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Boston Globe: "Casino, slots back on state agenda"

Governor Deval Patrick and House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo briefly discussed expanded gambling yesterday during their first weekly leadership meeting since DeLeo, a supporter of gambling, was elevated to his post last week.

DeLeo rose to the speaker position in the Massachusetts House because the former speaker, Salvatore DeMasi, left in an ethics cloud. Whatever his faults, DeMasi at least was a strong opponent of casinos in the Bay State. Deval Patrick wasted no time looking for an easy way to solve the state's budget problems by pushing them onto to penny slot jockeys.