“This will not be a quick decision,” said Stephen McCausland, public information officer for the Maine Department of Public Safety. The board will take up the proposal at its April 16 meeting in Bangor. The sale isn’t expected to close until later this year and Churchill Downs must first win license approval in front of the Maine Gambling Control Board. Officials at Hollywood Casino, a Penn National Gaming-owned venue in Bangor, and Oxford’s only Maine competitor, declined to comment on the Churchill Downs acquisition Friday. “The gall of all this is incomprehensible.” “All this time they were saying it was going to be 100 percent locally owned they tried to use that against us,” Robinson said. During a referendum to win a casino in 2010, Black Bear trumpeted its local connections and, Robinson said, later dogged Lewiston when casino supporters there said they would fund the effort by partnering with a large, outside operator.
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