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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFE
A great place to live and visit, New Hampshire
is unparalleled in its beauty, peacefulness and
overall quality of life. Low taxes, fine
schools, quiet safe neighborhoods, solid hard
working people and a feeling of New England pride
found no where else in this country.
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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFE

• What does everyone see here?

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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFE

• I will try not to bury you with dizzying
  NUMBERS, NUMBERS, and MORE NUMBERS
• PROJECTIONS SPECULATION GUESSWORK

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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFELets start with
some FACTS

• Would anyone argue that NH is consistently THE
  BEST STATE in the country with regard to QUALITY
  OF LIFE?
• In 2007, Hanover was voted 2 in the country and
  Salem 85 out of thousands of choices for Best
  Places to Live in America by Money Magazine.
• Nashua/Manchester was voted 1 in 1987 and 1997
• The Quality of Life requirements listed LOW
  CRIME as the number one contributor to Quality
  of Life
• Guess which state ranked 50th as the Most
  Dangerous State
• Guess who has ranked 1st for the last five
  straight years?
• see handout - Crime State 2008_Most Dangerous

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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFELets start with
some FACTS

• The hospitality industry in New Hampshire is
  vital to our states economy. New Hampshire
  travelers spent 4.4 billion in our restaurants,
  hotels, BBs, attractions and events in 2008.
• These travelers were greeted by just under
  70,000 ambassadors employed in the hospitality
  industry throughout New Hampshire.
• As the second-largest employer in the state,
  hospitality is more than just an industry it is a
  culture and a part of the New Hampshire way of
  life.

   John H. Lynch Governor
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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFELets start with
some FACTS

• The Lodging and Restaurant Industry will
  contribute over 225,000,000 in taxes through
  rooms and meals tax and has grown every single
  year over the past 10 years.
• When you add in BET, BPT, Beer Tax, Electric
  Consumption Tax, ID tax, Communications Service
  Tax.our industry accounts for over 20 of all
  taxes collected by the State of New Hampshire.
• The Hospitality Industry has a proven history of
  providing significant revenue to the State of
  NHThe Millennium projections are WAY too high
  and cannot be trusted.

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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFELets start with
some FACTS
Forecast WPD data from Millennium Gaming
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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFEConvenience
Casinos WILL NOT.

• Create JobsI believe it will steal them from
  hospitality and retail industriesthere will be a
  zero net gain of jobs ONCE construction is
  completed.
• Play Fair in their pricing of food and liquor.
  They will discount their prices creating an
  UNFAIR advantage.
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• Attract visitors or tourists further than 45
  minutes away. It will attract those who live and
  work in our communities and drain their
  discretionary dollars at the slot machine.
• see handout No Tourism Benefit
• Add to the Quality of Life in New Hampshire.
• Governor Lynch has said he wants
• "clear evidence that the expansion of gambling
  would not negatively impact New Hampshire's high
  quality of life."

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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFEConvenience
Casinos WILL

• Expand and not be limited to Rockingham Park once
  the door is opened.
• Hurt the Hospitality Industry and our local NH
  economy by draining discretionary spending.
• See handout - Impact on Hospitality
• Ask for more and more just like Bill Paulos of
  Cannery (Millennium principle) did in
  Pennsylvania
• See handout - Bill Paulos, Principal, Cannery
  Casino Resorts-testimony

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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFELets talk
BRANDING for a moment

• When you think of Vermont, what do you think of?
  
• Mountains, Skiing, Hiking .
• What about Massachusetts?
• Faneuil Hall
  The
  Berkshires
• What about Connecticut?
• IS THAT THE IMAGE WE WANT TO PORTRAY TO OUR NH
  TOURISTS?

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The White Mountains
The Lakes Region
The Seacoast
AND SLOT MACHINES??
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One of these things is not like the other.
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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFEMore about
BRANDING

• Lets look a little closer to home
• All of our properties have a BRAND that we not
  only protect, but we want our customers to know
  and love
• Faced with adversity and tough times/choices, do
  we turn our brand upside down?

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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFEMore about
BRANDING

• For example
• If Faced with declining sales, would the
  marketing folks try to go after prospects theyre
  not yet getting?...
• Children and families for example
• What if the marketing team suggests hiring a
  clown to entertain nightly

a unique urban bistro, wine and jazz bar. We
are dedicated to providing a memorable dining
experience ...
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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFEMore about
BRANDING

• Michael would laugh and kick his marketing team
  right out of the office at the mention of
  bringing in a Clown to attract families to his
  fine establishment.
• But thats EXACTLY what bringing
  
  Convenience Casino Gambling
  
  to NH would be doingTurning the
  NH
  BRAND upside down

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• Tom Boucher CEO/Owner Great NH Restaurants,
  Inc. Bedford Past Chairman NHLRA 2005
• Betty Falton Owner - The Glen, Pittsburgh Past
  Chairwoman NHLRA 2000
• Dicky Desai, Owner Hillbrook Motel, Bedford Past
  Chairman NHLRA 2007
• Moe Mozier, Owner Re/Max Town Country, Keene
  Past Chairman NHLRA 1986
• John Tinios Owner Galley Hatch Pop-Overs,
  Portsmouth Past Chairman NHLRA 1994
• Terry O-Brien Owner Red Parka Steakhouse
  Pub, Glen Past Chairwoman NHLRA 1992
• Dewey Mark - Owner Red Parka Steakhouse Pub,
  Glen Past Chairman NHLRA 1980
• Carl Lindblade - Hospitality Management at
  UNH-Durham Past Chairman NHLRA 1991
• Sean OKane - Past Chairman NHLRA 2004
  
  
  (former Commissioner of the NH
  Department of Resources and Economic Development)
• Eric Roberts Owner Lui Lui, Nashua Past
  Board Member Member since 1999

The following NHLRA Past Chairs and Board
Members have signed on to OPPOSE any Expansion of
Gambling
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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFE
I must do something always solves
more problems than Something must be done"
-Author Unknown
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PROTECT OUR NH QUALITY OF LIFEWhat should NH do?

• Decrease Spending First Weve all had to do
  this in our businesses (and our home budgets)
  last year and likely all of this year and beyond.
• No new taxes Not far behind the importance of NH
  being the lowest crime State, is its tax
  friendly environment of no sales and no income
  tax. This must remain intact.
• Increase Tourism Budget Recognizing that this
  does not contradict the first bullet because this
  is spending that creates a true return on
  investment in growing state revenue. Invest in
  the industry who is delivering 20 of the States
  revenue.

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