Having gotten the nod from Maine legislators, a third casino could soon be heading the state’s way. Appropriately enough, it will appear on the ballot as Question Three. Opponent Jim Handy has his shorts in a wad over the location of a potential temporary casino … the same site where the permanent casino will be built. Chances are, it’s going to be there — whether sooner or later. This looks like a one-Handy campaign to make an issue out of nothing.
It’s arms race within Maine, with two racinos on the ballot and Penn National Gaming‘s racino, Hollywood Slots, petitioning for table games. But the war isn’t strictly intramural. Maine’s stocking up gambling positions like nuclear warheads just as casinos in Massachusetts have become a fait accompli and even long-resistant New Hampshire is having serious second thoughts.
