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Dear Governor Rendell:

I am writing as one of the 1.5 million constituents of our
courageous City Council led by Councilman Frank DiCicco and our
elected representatives in the General Assembly (Senator Fumo,
and Representatives O達rien, Keller and Josephs) and of our
newly-elected Mayor Michael Nutter, who are united with PNA in an
effort to re-site the casinos.

Your intemperate and misplaced attack this week is not
appreciated by the residents of Philadelphia, who have worked for
over a year to relocate the two casinos in Philadelphia away from
neighborhoods.

You, and the casino operators, stand alone in the way of moving
these slots parlors to more appropriate locations. Please direct
your efforts, and the considerable goodwill you have as the most
popular politician in Pennsylvania in the last thirty years, to
finding a better location for the casinos and for creating a
waterfront which will be a valued legacy to good planning and
good government.

Respectfully,
Scott Seiber
Fishtown

Dear Governor Rendell:
Enough is enough. Our people and our elected officials continue
to vehemently oppose the siting of casinos in poorly chosen
areas by unscrupulous casino developers. To "suck it up" as you
propose is no way to speak to the people and no way to run a
state or local government. You are out of order.
Matt Sandler

Dear Governor Rendell:

I am writing as one of the 1.5 million constituents of our
courageous City Council led by Councilman Frank DiCicco and our
elected representatives in the General Assembly (Senator Fumo,
and Representatives O達rien, Keller and Josephs) and of our
newly-elected Mayor Michael Nutter, who are united with PNA in
an effort to re-site the casinos.

Your intemperate and misplaced attack this week is not
appreciated by the residents of Philadelphia, who have worked
for over a year to relocate the two casinos in Philadelphia
away from neighborhoods.

You, and the casino operators, stand alone in the way of moving
these slots parlors to more appropriate locations. Please
direct your efforts, and the considerable goodwill you have as
the most popular politician in Pennsylvania in the last thirty
years, to finding a better location for the casinos and for
creating a waterfront which will be a valued legacy to good
planning and good government.

Respectfully,

Beatrix Daily

Dear Governor Rendell:
I say the interview on television. You were a very good Mayor and are a very good
Govenor; however, you are way off base on resiting, on insisting your way or the
highway, making threats against the citizens of Philadelphia, the obvious political
payback to contributors and frinds. I understand payback is inherently part of the
process, but you utterly wrong to do it at the expense of the citizens of
Philadelphia. You saying that you can help with traffic, parking etc. implys that you
could implement something substantial and eliminate the problem is false. It will
take $100's of millions to accomplish anything substantive like mass transit and
confiscation of property along Columbus Boulevard. Nothing so far has made any
sense. The fact is resiting to the Navy Yard will allow development of many more
casinos, hotels, restruants, bars, clubs and adult activities. We could have Madi
Gras year round and generate far more income and jobs then will ever possible with
current proposals.

Dear Governor Rendell:

I am writing as one of the 1.5 million constituents of our
courageous City Council led by Councilman Frank DiCicco and our
elected representatives in the General Assembly (Senator Fumo,
and Representatives O達rien, Keller and Josephs) and of our
newly-elected Mayor Michael Nutter, who are united with PNA in
an
effort to re-site the casinos.

Your intemperate and misplaced attack this week is not
appreciated by the residents of Philadelphia, who have worked
for
over a year to relocate the two casinos in Philadelphia away
from
neighborhoods.

You, and the casino operators, stand alone in the way of moving
these slots parlors to more appropriate locations. Please direct
your efforts, and the considerable goodwill you have as the most
popular politician in Pennsylvania in the last thirty years, to
finding a better location for the casinos and for creating a
waterfront which will be a valued legacy to good planning and
good government.

Respectfully,

Linda Holzwarth

Dear Governor Rendell:

The original casino bill was gutted, then the new version
passed. It is apparent that this is all about special interests
and big money, not what is best for the city, the state or more
importantly the neighborhoods where casinos will be sited.

