SAMPLE LETTER FROM CONSTITUENT TO LEGISLATORS

SAMPLE LETTER FROM CONSTITUENT TO LEGISLATORS 

Dear Legislator,

My name is XXXXX XXXX and I am a registered voter in (TOWN/CITY).  I want to make it clear to you that my family and our Commonwealth desperately need the jobs and the long-overdue benefits of the public revenue which destination resort casinos will provide. I hope you are supporting this proposal, and I urge you to submit written testimony to the Joint Standing Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies requesting a favorable report. I plan on working hard in our community to gain support for it and make sure that it is passed in the Legislature.

More than half of the adults living in Massachusetts have no four-year college degree, and there are simply not enough good jobs for us to support our families.  We must take advantage of this opportunity to give tens of thousands of these skilled-workers jobs that they can support a family with, while also getting tens of thousands of construction workers on the job so that they can feed their families during these tough economic times.  Countless laid-off workers need the opportunities presented by destination resort casinos.

Never mind the jobs created, the revenue alone that this proposal will bring to our state makes it worth passage in the Legislature.  My children, nieces and nephews are in crowded classrooms where there are not enough books.  Hundreds of thousands of us can barely afford our property taxes.  There are firemen and police officers who are working alone or in under-staffed crews on dangerous scenes because their local departments are cash-strapped.  We all know someone who has gotten a flat tire in one of the thousands of pot holes across the state, and we can only pray that something like what happened in Minnesota this past summer doesn’t happen here.  The destination resort casino proposal would create new resources to address these many challenges.

It is time to give workers that have been marginalized simply because they could not afford a college degree a fair chance at a family-sustaining job that actually offers potential for growth.  It is time to give our state’s budget the boost it desperately needs in order to sustain and enhance the programs and services we rely on as residents of the Commonwealth.  My family and countless members of my community strongly encourage you to support destination resort casinos in the Commonwealth.  Thank you.

Sincerely,

XXXXX XXXXX

(ADDRESS)
(CITY, MA ZIP)