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Brockton Enterprise: Dog Racers Using “Desperate Measures to Overturn the Will of the Voters”

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During our decade-long battle to end the cruelty of dog racing, no newspaper has opposed our efforts more vehemently than the Brockton Enterprise.  So it is with great pride that we now count on their support in protecting the will of the voters on Question 3.  The Enterprise again weighed in on this issue this morning, and their editorial hits the nail on the head:

The 56 percent majority vote should have ended the decade-long debate once and for all, but some racing supporters have refused to accept the inevitable and are taking desperate measures to overturn the will of the voters.

Also, today’s editorial makes another important point: attempts to overturn Question 3 are a distraction from the real work that should be taking place.  Instead of rehashing the debate, opponents should set aside their differences and join with us to make a responsible transition.  Again from the Enterprise:

But the November election was free and fair. The people have spoken, and those who refuse to accept the reality that the dog tracks will soon be gone aren’t doing anyone any favors.

Most of the track workers have moved one. Some have accepted the racing opponents’ offers of job assistance, but most have not – either finding work on their own or clinging to the hope that a miracle will occur and the vote from last fall will be overturned.

That isn’t going to happen, and the sooner everyone accepts that, the better off they will be.

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  1. that it was the Race Tracks that told the workers not to accept state help in finding new work.
       

    Ken Messina is the Massachusetts manager of Rapid Response, a federally-funded program in every state, which responds to companies and employees facing closings and layoffs.

       Messina said his team offered three months ago to set up shop at the dog track, hoping to educate employees about unemployment, health insurance and resume assistance.

       “We were ready to go, and when we started talking to the representatives of the dog track, it was evident they were trying to see if there were any alternative things to keep the track open,” Messina said.

       Track owner George Carney could not be reached for comment.

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    p>That 3 months was at least 6 months ago, now. I’m glad to hear that at least some employees have accepted state help. However, the decision-makers at Raynham Park and Wonderland should be taken to the wood shed for a) toying with those jobs to begin with and b) not pushing all their workers to accept state help immediately.  

  2. So now you’re castigating these employees who hope fervently to hang onto their jobs, many of them having worked there for 20 and 30 years?  You’re a selfish moralist.   These people shouldn’t be scolded simply because they’re trying to do what other workers at far too many American corporations and plants have been doing for the past several years — desperately seeking to hold onto their jobs rather than accept any form of public assistance.  Like I said earlier in another blog, move out of your parents home, rent an apartment or condo, and grow up.   It’s time to become an adult!  

    • Or maybe a reading-comprehension problem. Saying “…it was the Race Tracks that told the workers not to accept state help in finding new work” does not in any way castigate or scold those workers. Neither does saying “…the decision-makers at Raynham Park and Wonderland should be taken to the wood shed…” Your comment is badly-executed concern-trolling.

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      p>The gratuitous insults at the end of it do not make it any more persuasive.

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