Bellicose Bumpkin

In a unanimous vote, the Middleboro BOS approved a letter opposing the Mashpee Wampanaoag’s plans to alter their fee to trust application by adding a Fall River site to it:

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“It is nothing short of legal chicanery for the tribe to now attempt to expand its initial reservation request to include land for a casino in Fall River, which would directly compete with an already contracted project in Middleboro,” the letter says.

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A draft of the letter surfaced last Friday in a Brockton Enterprise article titled Middleboro selectmen not pleased with tribe’s casino pull-out. As I recently tweeted, the article title begs the question of what the tribal leadership was doing to the town before they pulled out.
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My friends over at ReelWamps have chimed in on the letter as well.
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Would this be a bad time to ask if we’re getting our $250K planning money this year? I would hate to dredge up the past and say “I told you so”. OK well that’s not true – I love saying “I told you so”. It was June 2009 when I posted that last year’s payment would be the last one.
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If only the BOS had engaged the opposition and leveraged their expertise instead of alienating them. But that don’t make no nevermind – the BOS don’t want to hear from me even when I come bearing free web sites.