Raw Video: Anti-Casino Peeps Send PA Gaming Control Board Meeting Into Meltdown
Take a peek at this if you can. It’s footage from yesterday’s meeting of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on the campus of Temple University. In it, several concerned citizens — some whom are surely members of Casino-Free Philadelphia — attempt to let their voices be heard. The backstory is that for months now, the anti-casino troops have been lobbying new PGCB chair Mary Colins to allow public testimony at these meetings, but Colins has steadfastly refused to hear anything from the public. So one by one, those who try to speak are removed. The meeting is then adjourned. When the meeting re-commences, the same thing starts happening. The meeting gets shut down. Crazy, right? But if we may raise a question to the board: Why bother having even the facade of a public process, in a place as public as the Temple campus, and then cry foul when the people try to speak? Pfft. Amateurs.
CasinoFreePhiladelphia: I’m Mad As Hell And I’m Not Gonna Take It Anymore
September 13th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Why bother having even the facade of a public process, in a place as public as the Temple campus, and then cry foul when the people try to speak?
You’d rather they hold the meetings in some in secret at some undisclosed location?
September 13th, 2007 at 11:12 am
pro/con the issue … that was just embarrassing for PGCB … and of course Ms. Colins hasn’t commented towards this request from her public to speak out.
September 13th, 2007 at 11:26 am
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“You’d rather they hold the meetings in some in secret at some undisclosed location?”
No, though I wish they would release the transcripts of the “business lunches” they’ve had toghether.