Is Another Damn Gambling Amendment Going on the Ohio Ballot?
Maybe… The campaign for a $600 million casino off of I-71 in Clinton County has a website: MyOhioNow.com. Details are posted here and here.
Do gambling interests understand that Ohio voters aren’t very fond of plans to expand gambling? The “Ohio Learn and Earn” campaign was as shameless as the current SCHIP campaign with their shameless use of images of cute, racially diverse children to promote their cause. If voters aren’t going to support gambling in exchange for more funding for education, then what sort of song and dance can they do in 2008 to win?
Oh well- I suppose that election season wouldn’t feel quite like election season if Dave Zanotti didn’t have something to bitch about.
I hope gambling does come to Ohio; we are giving our money to every state around us. The first week a casino was opened in Washington, Pa.,$ 8 million was made and shared by those in Pa.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Gov. 0f Ohio and his Attorney General need to get into modern times!
I take serious offense to your excessive punctuation, Mary Kay. It is most unnecessary.
I am not opposed to gambling in principle, but with the crime gambling can bring plus the increases in cost for social services, it is hardly a “bring money and jobs to Ohio” issue.
How do you convince a conservative like me to support a gambling issue? Simple: You stop sponsoring ballot issues to create state sponsored monopolies for one or two gambling interests, and open up gambling entirely. The monopolistic aspect of Ohio Learn and Earn is what offended me so much, and I will continue to vote against any gambling issue which favors specific interests, instead of the general interest.