You could try reason and rationality rather than your attempt at exterminating opinion you disagree with. That you don’t speaks volumes about you.
But then I’m already on the exterminated list so you won’t have to tolerate my opinion!!!

May the life of this Illinois native who delivered the world from the Evil Empire inspire us to deliver Reagan’s home state, our families and our own community of Elgin from the evil empire of Chicago and its grip of criminal and racist poverty.

When caught engaging in illegal election activity and asked for identification, Senator Noland produced only a traffic ticket “issued for allegedly driving without insurance.”

It is so shameful and disturbing to know that my hometown has descended to level that it would elect someone with the fecal character of Michael Noland for public office. It was not that long ago that Elgin residents had to follow Chicago news to hear about public officials like Michael Noland.

And when April’s city elections come around, remember that both mayoral candidates Schock and Kaptain were willing to appear at a fundraiser for this guy. Yuck.

I wish Pingree Grove’s Village Board would have acted on Carey’s suggestion. It is not right to try and punish the majority of about 63 local communities and governments who realize the folly of other states experiment with gambling as stated below.

STATES OF REGRET:
In 1999…

* The Louisiana public voted to end a gambling “experiment” and unplug 4,683 video poker machines.10
* Oregon and South Dakota were creating initiatives to remove 17,000 video poker machines from the lottery system.11
* The mayor of Las Vegas was considering removing video poker from neighborhoods [accessibility and convenience was creating addicts].12
* South Carolina’s Governor outlawed more than 34,000 video poker machines, after children, adults and families had suffered a statewide plague of gambling addiction.13
* Montana hosts 60 Gamblers Anonymous meetings every week and has one gambling machine per every 48 people.14 Problem and pathological gambling is estimated to be 3.6 percent, but problem and pathological gamblers account for nearly 37 percent of video gambling machine revenue. Montana relies heavily on gambling machine tax revenues, which account for an average of 14 percent of city funds. Each additional $1 million in Montana gambling tax revenue accounts for 172 additional crimes.15

Massachusetts State Rep. Dan Bosley said, “If there’s one vote I could take back it would be the vote to legalize keno. We’ve gone from a once-a-week game when the lottery was first created to a new game every five minutes. It’s insidious.”16

In 1994, a “natural experiment” in South Dakota forced all state video lottery terminals to be shut down for three months. The number of gamblers treated per month dropped by 93.5 percent, and the study found that 97.9 percent of gambling addicts — formerly in treatment — were primarily addicted to video lottery, not other types of gambling.17

read the entire website if you like at:

http://www.citizenlink.org/FOSI/gambling/A000002194.cfm

Common Sense Clarence Hayward

A big thank you to East Dundee voters for using their common sense and voting down the video gambling expansion.

There are too many costs to governments and communities to expanding the video gambling. Trying to hold hostage governments to vote it in by threatening to withhold funds has not stopped 62 governments to vote it down.

At a recent Kane Committee of the Whole meeting Judge Golden of the county drug court told us that crack cocaine is the drug of choice that was abused by those in the drug program. Video gambling is coined the “crack cocaine” of gambling for a good reason.

There are a lot of reasons not to expand video gambling:

63 area governments have voted down the expansion of video gambling including Kane, Cook, and Dupage county.

Other states that voted it in realized their mistake and voted it out AFTER trying it.

Every dollar that is taken in by gambling is one less dollar that other non gambling merchants could have benefited from. Non gambling dollars get recycled to benefit more than one merchant in the community.

Having video gambling, which is considered the crack cocaine of gambling, available at more neighborhood bars close to work or home will give more opportunity for many more people to be harmed by the effects of a compulsive gambler. Studies show that about 17 other people are affected by a problem gambler.

Some of the revenue will just be a transfer from the riverboat to the machines in the bars

There are social agency costs to the agencies that help problem gamblers try and repair their lives.

There are untold costs to police to regulate the expansion of the gambling.

Some reasons why other states got rid of gambling after voting it in at:

http://www.citizenlink.org/FOSI/gambling/A000002194.cfm

Common Sense, Independent, Clarence Hayward

I hope the voters will elect some more common sense, independence, to the Kane County Board this November, especially in Hurlbut’s District 19. She voted for the gambling when the majority of the Kane County Board voted it down by one vote.

Common Sense, Independent, Clarence Hayward

Recently the Herald reported that a “suitable” owner for the proposed Des Plaines casino had been found. The casino is expected to open in late summer or fall of next year.

Riverboat tax revenues are essential to Elgin’s financial welfare, and are budgeted at $19.5 million for 2010. However, once the Des Plaines boat opens, Elgin is budgeting a 30 percent reduction in proposed revenues - that’s 5.85 million dollars Elgin will lose every year because of the Des Plaines boat.

All because of Michael Noland. In 2007 the Illinois Senate passed a gambling expansion bill permitting new casinos in Illinois. The bill passed by one vote - Michael Noland’s. If Michael Noland had not been in the Senate Elgin would not be facing a loss of nearly 6 million dollars in revenue every year. Just call “our” Senator The Six Million Dollar Man.

RS has asked on this blog whether there is any tax Michael Noland doesn’t like. A bigger question is whether Michael Noland has ever missed any chance to bring more poverty and dependency to the constituency he claims to represent. And, of course, the biggest question is why, if they truly had Elgin’s welfare at heart, Elgin’s leaders such as Schock and Kaptain support someone who has so grievously damaged the city’s future? Noland is the living embodiment of the CRAPocrat agenda - Crime And Poverty for Elgin. No one who supports the welfare of Elgin supports him.