Ohio voters are about to get yet another chance to vote on casino expansion, experts are saying. Analysts envision a $600 million casino resort that could provide as many as 5,000 jobs in southwestern Ohio.
Nearly a week after Kentucky's governor floated a plan to develop 12 new casinos for his state, there are renewed calls for Ohio to reconsider casino gambling.
One call comes from a Cincinnati City Council member. But a more vocal pitch is coming from a new group called "My Ohio Now." The group wants to see a casino built in Clinton County, along Interstate 71, north of Kings Island.
The group, 'My Ohio Now", plans to open offices at Tri-County Mall this week, to start gathering initiative petitions for a casino vote.
Their efforts emerge as Cincinnati City Council member Jeff Berding also calls on the state legislature to reconsider the casino issue this year. All this comes less than two years after Ohio voters rejected a different plan for casinos in Ohio; a plan that had no provision for a casino close to Cincinnati.
Gov. Steve Beshear formally launched Kentucky's 2008 casino debate just last week with the release of his new gaming proposal.
The governor has proposed a constitutional amendment containing the basic framework of the casino proposal. To make it to voters, proposed constitutional amendment must be approved by three fifths of the Kentucky House and Senate.
"I think it would be really hard to ask the people to vote'' without a detailed plan in place, said Beshear spokesman Dick Brown. That, he claimed, is exactly why the governor's administration is putting together a plan that includes such details as where casinos should be located and how the money they generate would be distributed.
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