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Political veteran to head casino panel

Crosby vows aboveboard process for picking developers

Governor Deval Patrick plans to appoint the chairman of the powerful new gaming commission at noon today. The appointment will likely be one of the most important of his term. The five member commission will decide many crucial regulations around the state’s new casino industry and just as significantly will decide which developers get licenses to participate in the multi-billion dollar industry. Patrick’s choice does not need to be confirmed by the Legislature or the Governor’s Council.

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This is a good appointment. This is a good guy and I don't know him personally and am not a Republican

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Good appointment. And he's taking a pay cut to do it.

BING CROSBY would be a more applicable choice than this hack.i mean this choice is right up there with patricks choice a few years back of one james all rise fagan,without question the biggest single threat to the safety and well being of this once great states residents, as one of his appts.to serve on his newly formed ethics commisssion. if steve crosby was a racehorse, his parentage would have been peter meade out of suzanne bump.on second thought, this governor is so inept and clueless, maybe he thought he WAS APPOINTING BING CROSBY. ma