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Scare Tactics Surface in New Hampshire Gambling Campaign
SALEM, NEW HAMPSHIRE --
Groups opposing a bill to allow slots at Rockingham Park horse track in New Hampshire are making brazen statements without foundation to scare voters into rejecting the slots proposal. Reading from a script provided by the organization NoSlots.com, former Senator Warren Rudman says, "Gambling destroys families, increases crime, bankruptcy, domestic violence and suicide."
The same statement could be applied to most features of society, without measuring to test the accuracy of this generalized, broadly inclusive, and non-scientific assertion.
Yet the report in the Union-Leader about the aggresive ad campaign resulted in reader comments like this, from Brian in Saratoga Springs: "I live in a town with a "racino" and it's done nothing to hurt the quality of life here. We have a beautiful, lively, cultural and historic community. Unlike many small cities, our downtown in booming. No swarms of homeless or prostitutes with which the anti-gambling forces love to scare people."
Slot proponents say they are attempting to create new jobs while increasing government revenues. State Senator Lou D'Allesandro said, "Our plan is an economic recovery package and a job creation package."
Millenium Gaming has provided estimates that project gaming revenue for the state could reach as high as $200 million from the single location. Some legislators have debated this, arguing the state's take could be as small as $60 million, which is only $60 million more than the alternative plans proposed by anti-gambling zealots.
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