On Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 2 p.m. City Council will be holding a hearing on the Foxwoods Casino. Unlike other candidates I am unequivocally opposed to casinos in Philadelphia. If you are similarly opposed to the Foxwoods Casino and the inevitable death of our neighborhood that will follow

WE REALLY NEED YOUR PRESENCE AND YOUR TESTIMONY AT THIS HEARING ON WED., APRIL 30 AT CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, ROOM 400, CITY HALL.
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Wally Zimolong
Maverick Republican for
State Representative 182nd District
Running against the person that helped bring Foxwoods to our neighborhood Rep. Babette Josephs
www.wallyzimolong.com

"inevitable death of our neighborhood" Puh-lease. Stop being such a drama queen and face reality. Instead of constantly opposing the casinos, you should be working with them to get the best deal possible for your neighborhood. Instead you will get the casino and zero cooperation from them because of your obstructionist methods.

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"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)

People need to A) Have some friggin vision rather than just assume that a casino is strictly a negative. B) Understand the nature of degenerate gamblers and the fact that there are already slots VERY nearby.

This is just more typical NIMBY nonsense. If we had some say in these projects rather than just flatly opposing them, they'd be a huge plus to the riverfront.

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"Let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers - in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people." - B.H. Obama

"Power does what it wants." - George Carlin

Wally, you also need to buy a clue.

Seriously.


"No other world-class cities with casinos." REALLY?

Do some due diligence before you open mouth and insert foot. I cannot vote for you. Sorry. You need to show me much more.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x-fkSYDtUY

"Censorship is free advertising by the government"--Federico Fellini

"Do you mind if I smoke while you eat?"

No wonder the gay community in Philadelphia likes you...you are such a drama queen!

I'm all for public servitude, but public ineptitude will not get my vote. Too little, too late.

He doesn't even know what a world class city is... economically, they are actually broken down into global and world cities. Let's take a tour...

London-casinos
Paris-casinos
Amsterdam-casinos
Madrid-casinos
Milan-casinos
Moscow-casinos
Toronto-casinos

And I didn't even start the list yet.

Right, but I wanted him to do some homework--not us do it for him!

I can't vote for someone that doesn't know such things, especially when they've been uttered all over THIS board numerous times. It's one thing to be against casinos, it's completely another to utter inane falsehoods.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x-fkSYDtUY

"Censorship is free advertising by the government"--Federico Fellini

"Do you mind if I smoke while you eat?"

He was too busy promoting his new pixar film...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x-fkSYDtUY

"Censorship is free advertising by the government"--Federico Fellini

"Do you mind if I smoke while you eat?"

Here are some stats from my "due diligence," which I presented to the CCRA two weeks ago.

1. 2.4% of all gamblers are compulsive gamblers.
2. Compulsive gamblers account for 1/3 of all receipts.
3. 25,000 new compulsive gamblers will be created if casinos come to Philadelphia.
4. Stats show that suicide, embezzlement, and bankruptcy increase in cities where gambling is introduced.

So I am not really being a drama queen, but rather a realist. As for world class cities and casinos, apparently Sal Masi Speaker of the House in Massachusetts, is clueless as well because he said essentially the same thing during a debate on legalizing gambling in that State.

Moreover, vision is not casinos. Visions is having the guts to give incentives to business to develop waterfront in a positive manner. Casinos are a copout. Harrisburg just gave Vanguard incentives to build a new office in the 'burbs. 2,000 people will work there. Not to mention the feeder business that will spring up to serve them. So what would you rather have Vanguard or a slots pallor?

As for development, when you have a casino the only thing that goes next to it is another casino. So there is your vision.

Finally, casinos represent corrupt politics. The entire passage of the gambling bill reeks and I am offended that the our elected officials are getting away with it. Ditto for the "selection" of the sites. A vote for casinos is a vote by the citizens for politicians to shove it down our throats.