The public was shut out of the process.
While buckets of taxpayer dollars were spent on reports promising exaggerated low wage job creation and outrageous revenues, no cost analysis was ever conducted.
An infrastructure report commissioned by Senator Petrucelli was withheld. It would have informed voters that the infrastructure costs for a Gambling facility at Suffolk Downs will cost + $500 MILLION and not solve the gridlock. Big Dig anyone?
'Charities' maintained by Senator Petrucelli and Mayor Tom Menino are exempted from scrutiny, escaping campaign contribution limits.
Both Senator Rosenberg, prime cheerleader of Predatory Gambling, and Secretary Bialecki profit from Casino investments and avoid public scrutiny. What other investments exist in which lawmakers stand to profit? What don't we know?
While the Predatory Gambling process highlighted the isolation lawmakers have allowed, all other legislation exists in a similar vacuum, concealed from public view, filled with misinformation.
Time for change!
Despite progress in government transparency, critics say Mass. Legislature still isn't open enough
By David Riley
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