Please direct your efforts, and the considerable goodwill you
have as the most popular politician in Pennsylvania in the last
thirty years, and do not allow casinos in Philadelphia, and you
can be assured that you will leave a valued legacy of good
planning and good government. Yes, there is give and take but
this is not one of those instances, you are not suppose to sell
out the people that elected you to the corporations.

Dear Governor Rendell:
I moved to Queen Village 20 years ago when it was a marginal
neighborhood, served on the neighbors association through the
Southwark revitalization (hours each week), was block captain
for 10 years, served on town watch, planted trees and flowers,
swept streets for 12 years before the City would and generally
busted my hump to make this neighorhood great. I voted for and
supported you. PLEASE DON'T THROW ALL OUR HARD WORK AWAY.
The infrastructure of this neighborhood - streets, parking,
water run off, sewage, etc. can't atand casinos on the
waterfront. And you know it. PLEASE STOP!!

Dear Governor Rendell:

I am writing as one of the 1.5 million constituents of our
courageous City Council led by Councilman Frank DiCicco and our
elected representatives in the General Assembly (Senator Fumo,
and Representatives O達rien, Keller and Josephs) and of our
newly-elected Mayor Michael Nutter, who are united with PNA in
an effort to re-site the casinos.

Your intemperate and misplaced attack this week is not
appreciated by the residents of Philadelphia, who have worked
for over a year to relocate the two casinos in Philadelphia
away from neighborhoods.

You, and the casino operators, stand alone in the way of moving
these slots parlors to more appropriate locations. Please
direct your efforts, and the considerable goodwill you have as
the most popular politician in Pennsylvania in the last thirty
years, to finding a better location for the casinos and for
creating a waterfront which will be a valued legacy to good
planning and good government.

Respectfully,

John

Dear Governor Rendell:
am writing as one of the 1.5 million constituents of our
courageous City Council led by Councilman Frank DiCicco and our
elected representatives in the General Assembly (Senator Fumo,
and Representatives O達rien, Keller and Josephs) and of our
newly-elected Mayor Michael Nutter, who are united with PNA in
an effort to re-site the casinos.

Your intemperate and misplaced attack this week is not
appreciated by the residents of Philadelphia, who have worked
for over a year to relocate the two casinos in Philadelphia away
from neighborhoods.

You, and the casino operators, stand alone in the way of moving
these slots parlors to more appropriate locations. Please direct
your efforts, and the considerable goodwill you have as the most
popular politician in Pennsylvania in the last thirty years, to
finding a better location for the casinos and for creating a
waterfront which will be a valued legacy to good planning and
good government.

Respectfully,
Mary Galiano


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Dear Governor Rendell:
City Council, our Representatives and State Senator Fumo all
support resiting the casinos mandated for Philadelphia to more
appropriate locations that will not destroy thriving, family-
friendly neighborhoods. Why? Because they have listened to the
very real concerns of their constituents and their job is to
represent the people.

Our City Planning Commission rated the two waterfront sites as
the worst possible locations for these casinos. No thinking has
gone into the negative social and financial costs these casinos
bring to Philadelphia and how we will bear them. These burdens
can be offset by appropriate siting. No studies to evaluate the
impacts to existing businesses and to our Port industries, which
provide high-wage, family-sustaining jobs, have been conducted.
No credible traffic plans have been proposed that would actually
mitigate problems on our already congested Columbus Boulevard;
the street will become a parking lot! These sites are within 200
and 500 feet respectively of residential streets. Kids play on
those streets! In addition, both casinos misrepresented their
applications to the Gaming Board: as reflected in public
comments, an overwhelming majority of residents opposed both
locations, but particularly (98%) Foxwoods' location- no one is
ready to welcome them- and SugarHouse does not have control of
its site, nor good prospects for it in the near future. These
sites do not work for Philadelphia!

Resiting is the only solution that makes sense. The sooner the
casinos are resited appropriately, the sooner they will be up
and running. And Philadelphia will be able to reap the benefits,
while minimizing the harms, instead of being left to deal with
the baggage. It will also allow our waterfront to be developed
for its highest use, to become an amenity for the entire city,
and in a way that makes Philadelphia a more attractive place to
live and work, not just visit.

