Before the Massachusetts State Senate...A lot of opinions were heard even if the outcome sadly seems certain.
An yet to date not ten minutes of the State Senate's precious time has been wasted discussing the corruption scandals over in the Commonwealth's Probation Department.
Suspended Probation Commissioner Jack O'Brien has yet to be hauled before whatever State Senate Committee oversees kickbacks, chiseling and allegations of porch climbing.
And I suspect we will have a long wait til anyone swears O'Brien in before any Committee of the Great-n-General Court. Frankly it seems like the man just knows too much, and besides a good chunk of our State Senators are holed up in their offices dreaming of a revenue deluge all from legalized casino gambling...Hard to bust open revelries like that.
So in that context let me just briefly note that Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz is my new hero, this quote from the above article sez it all for Humble Elias:
Casinos are “a fancy way of putting a tax on the poor,’’ said Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz, a Jamaica Plain Democrat...
And then there is Senator Susan Tucker:
Casinos rely on compulsive gamblers for most of their profits, said Senator Susan C. Tucker, an Andover Democrat and a staunch gambling opponent.
If either of these fine ladies wanna start dreaming of higher office come 2012 or 2014, they will find an interested avid listener in Humble Elias, on the subject of casino gambling they have their heads on very straight.
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