A provision that would give faltering Foxwoods an extra year to get up and running on our riverfront has been thrown into the midst of an amendment to a bill that would legalize table games in Pennsylvania. Foxwoods faces a state-imposed deadline to have 1,500 slot machines operating by May 2011, but it has yet to publicly present plans for the casino's design or its financing.

The amendment would push the deadline to May 2012. Though Foxwoods isn't mentioned by name in the bill, it's the only slots parlor the extension would impact.

We need you to tell Rep. Keller that his constituents oppose giving Foxwoods the one-year extension and that he needs to represent our interests.

To add insult to injury, House Majority Leader Todd Eachus claims he doesn't know who added the provision.

So we are also asking Rep. Keller to find out and publicly expose by name the lawmaker who inserted the one-year provision.

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