Dear Governor Rendell:

I am writing as one of the 1.5 million constituents of our
courageous City Council led by Councilman Frank DiCicco and our
elected representatives in the General Assembly (Senator Fumo,
and Representatives O達rien, Keller and Josephs) and of our
newly-elected Mayor Michael Nutter, who are united with PNA in an
effort to re-site the casinos.

Your intemperate and misplaced attack this week is not
appreciated by the residents of Philadelphia, who have worked for
over a year to relocate the two casinos in Philadelphia away from
neighborhoods.

You, and the casino operators, stand alone in the way of moving
these slots parlors to more appropriate locations. Please direct
your efforts, and the considerable goodwill you have as the most
popular politician in Pennsylvania in the last thirty years, to
finding a better location for the casinos and for creating a
waterfront which will be a valued legacy to good planning and
good government.

Respectfully,

Jack Van Skiver Jr.

Dear Governor Rendell:

I am writing as one of the 1.5 million constituents of our
courageous City Council and of our newly-elected Mayor Michael
Nutter, who are united with PNA in an effort to re-site the
casinos.

Your intemperate and misplaced attack this week is not
appreciated by the residents of Philadelphia, who have worked
for over a year to relocate the two casinos in Philadelphia away
from neighborhoods.

You, and the casino operators, stand alone in the way of moving
these slots parlors to more appropriate locations. Please direct
your efforts, and the considerable goodwill you have as the most
popular politician in Pennsylvania in the last thirty years, to
finding a better location for the casinos and for creating a
waterfront which will be a valued legacy to good planning and
good government.

You only have yourself to blame for any delay. You could not
get casinos in Philadelphia while you were our mayor, so you
pushed casinos in the State legislation. The bill authorizing
the casinos was passed by a ruse you helped develop. The
original casino bill was gutted, then the new version passed by
unspecting representatives. It is apparent that this is all
about special interests and big money, not what is best for the
city, the state or more importantly the neighborhoods where
casinos will be sited.

City Council represents US, the citizens and voters, not you nor
the casinos. Allow them to do their job. You cannot be voted
out of office over this; a City Council member might be.

Respectfully,

Dear Governor Rendell:
I am writing as one of the 1.5 million constituents of our
courageous City Council led by Councilman Frank DiCicco and our
elected representatives in the General Assembly (Senator Fumo,
and Representatives O達rien, Keller and Josephs) and of our
newly-elected Mayor Michael Nutter, who are united with PNA in
an effort to re-site the casinos.

Your intemperate and misplaced attack this week is not
appreciated by the residents of Philadelphia, who have worked
for over a year to relocate the two casinos in Philadelphia away
from neighborhoods.

You, and the casino operators, stand alone in the way of moving
these slots parlors to more appropriate locations. Please direct
your efforts, and the considerable goodwill you have as the most
popular politician in Pennsylvania in the last thirty years, to
finding a better location for the casinos and for creating a
waterfront which will be a valued legacy to good planning and
good government.

Respectfully,

Joanne Kundrat

Dear Governor Rendell:

I've always been a supporter of yours, but am concerned about
the way the casino issue is being handled by you and your
office. I've read your recent remarks about Councilman DiCicco
and you should not blame Council for doing its job. The state
Gaming Board selected the two worst casino sites in
Philadelphia. Council has every right to insist that the
problems caused by locating these casinos next to residential
neighborhoods are solved before giving them the go-ahead to
build their facilities. Better yet, move them to safer locations!

Our City Council is not a rubber stamp. We elect our council
members to protect us, not the Governor and his casino friends.

Please reconsider your position on this matter.

Dear Governor Rendell:

I am writing as one of the 1.5 million constituents of our
courageous City Council led by Councilman Frank DiCicco and our
elected representatives in the General Assembly (Senator Fumo,
and Representatives O達rien, Keller and Josephs) and of our
newly-elected Mayor Michael Nutter, who are united with PNA in
an effort to re-site the casinos.

