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No Casinos: Don’t reward Seminole Tribe threats on Compact renewal

Published on June 26, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

As the combative issue of Florida gambling once again heats up, No Casinos calls the renewed debate a simple matter of “bad faith,” which they warn shouldn’t be rewarded. This week, the Seminole Tribe of Florida sent a five-page letter to Gov. Rick Scott and other legislative leaders vowing to continue providing banked card games, despite the upcoming end of the gambling arrangement with the state. John Sowinski, president of No Casinos, the organization that opposes gambling in Florida, believes that…

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House gaming legislation to be workshopped March 26

Published on March 17, 2015 in Top Headlines by Ryan Ray

Reports of the death of Dana Young‘s new gaming legislation are greatly exaggerated, according to the House Majority Leader — despite speculation that she may alter or even withdraw her ambitious plan from consideration, Young tells SaintPetersBlog that her proposal will be workshopped at a meeting at the Capitol on Thursday, March 26. Young’s plan — consisting of three linked House bills, HB 1233, HB 1235 and HB 1237 — has been labeled by opponents as a straight expansion…

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Today on Context Florida: No Casinos, Scott’s threat, graduation rates and the Permanent Campaign

Published on March 6, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

Today on Context Florida: For decades, casino lobbyists have tried to turn Florida into Las Vegas, says No Casinos president John Sowinski. But gambling lobbyists are back again, this time pushing for the biggest expansion of gambling in Florida’s history. There is a reason why they are so desperate to move into Florida and why responsible legislators should once again turn them away. Gov. Rick Scott wrote a letter to President Obama this week. Daniel Tilson asks, “Isn’t that special?” Well,…

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

Published on March 2, 2015 in Top Headlines by Ryan Ray

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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Dana Young makes opening move on expanded gambling

Published on March 2, 2015 in Top Headlines by James Call

House Majority Leader Dana Young made the opening bid Monday on expanding gambling operations in Florida. The Gaming Control Act of 2015 provides for up too two destination resorts in Florida, a constitutional amendment to lift a moratorium on further expansion, decoupling of greyhound racing from other gaming opportunities and the reversion to the state of 12 dormant wagering permits. “This is going to be a very active discussion this session, said Young. “And I believe there are no right…

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No Casinos: Don’t reward Seminole Tribe threats on Compact renewal

House gaming legislation to be workshopped March 26

Today on Context Florida: No Casinos, Scott’s threat, graduation rates and the Permanent Campaign

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

Dana Young makes opening move on expanded gambling

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