A yes vote in November on the casino question makes more sense with each passing day.

While watching local network news, I caught Janet Mills urging a vote against the casino in a political ad that has the media scrambling to determine if the ad is false; a charge leveled by pro-casino forces. Mills is the former prosecutor for Franklin, Androscoggin and Oxford counties, and is presently a Maine House member.

I suggest to Mills and the rest of our Maine Legislature that sense they won’t give Maine citizens relief from the highest tax burden in the nation, we can realize some badly needed tax relief from the Indians operating a casino.

There is no doubt that a casino in Maine means thousands of new jobs and millions of more dollars in the state coffers. Connecticut and other states enjoy such benefits, and so should we. Those states are not beset with casino crime.

To those naysayers predicting dire consequences from the presence of a casino in Maine, I suggest they take a good, hard look into the faces of Maine people struggling to meet ever-increasing family budgets.

Indian tribes in other states have successfully built and operated casinos to the financial betterment of citizens in those states. Maine Indian Tribes should have our votes to work the same positive result here.

John Benoit,

Sandy River Plantation

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