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BUONICONTI CASINO PRIORITY MISGUIDED
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BUONICONTI CASINO PRIORITY MISGUIDED
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KOGUT CALLS BOUNICONTI'S CASINO PRIORITIES MISGUIDED SEEKS RETURN OF CASINO LOBBY CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS SPRINGFIELD - Democratic candidate for Hampden County District Attorney, Michael T. Kogut, today issued a statement in response to published reports that state Sen. Stephen J. Buoniconti's priority was to establish the four western counties as a region for a casino. Clearly Sen. Buoniconti has his priorities wrong. As a candidate for District Attorney he is on record as stating that casinos will increase crime yet his priority is to continue to push for casinos. That, to me, is misguided. As a candidate for District Attorney his priority should not be to push for a proposal he knows will increase crime but rather oppose it. In addition, the proposal put forth by the legislature lacks key law enforcement provisions such as guaranteed funding for local police, prosecutors, courts, and victims funds that are necessary to combat and deal with the inevitable increase in crime that comes with casinos. Furthermore, the legislation Sen. Buoniconti supports lacks a key element sought by Attorney General Martha Coakley and eight District Attorneys to prevent corruption and racketeering -- a modern wire tap statute . It seems to me that if the legislature is determined to build casinos, then as a responsible law-maker and candidate for District Attorney ensuring law enforcement the tools to fight the increase in crime associated with casinos should be priority number one. Particularly, in view of the fact the legislature has cut the prosecutors budgets by 8.5% over the past two years. I also find it troubling that Sen. Buoniconti has taken thousands and thousands of dollars in contributions from casino lobbyists and others associated with casinos and gaming over the years to fill his campaign coffers and now his run for District Attorney. If he is to have any credibility on this issue, as legislator or as a candidate for District Attorney, he needs to either oppose the bill or return the money, get his priorities straight and support all the legislation needed to fund local police and prosecutors and adopt the laws necessary to fight the political corruption and other crime that comes with casinos.
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