Your intemperate and misplaced attack this week is not
appreciated by the residents of Philadelphia, who have worked
for over a year to relocate the two casinos in Philadelphia
away from neighborhoods.

You, and the casino operators, stand alone in the way of moving
these slots parlors to more appropriate locations. Please
direct your efforts, and the considerable goodwill you have as
the most popular politician in Pennsylvania in the last thirty
years, to finding a better location for the casinos and for
creating a waterfront which will be a valued legacy to good
planning and good government.

Respectfully,

Susan DeWyngaert

Dear Governor Rendell:
I am writing as one of the 1.5 million constituents of our
courageous City Council led by Councilman Frank DiCicco and our
elected representatives in the General Assembly (Senator Fumo,
and Representatives O達rien, Keller and Josephs) and of our
newly-elected Mayor Michael Nutter, who are united with PNA in an
effort to re-site the casinos.

Your intemperate and misplaced attack this week is not
appreciated by the residents of Philadelphia, who have worked for
over a year to relocate the two casinos in Philadelphia away from
neighborhoods.

You, and the casino operators, stand alone in the way of moving
these slots parlors to more appropriate locations. Please direct
your efforts, and the considerable goodwill you have as the most
popular politician in Pennsylvania in the last thirty years, to
finding a better location for the casinos and for creating a
waterfront which will be a valued legacy to good planning and
good government.

Respectfully,
Megan Richardson

Dear Governor Rendell:
You continue to waste your once-considerable political capital
on the simply stupid notion that it will good for neighborhoods
to drop slots parlors into them. You are wrong. Your
compulsion to force these betting parlors on us is wrong. You
have reached the point where you must undo the deals you made
with other politicians, your friends and donors. There are
costs to your revenue-generating idea that are unavoidable and
will not be unravelled for decades.

Do away with the racino no-compete zones, pay off your pals in
other ways, and move the slots to locations that will generate
revenues with minimal damage.

Don't blame Council. Don't blame the Mayor. Look in the
mirror and blame the guy you see there. Then we -- your
constituents who have steadily supported you -- may see you
again as worthy of support in your future positions, rather
than actively opposed to any role for you in public service.

Dear Governor Rendell:
The citizens of Philadelphia, represented by city
council,have a right to have imput on decisions that will
adversly affect their neighborhoods and their quality of life.
That is what a democracy is. Let us have our voice. gayla Loch

Dear Governor Rendell:
I am one of the 1.5 million constituents of our courageous City
Council led by Councilman Frank DiCicco and our elected
representatives in the General Assembly (Senator Fumo, and
Representatives O達rien, Keller and Josephs) and of our
newly-elected Mayor Michael Nutter, who are united with PNA in an
effort to re-site the casinos.

Your intemperate and misplaced attack this week is not
appreciated by the residents of Philadelphia, who have worked for
over a year to relocate the two casinos in Philadelphia away from
neighborhoods.

You, and the casino operators, stand alone in the way of moving
these slots parlors to more appropriate locations. Please direct
your efforts, and the considerable goodwill you have as the most
popular politician in Pennsylvania in the last thirty years, to
finding a better location for the casinos and for creating a
waterfront which will be a valued legacy to good planning and
good government.

Respectfully,

Dear Governor Rendell:
I am writing as one of the 1.5 million constituents of our courageous City Council
led by Councilman Frank DiCicco and our elected representatives in the General
Assembly (Senator Fumo, and Representatives O達rien, Keller and Josephs) and of
our newly-elected Mayor Michael Nutter, who are united with PNA in an effort to re-
site the casinos.

Your intemperate and misplaced attack this week is not appreciated by the residents
of Philadelphia, who have worked for over a year to relocate the two casinos in
Philadelphia away from neighborhoods.

You, and the casino operators, stand alone in the way of moving these slots parlors
to more appropriate locations. Please direct your efforts, and the considerable
goodwill you have as the most popular politician in Pennsylvania in the last thirty
years, to finding a better location for the casinos and for creating a waterfront which
will be a valued legacy to good planning and good government.

Respectfully,
Samantha Giuliano

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