He's ba-ack!

The owner of the Guam Greyhound track is nothing if not persistent. Rude even. Devilishly.

He has badgered Guamanians for years in successive attempts to, first, legalize large-scale commercial gambling on Guam and, second, get the monopoly on it.

He's run a couple of hugely expensive public initiatives, unsuccessfully. Each time, though, it costs the people of Guam thousands and thousands of dollars to entertain his ambition and to fight it.

But has he been in even the slightest way deterred? Don't bet on it.

Earlier this week he offered to "give" the the cash-strapped Government of Guam ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS ($100,000,000.00) if GovGuam would give him a 40 year monopoly and casino rights. He did this because he was "saddened" by the poor state of Guam's coffers.

But the Governor wouldn't cough up: "the people have spoken". Yep, the people have spoken loud and clear and consistently. But that won't keep a good idea down.

Today the Marianas Variety carried a legal notice from the Guam Election Commission advertising yet another of his initiatives, Proposal A: "An initiative to legalize slot machine gambling in Guam ... [to raise taxes] to be used for health care for Guam residents, public schools in Guam, addictive behavior counseling ...."

Methinks he has addictive behavior issues with running this same, sad campaign over and over and over an....

See: Camacho rejects $100M casino deal

Not a chance

Against the odds