Maine Lakefront Real Estate – No Go On Casino

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Last Tuesday the voters of Maine rejected a proposal to allow the building of a resort-casino in Oxford County, probably somewhere along Route 26 in Oxford. The measure lost by a 55% to 45% differential.
Proponents of the proposal feel strongly that Mainers have  missed out on an opportunity to bring good paying jobs to the state while opponents hope this rejection will dampen further attempts by the gaming industry to site a casino in Maine. Similar proposals to bring a casino to Maine have been voted down in recent years.
This latest vote is just further evidence that most Mainers don’t really like the idea of Maine being the location for a big-time casino and resort. From the vote tabulations it would seem that the casino got its strongest support from the neighborhood that it wanted to locate in – Oxford County – but that fully 13 of the state’s 16 counties voted against the proposal.
Many on both sides of the issue felt the legislation that brought the referendum to the voters on Tuesday was flawed from the start. Others questioned why voters, other than those in the specific county where the casino would be located, should be allowed to vote on the question.
For now, at least, the matter has been put to rest. But the winners this time around are ever-vigilant, feeling that there’s just too much money involved for the gaming industry to give up easily.
For more on this story go to this report in the Portland Press Herald.

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