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Patrick, in shift, offers a slots deal

Would accept parlor if Hill gridlock ends

At the State House, Senator Stanley C. Rosenberg (left) and Senator Steven C. Pangiatakos headed back to the Senate offices after talking to reporters outside the governor’s office. At the State House, Senator Stanley C. Rosenberg (left) and Senator Steven C. Pangiatakos headed back to the Senate offices after talking to reporters outside the governor’s office. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff)
By Noah Bierman and Andrea Estes
Globe Staff / July 30, 2010

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In a significant shift in his public position, Governor Deval Patrick said yesterday that he would accept creation of one slot parlor as part of the expanded gambling bill, if legislators agreed to break a logjam that has halted other major business on Beacon Hill. (Full article: 949 words)

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