Gaming proponents continue undeterred after the defeat of Issue 6 on the November 2008 ballot.\u00a0 Penn National Gaming, which funded the opposition to Issue 6 that resulted in the initiative\u2019s 62%-38% loss, is proposing a more inclusive initiative to appear on the November 2009 ballot.\u00a0 The proposal would allow up to four casinos in Ohio and authorize Ohio\u2019s seven race tracks to offer full Las Vegas-style gaming.\u00a0 The new proposal would require license fees of $50 million to $100 million for each casino and race track.<\/p>\n
Penn National Gaming is negotiating with the Ohio legislature to formulate a proposal that would appear on the ballot without requiring petition signatures.\u00a0 Since the legislature would be involved in drafting and voting on the proposal, the new proposal could be perceived as more even-handed and fair to taxpayers.\u00a0 With Ohio\u2019s economy in dire straits, voters may be more inclined to approve a gaming initiative that would bring money and jobs to the state.<\/p>\n
My Ohio Now, the organization that proposed Issue 6 last year, is also preparing a drive for another ballot initiative in 2009.\u00a0 Issue 6 drew criticism from voters in part because it would have authorized a virtual monopoly of a single casino in Wilmington, Ohio.\u00a0 Unlike Issue 6, My Ohio Now\u2019s new proposal would allow casinos in Ohio’s three largest cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gaming proponents continue undeterred after the defeat of Issue 6 on the November 2008 ballot.\u00a0 Penn National Gaming, which funded the opposition to Issue 6 that resulted in the initiative\u2019s 62%-38% loss, is proposing a more inclusive initiative to appear on the November 2009 ballot.\u00a0 The proposal would allow up to four casinos in Ohio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87ey3-tI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}