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4/27/2010
7:20:55 PM | When you consider a potential business partner, don't you consider how they have conducted their business elsewhere?
Spectrum Gaming, the same company that conducted a report for Governor Patrick, prepared a report for the CT DOSR that's available here: http://uss-mass.org/
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The increases come at a time when DUI arrests statewide have fallen. In 1992, they totaled 12,088. In 2005, they declined to 9,874, a decrease of 18 percent.289
(Chart included for comparison)
[Norwich] Police there made 158 arrests in 2007 and 252 in 2008, the highest number of arrests made during the 16-year span that records were made available to us.
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Two motorists charged with DUI were involved in separate accidents that killed two Connecticut people in southeastern Connecticut in March and April of 2009. Both acknowledged to police that they had been drinking at Mohegan Sun, according to police.
From 2002 to 2008, Mohegan Sun paid nearly $1 million to settle charges that it violated state liquor control laws involving nearly 300 casino patrons who were allegedly intoxicated or under age.
The Associated Press reported on April 30, 2009, that Mohegan Sun increased its efforts to spot gamblers who may be drunk in response to the two fatal accidents. [In other words, they waited until they wanted to build in Palmer to take action, ignoring previous accidents.]
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The addition of so many low-paying jobs has made the [housing] problem that much worse in southeastern Connecticut.
Mohegan Sun recruited workers from overseas because they were unable to find workers locally willing to work the low wage, dead end jobs they offered.
This is consistent with the industry.
From the report:
Page 14: Hotbedding
Substandard housing, illegal conversions casino workers
With many casino workers unable to afford housing
in southeastern Connecticut, some landlords have converted single-family homes into boarding facilities. The practice is not only illegal, it is unsafe as well.
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They [CT casinos] sometimes recruit workers from overseas students from Eastern Europe in the summer and from South America in the winter who often rent rooms in homes near the casinos.
Sharing of beds in shifts known as hotbedding is a common practice among casino workers who earn low wages.
Allowing gambling addicts to play: Social Impacts:
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The two Connecticut casinos should have known, based on personal information players supplied, that some gamblers were gambling way over their means.
Page 11: CT Taxpayers picking up tab
At our request, the state Office of Policy and Management provided us with budget data for the regulatory agencies from the 2004 to 2008 fiscal years. It shows that the state sustained deficits totaling nearly $16 million during that period $8.6 million at Mohegan Sun and $7.3 million at Foxwoods.
Page 13: Increased costs to taxpayers
DUI arrests have more than doubled since 1992.
Let's perform an Independent Cost Benefit Analysis before we consider legislation.
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