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Bookie recipe for gaming panel

By Kevin Cullen

 |  Globe Columnist  

  February 28, 2012

State officials are complaining that they are having trouble getting applicants for the new Massachusetts Gaming Commission. Corporate types are turning their noses up at the $112,500 annual salary. But the biggest obstacle to finding qualified members of the new gaming commission is not the supposedly miserly salary; it’s the law that bars convicted felons from serving on the gaming commission. Let’s bring in people who really know the business: bookies.

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