“This is good now it is up to the legislature to decide,” Robert Maynard, First Selectman for East Windsor, told the newspaper.įebruary saw leaders in East Windsor sign a deal with MMCT Venture, which is a joint venture of the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, to serve as the home of a planned satellite casino. In Connecticut, residents of the community of East Windsor have reportedly voted against the passage of a proposed local ordinance that could have jeopardized the plan to develop a new tribal-run casino on the site of a former Showcase Cinemas franchise.Īccording to a report from the local Hartford Courant newspaper, the Thursday ballot was held as part of a special town meeting and saw voters defeat the proposed measure, which would have imposed location restrictions on any potential new casino and subjected the whole plan to a town-wide referendum, by a tally of 198 to 112.
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