Boston Herald: Gambling opponents math doesn’t add up
Related Articles
The Boston Herald ran a story today on questions arising regarding the validity of anti-gambling claims made by State Rep. Daniel Bosley, who serves on the economic development committee that will help determine the fate of Gov. Deval’s casino expansion bill. Excerpt:
State Rep. Daniel Bosley, whose economic development committee will hold a hearing tomorrow on Gov. Deval Patrick’s casino proposal, has mixed up the number of casinos in New Jersey and the impact Atlantic City’s casinos have had on neighborhood restaurants, argues Clyde Barrow, a professor and gaming industry expert at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
And Barrow, in a six-page memo, contends the state lawmaker has a penchant for making broad-brush assertions about the “social costs” of casino gambling without the research to back it up.
“It is clear that Rep. Bosley has adopted a dogmatic opinion on the issue that insulates him from any serious consideration of the facts,” Barrow said in his statement.
