Flynn Pushing for His Slots Bill

State Rep. David L. Flynn of Bridgewater seems to be the only man left standing. With the state denying the casino bill for Governor Deval Patrick, Flynn feels that he now has a real chance at getting his bill passed.

Deval wanted to open three full fledged casinos around the state, something many residents balked at. But Flynn says that his is dealing with a much smaller scale expansion of gambling by only putting the slots at the tracks. He says that they could be up and running faster than the casinos could have because they are already existing facilities.

The Carney Family, that owns Raynham Park, says that they could have the slots up and running within two months. This means that within two months the state would already be receiving taxes and fees from the tracks.

Flynn expects his slots bill to be heard within the next couple of weeks by the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure and says that his main concern for passing a bill like this is the number of jobs that it will save. He says that there are about 400 jobs at the Raynham Park track that would be protected by this slots bill.

He says that the town currently gets about $600,000 from the track. If slots were legalized there the amount of money that the town would get would greatly increase.

 

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