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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
New plan calls for 15 casinos - Montgomery County could qualify
State Rep. Dennis Murray, D-Sandusky, on Tuesday, Oct. 13, introduced a resolution that would permit construction of 15 casinos in Ohio. It is House Joint Resolution 4.
If approved by supermajorities in the House and Senate, the proposed constitutional amendment would go on the May 4, 2010 ballot. To put an issue on the ballot, requires 20 votes in the 33-member Senate and 60 votes in the 99-member House.
The plan calls for:
*Up to six casinos in counties with a population of 400,000 or more. Montgomery County, with a population of 534,626, would be in this group.
*Up to five casinos in counties with a population of 100,000 or more but less than 400,000. Butler, Clark, Greene, Miami and Warren counties would be in this group.
*Up to four casinos in counties with a population of less than 100,000. Champaign, Preble and Darke counties would be in this group.
Voters in a county or city would have to approve gambling for a casino to be built.
A tax of 50 percent would be levied on gross casino revenue, with money distributed to the state, local governments and school districts.
Introduction of the resolution comes with Issue 3, a plan to put casinos in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo, on the Nov. 3 ballot.
That plan calls for a tax of 33 percent on gross casino revenue, with most of the money going to local governments and school districts.
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Two county humane societies oppose Issue 2
The Capital Area Humane Society in Columbus and the Cleveland Animal Protection League in Cleveland on Tuesday, Oct., 13, announced their opposition to Issue 2 on the Nov. 3 ballot.
The issue is a proposed constitutional amendment to create the Livestock Care Standards Board, which would prescribe standards for animal care and well-being. Gov. Ted Strickland and major agriculture and business groups are backing the issue.
Representatives of the two groups said they support creating such a board but it would be a mistake to create the board through a constitutional amendment, which couldn’t be changed by the legislature, a press release said.
“The interests of Ohioans and the welfare of livestock and poultry would have been better served had this board been created through a legislative effort at the Ohio Statehouse,” Jodi Lytle Buckman, executive director of the Capital Area Humane Society, said in a press release.
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Kasich, Huckabee team up for webcast to combat Ohio “brain drain”
Mike Huckabee today, Oct. 13, is teaming up with fellow Republican John Kasich to talk about keeping “talented young people engaged and employed in Ohio.”
Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and 2008 presidential candidate, and Kasich, Republican candidate for governor in 2010, will join a live studio audience for an interactive webcast conversation at 12:15 p.m., a press release said. The webcast is from The Ohio State University.
Viewers can watch the webcast live on Kasich’s campaign Web site.
Kasich, a former U.S. House member from suburban Columbus, and Huckabee will take questions from the audience and from Twitter and Facebook users “about the importance of restoring economic opportunity to all young Ohioans,” the release said.
