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Published on: 8/25/2006
Last Visited: 9/2/2006
While I recognize the utility and pragmatism of such a tactic, I think the case for opposing a Casino Amendment offered by Brian Casey, owner of the Oak Hill Tavern in North Kingstown, is more important.
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Casey is the owner of a business that could be negatively affected by the competition of a large casino, so there can be little doubt that he is at least partially motivated by his own economic self-interest.Nonetheless, his idealistic and proper notion of what our State Constitution should and shouldn't be is the most important argument to be made in this debate.