We need people to show up and voice their support for the casino at Rockingham park, Senator Cilley will be voting on the casino this spring and she will vote on the wishes of her constituency if the anti-gaming people show up at these events and are louder than us, we will lose this valuable opportunity for a great construction project!
Please contact your members and ask them to show up Wed. night at 6:30pm at the Roberge Center 56 N.Main St. Rochester. This will be the first of many of these public hearings that we will be looking for support. Its all about jobs we can not leave anything on the table we must do everything possible to get this legislation passed.

Gaming company exec. to outline plans for slots at Rochester public meeting next week

By Adam D. Krauss
akrauss@fosters.com
Friday, January 22, 2010
ROCHESTER — The head of a Nevada gambling enterprise plans to outline his plan to bring slot machines to New Hampshire at a public meeting next Wednesday at the Roberge Center at 6:30 p.m.

Sen. Jackie Cilley, D-Barrington, said she organized the meeting with Bill Wortman of Millennium Gaming so the public can learn the details of his proposal.

"I want to make sure he presents to the public exactly what he presented to us," she said, referring to a meeting at a city eatery in November, when lawmakers were treated to dinner courtesy of those helping Millennium bring 5,000 machines to Salem's Rockingham Park.

A similar meeting was held the next night in Exeter, which the press was invited to attend after concern arose among the press that the meeting was secret.

Cilley has said excluding the press at the Rochester event was an oversight, and since then she's pointed out anti-gambling groups have also hosted lunches for lawmakers.

As for next week's meeting, "I think folks should come and hear what they have to say," Cilley said. "I think when there's any question about what legislators hear we should make sure the public hears the same thing."