[SheLion]

Also part of the press conference was former Passamaquoddy tribal Gov. Allen Sockabasin, who said he is opposed to a resort casino in Maine for cultural reasons. ??!!

I guess it would be ok if the Somali's in Lewiston wanted this Casino then!

Governor Baldacci DemocRAT   Held press conference inSIDE his office.  Didn't have the nerve to go outside and face the people.  What does THIS tell us?!

[SheLion]

Maine Alert for today's vote on the Casino in Maine!

[tkathy]

The casinos should be fought wherever possible. They are a corrupt blight wherever they go. Plus they are not paying their taxes.

[Devil_Anse]

The governor of the state is against this?

Obviously someone is not making the proper pay-offs.

[2timothy3.16]

While I hate to be on the same side as mills, baldacci and the likes, a casino is imorral and for that reason I will vote agasint it as will most other Christians.:

From the Advertiser Democrat and ChristianPatriot.com:

Then we have the gambling issues. For Bible believing and reading Christians this is a simple and effective no all the way through. No to the casino and no to the other pro family destroying pro-gambling issues as well. Why you ask? In Acts chapter one we see Peter and the other ten apostles casting lots, throwing dice so to speak, to pick a replacement for Judas Iscariot the traitor. They had two names, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. Now when they had tossed their dice, and the lot fell upon Matthias. So the Apostles rubbed their hands together and said, "there we are now twelve again." After all, for years that is the way things were done, the high priest cast lots and God controlled the dice and that is how things of the Lord were often choosen. But, in 33AD that changed, for God rejected Matthias and as we read in Acts Chapter nine, choose Saul who was to be renamed Paul, the second greatest evangelist to ever walk the face of the earth, the Lord Jesus being first.

[2timothy3.16]

SheLion, You know Bob Celeste, call him, he spent four days on the Isletta resevation outside of Albaquerque, may be spelled wrong, New Mexico last summer and then another two weeks 25 miles east. Ask him about the poverty, prostituion, and alcohol/drug addiction he say.

Bear in mind, Bob was stationed in the south, NC, SC, Alabama and Florida between 62 and 68, ask him to compare the poverty of the southern black with that of the Isletta trib memebers. And then ask him to tell you how the chiefs life.

The Lord be with you,

[metesky]

Already posted here.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Also part of the press conference was former Passamaquoddy tribal Gov. Allen Sockabasin, who said he is opposed to a resort casino in Maine for cultural reasons.

By which he means that he is ashamed of his culture, for some reason. The Indians in Maine/Nova Scotia/New Brunswick etc... have an eons old tradition of gambling - archeological evidence currently supports this view, and Alan Sockabasin is just being stupid.

[cp124]

Maine to tax it way into prosperity.