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Gambling amendment group not fundraising

Published on May 11, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

The panel behind a proposed constitutional amendment on gambling again posted no new fundraising as of its April report. But Voters in Charge has nearly burned through the $195,000 given to it as seed money from the No Casinos anti-gambling expansion organization — awkwardly misspelled in a report as “No Cashinos.” The committee’s campaign finance report for April shows total expenditures at $189,100, according to the Division of Elections. Much of that money was given to paid petition gatherers. The amendment would “ensure…

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Economists puzzle over proposed gambling amendment

Published on April 27, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

If it’s approved, would a proposed constitutional amendment outlaw currently legal kinds of gambling? A panel of state economic analysts debated the question on Tuesday. The Financial Impact Estimating Conference, a slate of economists for the Legislature and executive branches, held a public workshop in Tallahassee on the Voter Control of Gambling amendment. It would “ensure that Florida voters shall have the exclusive right to decide whether to authorize casino gambling,” the ballot summary says. It’s aiming to get on the 2018 statewide…

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Crucial federal trial over gambling pushed back to fall

Published on March 29, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Associated Press

A federal judge is pushing back the start of a crucial trial over the future of gambling in Florida. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle agreed Monday to delay until October a trial that will decide whether the Seminole Tribe of Florida can have blackjack tables at their casinos. The trial was initially scheduled for this summer but attorneys for the state and the tribe asked for the delay. The tribe filed the lawsuit last year after key portions of a…

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Jose Felix Diaz files more changes to Seminole Compact

Published on March 3, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

The House’s lead negotiator on the Seminole Compact has filed another strike-all onto the troubled gambling legislation. State Rep. Jose Felix Diaz, the Miami Republican who chairs the House Regulatory Affairs Committee, filed his amendment Thursday, the day before the House is scheduled to begin its consideration of gambling legislation for 2016. Diaz was in the House’s Thursday floor session and couldn’t be reached. According to a bill comparison by LobbyTools, the biggest change is the deletion of language on advance deposit…

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Effort to appease pari-mutuels is killing Seminole Compact

Published on March 1, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

If the Seminole Compact and related legislation don’t pass this session, lawmakers will have no one to blame but themselves, the tribe’s Tallahassee-based attorney said Tuesday. Barry Richard, who represents the Seminole Tribe of Florida, blamed the apparent Tuesday morning collapse of the 2016 gambling bills on lawmakers bending over backward to appease the state’s dog and horse racing concerns. “The issue hanging us up is what happens to the pari-mutuels,” he told FloridaPolitics.com in a phone interview. State Sen. Tom Lee,…

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Senate punts — for now — on Seminole Compact, gambling bill

Published on February 9, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

As the state House of Representatives moved on its package of gambling bills Tuesday, the Senate hit pause and delayed consideration of the Seminole Compact and related legislation for another week. “My intention is to (temporarily postpone) the gaming bills today for one week to give our committee members the opportunity to digest the various amendments being filed,” state Sen. Rob Bradley, chair of the Regulated Industries Committee, told FloridaPolitics.com earlier in the day. After the committee’s afternoon meeting, Bradley told reporters the delay…

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Emails show state’s about-face on card games enforcement

Published on January 27, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

The same state agency now calling designated-player card games illegal was calling them “in compliance” with state gambling law as recently as last July, records show. What’s not clear is what caused the about-face. The enforcement is happening at the same time that lawmakers are considering whether to approve a new “compact” with the Seminole Tribe of Florida, whose casinos compete with tracks in South Florida and elsewhere that also offer cards and slots. The Department of Business and Professional Regulation, which regulates gambling,…

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Gambling amendment group not fundraising

Economists puzzle over proposed gambling amendment

Crucial federal trial over gambling pushed back to fall

Jose Felix Diaz files more changes to Seminole Compact

Effort to appease pari-mutuels is killing Seminole Compact

Senate punts — for now — on Seminole Compact, gambling bill

Emails show state’s about-face on card games enforcement

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