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HARRY SCULL JR/Buffalo News
Dr. Robert Schulman, a pediatrician and expert on teenage gambling
addiction, at Saturday's Hoyt Lake rally. Citizens Against Casino
Gambling in Erie County noted that most county residents oppose
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The crowd listens attentively to the
speakers and musicians, against the
beautiful backdrop of the Albright-Knox
Art Museum.
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Former Assemblyman Arthur Eve: "80% of the money played in the lottery
comes from people who more than likely did not complete high school and
whose average income is around 10,000 to 12,000 a year. Buffalo is the
poorest city [of its size] in America."
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Brian Lampkin and Melissa Maiola, of "Royal Flush" casino, presented The
William Bennett One-Armed Bandit Award for Moral Hypocrisy. The award
went in absentia to the "Ghandi-like" Carl Paladino, "whose notable lack
of self-interest in the casino-project makes him a near-saint in the
city."
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Jean Dixon and Gary Stevens perform songs with anti-casino lyrics,
"I'll be damned if I'll surrender, to a gang of gambling thugs."
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Ellen Kennedy: "In communities that have casinos there is a net loss of
jobs. Atlantic City lost hundreds of businesses after the casinos went
in. And there's absolutely no social argument: We all know about
bankruptcy, addictions, crime...It's time for all the elected officials
to listen to the people."
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