There are some questions that just seem obvious to me, but they don’t occur to a large part of the population and are rarely asked. One of those questions concerns the advertisements that have been running on television for months. Where did the figures – 10,000 jobs, $50 million for the state, lowered property taxes, $50 million for education, no taxpayer contributions, etc. – come from? Is there any way the voter will be able to determine how the “Casino Yes” people derived those figures? Do the potential operators, just possibly, calculate them out of thin air?

There was a recent hue and cry about CasinosNo! advertisements being unfair and inaccurate and two television stations pulled the advertisements because of the alleged inaccuracies. Has anybody seriously questioned the glaringly biased and factually unsupported advertisements being run on television to promote a yes vote for the casino? The talking face in one of the advertisements says, possibly with tongue in cheek: “10,000 jobs, that’s amazing.”

It sure is.

Robert C. Dick

Castine