A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy