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  In addition to their contention that casinos tend to erode and destroy the social, economic and political fabric of a community, opponents claim that the Legislature, in passing the law, succumbed to "deep-pocketed lobbyists, special interests, political pressure.''
  Well, if the latter were grounds for scrapping laws, we would no doubt be living in a lawless state, and perhaps that is where we are heading, because the formula that created the gambling law -- money, special interests and political pressure -- seems to be the same one opponents are using to overturn it.
  "Obviously, should voters decide otherwise in November, we would have to make some difficult decisions in terms of cuts that would probably have to be made at that time,'' he said.
  "That's one of the issues I thought about when I woke up this morning.''
  All the signs and symptoms -- whether it is the hundreds of residents traveling to casinos in Maine, Rhode Island and Connecticut each year, or the billions of dollars residents spend on lottery tickets each year -- suggest Massachusetts has a gambling itch that the prevention strategy by casino foes will not scratch.