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Casino backers to meet with Strickland, legislative leaders
Two key backers of the successful campaign to approve casinos for four Ohio cities are scheduled to meet separately on Tuesday, Nov. 10, with Gov. Ted Strickland, House Speaker Armond Budish, D-Beachwood, and Senate President Bill Harris, R-Ashland, Bob Tenenbaum, spokesman for the pro-casino Ohio Jobs and Growth Plan said.
“It’s really an initial meeting to say, ‘look, there’s legislation that needs to be passed,’” said Tenenbaum.
Dan Gilbert, majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Tim Wilmott, president and chief operating officers of Penn National Gaming, are to be in the meetings with the top state officials, said Tenenbaum
Issue 3, the casino ballot plan approved by voters last week, called for passage of legislation implementing the casino plan within six months.
The constitutional amendment also called for Strickland, with the approval of the Senate, to appoint the seven members of the Ohio Casino Control Commission.
Tenenbaum said that Gilbert and Wilmott are aware that there already has been talk of putting new constitutional amendments on the ballot next year to change the casino plan.
The plan approved by voters calls for casinos in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo and Columbus.
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