This is in response to the Oct. 22 article, “Mayor: Casino costly.”

Are people to believe the mayor, after all those years of millions of dollars being paid to the town of Ledyard, Conn., mostly through lodging, food and areas of interest?

Are people supposed to believe her, after Dennis Bailey of CasinosNo! had the mayor come to Maine?

Are people to believe that CasinosNo! seems to be “a thing of the past”?

People are supposed to believe that a casino in Maine would be bad; that 800 jobs would be bad; that money to to cover the governor’s health care plan would be bad; that new infrastructure would be bad; that new and more visitors to the state would be bad; and that taking perhaps hundreds of people off assistance rolls would be bad.

Those who would believe the mayor need to wake up.

I believe she must not have known how to balance all the programs she wanted, and now is afraid that if a casino is built in Oxford County, the Maine and Canadian patrons would not continue on to Connecticut.

I believe that is the bottom line.

When has CasinosNo! said good things about the great state of Maine?

John D. Dube, Rumford