Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indian tribes deem the answer lies in a 650 million dollar gambling casino funded by owner of lavish Vas Vegas casino the Bellagio. This fall Mainers will vote on whether to allow the Indians to open the casino.

Do you want to allow a casino to be run by the Passamaquoddy Tribe and Penobscot nation if part of the revenue is used for state education and municipal revenue sharing? This is the question going on Maine voting ballots this November. Under the blanket of humanitarianism is a simple question; do the people of Maine want a casino? The supporters of the casino boast that it would bring good things to this great state. However, passing this bill would break existing agreements, be deceitful to the people of Maine, create c

Building a casino in Maine would increase crime and squander the way of life Mainers have become accustomed to. Years ago, the Indian Resort Casino Foxwoods was erected. John Malicks of Ledyard Connecticut remembers, that as the resort expanded, the towns surrounding that had populations of around 5,000 began to see car thefts, prostitution, drunk driving, burglaries, and embezzlement. The roads leading to the Foxwoods used to be quiet and serene. Now, the roads are wider and are littered with trash and abandoned cars. Everyone once and while, you pass an old restaurant, closed and boarded up; driven out of business by the prosperous Foxwoods. The homes that are located along the roads to the casino have lost 10 to 20 percent of their value since the casino has been made (Camden Herald). The casino that would be built in Maine would be similar to Foxwoods in many ways. The people that are supportive of the casino tell us to look at Foxwoods, to see how prosperous it was. However, it simply requires one to look at the problems that Foxwoods has, to know, that a casino doesn’t belong in Maine.

It was after years of conflict, and months of negotiation, that the state of Maine gave 82 million dollars to the tribes to buy hundreds of thousands of acres of land to expand their territory. It was a groundbreaking agreement, and was supposed to solve the Indian dilemma forever. As part of the deal, the tribes agreed to give up rights enjoyed by many federally recognized tribes, including gambling. To allow these tribes to start a casino would be a direct violation of the agreement that the tribes signed in 1980 (York Daily).

In this bill, minors of any ago can gamble in was it called a “bazaar game”. A

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