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You folks in Kentucky, please remember this guy....
Mike Puccinelli
Reporting
(CBS) AURORA, Ill. Casino gambling has always had it critics. Nw a political campaign is taking aim at the casino in Aurora, trying to score points with voters in Kentucky.
As CBS 2 West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli reports, Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher visited Aurora to find out just how back casino gambling could be for a commercial he was recording.
It's a story without a happy ending, the ad claims.
But the spokesperson for Aurora's mayor disagrees.
I think you look at Aurora and it's anything but a story without a happy ending, Carie Anne Ergo said. We have half a billion dollars worth of development from donations. The area is booming.
Aurora isn't mentioned by name in the ad and Ergo says Gov. Fletcher never indicated what he was up to when the mayor met with him for a few weeks ago to discuss his visit.
We had no idea he would be blasting Aurora just a few weeks later in the news, Ergo said.
In the first ad of his no casinos tour, Fletcher strolls in front of the Hollywood Casino along Aurora's river front.
In his second commercial he introduces us to Norma Brandt, an Illinois woman who stole to support her gambling habit.
But Aurora's police chief says the crime rate in the City of Lights has actually fallen since the casino came to town.
We haven't seen any significant impact since .....
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To Show Evils Of GamblingMike Puccinelli
Reporting
(CBS) AURORA, Ill. Casino gambling has always had it critics. Nw a political campaign is taking aim at the casino in Aurora, trying to score points with voters in Kentucky.
As CBS 2 West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli reports, Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher visited Aurora to find out just how back casino gambling could be for a commercial he was recording.
It's a story without a happy ending, the ad claims.
But the spokesperson for Aurora's mayor disagrees.
I think you look at Aurora and it's anything but a story without a happy ending, Carie Anne Ergo said. We have half a billion dollars worth of development from donations. The area is booming.
Aurora isn't mentioned by name in the ad and Ergo says Gov. Fletcher never indicated what he was up to when the mayor met with him for a few weeks ago to discuss his visit.
We had no idea he would be blasting Aurora just a few weeks later in the news, Ergo said.
In the first ad of his no casinos tour, Fletcher strolls in front of the Hollywood Casino along Aurora's river front.
In his second commercial he introduces us to Norma Brandt, an Illinois woman who stole to support her gambling habit.
But Aurora's police chief says the crime rate in the City of Lights has actually fallen since the casino came to town.
We haven't seen any significant impact since .....