1. Casino-Free Philadelphia www.CasinoFreePhila.org Find us on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube & Twitter www.CasinoFreePhila.org Find us on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube & Twitter

2. ✦ Casino-Free Philadelphia’s mission is to stop casinos from coming to Philadelphia and close any that open.

3. Casino-Free Campaigns 2006: Operation Transparency 2007: No Way Without Our Say 2007: Philly’s Ballot Box 2008: Operation Hidden Costs 2006: Operation Transparency 2007: No Way Without Our Say 2007: Philly’s Ballot Box 2008: Operation Hidden Costs

4. destination gambling vs. convenience gambling

5. SugarHouse Site

6. Foxwoods Site ?

7. Market East Proposal 87,700 daily rail passenger s 118,700 daily bus passenger s

8. Predatory Gambling

9. State-sponsored predatory gambling The practice of using gambling to prey on human weaknesses as a method for government to raise money for public services.

10. The gambling trade and our government are turning Americans away from being small savers and into habitual bettors.

11. 70% to 90% of casino profits come from 10% of the gamblers

12. But isn’t it voluntary?

13. in the actual language of the casino industry, they want players to “play to extinction”

14. “Near misses are perfectly tuned to stoke the addiction.” Discover Magazine, Feb. 12, 2009

15. ✦ 24-hour accessibility ✦ ATM machines easily available ✦ Free alcohol ✦ And more... Predatory Marketing Practices

16. The Casinos’ Faulty Pitch

17. The Casino Industry ✦ Convenience casinos draw from neighborhoods. ✦ Recreation budget displacement. ✦ People go to closest convenience casino. ✦ Slots parlors have fewer employees per revenue generated than other industries.

18. Hidden Costs Casinos “create expensive police, infrastructure and social impacts, and are likely to leave the city with a net loss of jobs and deficits.” Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority July 2007 report

19. ✦ Crime ✦ Business & Employment ✦ Suicide ✦ Illness ✦ Regulatory Costs ✦ As much as $285 million per year For every 1 dollar in revenue, there are 3 dollars in costs.

20. Who is being targeted?

21. Presentation to PA Gaming Control Board by PhiladelphiaPark Casino & Racetrack, October 22, 2008

22. Is the market saturated?

24. How we got here.

25. Act 71: The PA Gaming Law ✦ Originally a 33-line bill applying to horse racing ✦ Sat in the House for 47 days, and Senate for 100 days, without amendment ✦ On eve of Senate vote, Sen. Fumo replaced 33 lines with 144 pages ✦ House passed bill after midnight on July 4, 2004, without public hearings or input

26. $ $ The Source of Support for Act 71 More than $6 million donated by gambling industry to state political campaigns between January 2000 and July 2004. Tad Decker Loaned $100,000 to Rendell’s campaign (since repaid) Former Chairman of the PA Gaming Control Board Family Foundation of Lewis Katz Friend of Rendell Foxwoods Investor Family Foundation of Ron Rubin Campaign contributor Foxwoods Investor Richard Sprague Criminal defense laywer for Sen. Fumo SugarHouse investor Sen. Fumo $250,000 from the gambling industry Gov. Rendell $1.7 million from the gambling industry

27. The driving forces: a senator from Philadelphia a governor from Philadelphia

28. Act 71 Vote in the State Senate: 30 in favor, 20 opposed all 7 senators from Philadelphia in favor

29. Act 71 Vote in the State House: 113 in favor, 88 opposed all 26 representatives from Philadelphia in favor

30. What about the Supreme Court?

31. Today:

32. Both casinos frozen

33. Pending lawsuits

34. Video poker proposal a threat and an opportunity

35. How we can win.

36. A Declaration of Independence from Casinos

37. We The People.