Seth Carey, former president of Evergreen Mountain Enterprises, stepped down April 17. Evergreen’s newly minted-at-the-time spokesperson, Pat LaMarche, subsequently promised an announcement of new leadership in short order.

In as early as 48 hours from the April 25 announcement, to be exact. By midnight Monday, 840 hours have passed since that deadline, without any announcements. The campaign’s organization is still a mystery.

An inkling into the campaign’s inner workings comes from filings with the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices. Evergreen’s political action committee, MaineCasinoNow.com, filed its latest disclosure on May 29, as required by state law.

What it contains only adds to the confusion. The PAC is $103,000 in the red. The only recent supporter to the campaign was Evergreen Mountain Enterprises itself, which gave the PAC more than $17,000 as a cash contribution on April 1.

LaMarche, who was hired in April, is being paid $1,500 per week, an expense which comprised the bulk of MaineCasinoNow.com’s expenses through April and May. And Carey, although no longer president of Evergreen, remains listed as the PAC’s treasurer.

That’s it. What can be divined from this disclosure is this pro-casino campaign remains a two-person operation: Carey and LaMarche. Carey still controls the finances, while LaMarche is – so far – the campaign’s only paid staffer. And, as contributions show, the campaign is also self-funded.

From here, things get even murkier. An entity with a potential revenue stream of more than $80 million, which an Oxford County casino is informally estimated to do, must have more than two people managing the organization trying to create it. Who, or where, these other persons are, or are located, is unknown.

So is the location of this proposed casino. Oxford County has more than 2,000 square miles of land area, including an extended border with New Hampshire. It is home to parks, protected wilderness, lakes and mountains, and many small, idyllic communities.

There are many stakeholders in this casino plan. Where it is built is of critical importance to the residents of Oxford County, and is crucial for voters to know in weighing the question in November.

And, perhaps the most puzzling question is, who is in charge? If it is not Carey (who, Casinos No!’s Dennis Bailey notes, was lobbying for the casino at the Maine Democratic Convention), then who? If it is not Carey, then can any of the promises made about this casino be trusted?

But if it is still Carey, what was the point of the theatrics surrounding his purported resignation?

These are important questions. The clock is ticking for Evergreen to provide some answers as the November election on this issue looms.