For Immediate Release

Contact: Robert W. Hayssen

Seneca County Board of Supervisors
Phone: 315-539-1700; 315-374-7166
rhayssen@rochester.rr.com
1 DiPronio Drive
Waterloo, NY 13165
Seneca County
Board of Supervisors
Press Release
Statement from
Seneca County Board of Supervisors Chairman Robert Hayssen
Waterloo, NY, September 30, 2014: My friends in Oneida County have apparently been drinking heavy
doses of Turning Stone Kool-Aid. In a recent press release, they claim the proposed casino in Seneca County
would cause irreparable harm to current economic development in (Oneida) County, costing thousands of area
residents their livelihoods.

With all due respect to County Executive Picente, really? You cant be serious.

Turning Stone has had a casino monopoly in Central New York for two decades. And it will continue to have a
monopoly in a ten-county region forever. A region that was drawn by or at minimum freely agreed to by the
Oneidas.

Seneca County is not one of those ten counties and has never and will never receive one dime from the Oneidas,
nor from the Senecas to our west. Turning Stone, New York State and Oneida County were all parties to that
negotiation and contractually agreed to the terms establishing the Oneida exclusivity zone, a zone that rendered
Seneca County eligible to compete for a commercial casino license.

While it is true that independent marketing analysis indicates that Lago would yield approximately $30 million in
gaming revenue that currently goes to Turning Stone, which represents about 10 percent of its gaming revenue.
And that assumes Turning Stone doesnt do more to compete to keep those customers.

Will Turning Stone losing 10 percent of its revenue really cost thousands of Oneida County residents their
livelihoods? Really?

And what about the fact that Lago will create $130 million in new casino revenue in its first year? Turning Stone
is free to compete for those new customers with Lago, located 70 miles to its west, or with a new Capital Region
casino, located not much further to the east.

Does County Executive Picente understand what competition is all about? This is America, not Cuba.
Competition is good for businesses and for the customers. Even competition where one party his party gets
a ten-county monopoly.
Game on, County Executive Picente. He was a party to the deal that excluded Seneca County from the Oneidas
exclusivity zone and excluded Seneca County from receiving any share of that fiscal pie. Now hes trying to once
again exclude Seneca County.

Picente also said that his region has experienced unprecedented growth and job creation in recent years.
Congratulations. We in Seneca County have not seen real economic growth or job creation. But wed like to.

Live in my shoes for a day, County Executive Picente. I dont think youd make that same foolish argument.
Really!.