{"id":417,"date":"2015-05-12T11:53:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/?p=417"},"modified":"2015-05-12T11:54:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:54:42","slug":"417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/417\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeat of Casino Gambling a Victory for New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SB113Vote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-418 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SB113Vote-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SB113Vote\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SB113Vote-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SB113Vote.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last night, I attended the victory party for Casino Free New Hampshire, for whom I&#8217;ve advocated for the last year and a half in the State Legislature.\u00a0\u00a0 What a great group to work with:\u00a0 Smart, savvy, dedicated, and determined.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And bipartisan!\u00a0\u00a0 Our coalition encompasses the most liberal to the most libertarian.<\/p>\n<p>You hear a lot of things about lobbyists, money and influence.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m proud to say that at least in this case, hard work by passionate volunteers triumphed over hundreds of thousands dollars spent by the casino industry, keeping a predatory industry out of New Hampshire.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I helped to coordinate this effort, but we would not have been successful without our volunteers and their hundreds of phone calls, letters to the editor, Facebook shares, and emails.\u00a0 From the bottom of my heart, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m often asked why I don&#8217;t want to see casinos in New Hampshire.\u00a0 For me, I&#8217;ve had to travel to Las Vegas many times for business, often staying in casino hotels.\u00a0 Walking through the casinos, you don&#8217;t see the well-dressed 20-somethings shown in the television ads.\u00a0 You see women in their 70s trying to get an endorphin fix from slot machines.\u00a0 In the block behind the strip are the pawn shops, payday loan offices and mission churches.\u00a0 Casino gambling is not right\u00a0 for New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my reason, but if you need more, there are plenty.\u00a0 Please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casinofreenh.org\" target=\"_blank\">Casino Free NH website<\/a> for our 31 Reasons No and dozens of research links and articles.\u00a0\u00a0 And join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CasinoFreeNH\" target=\"_blank\">our Facebook page<\/a> to keep up with the next battle.<\/p>\n<p>brb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I attended the victory party for Casino Free New Hampshire, for whom I&#8217;ve advocated for the last year and a half in the State Legislature.\u00a0\u00a0 What a great&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/417\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defeat of Casino Gambling a Victory for New Hampshire<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","excerpt"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brian.beihl.org\/BRB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}