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No Casinos decries 1st District Court of Appeal decision to allow counties to approve new slot machines

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In the wake of Friday afternoon’s surprise 1st District Court of Appeal ruling allowing Entertainment Creek in the Gadsden County city of Gretna to move forward in implementing new slot machines, the Orlando-based anti-gambling advocacy group No Casinos issued a stern rebuke of the decision. “Today’s court ruling has far-reaching implications for the people of Florida. When voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment in 2004, the will of the people was to limit slot machines to existing locations in two Florida counties,” executive director Paul…

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Pam Bondi goes to Nevada

Drawing on lessons learned after a nightclub massacre last year in Orlando, Attorney General Pam Bondi and members of her

No Casinos comes out decisively against Dana Young’s gambling bill

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Just minutes after House Majority Leader Dana Young released her much-awaited casino gambling legislation, Orlando-based group No Casinos, Inc. released a set of statements blasting the proposal. “This bill would cause the biggest expansion of gambling in Florida history,” said No Casinos President John Sowinski. “It invites wall-to-wall casino gambling in Florida, and the social costs and crime that go with it.” “It creates so much new gambling that it also launches a vast new government bureaucracy to try to regulate it,” inveighed Sowinski,…

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…Today in gaming: A debate-style forum on expanded gaming & a court hearing on barrel racing

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Keep an eye on two events today related to The Great Gaming Debate: The first is a debate-style forum on the proposal to expand casino gambling in Florida, with Orlando attorney John Stemberger, the President of the Florida Family Policy Council as the anti-gambling voice on the five person panel and four people in favor of the proposal. The advocates for more gambling who will participate are Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, the sponsor of the casino bill; Dan Adkins,…

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