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Casino Beacon > Online Casinos > New Casino Bonuses > Bonus Archive 08 August 2008 Casino Petition Submitted To Ohio Secretary Of State MyOhioNow.com has submitted 800,000 signatures of registered Ohio voters to the office of the Ohio Secretary of State. To place an initiative on the ballot, a minimum of 402,275 registered Ohio voters are needed along with 5% of the registered voters in 44 counties. MyOhioNow.com collected approx. 800,000 signatures and met the requirements in 81 counties (out of a total of 88). Signatures were gathered from every county. It is up to the Secretary of State now to send the petitions to each designated county to validate the signatures. When this process has completed, the issue will be placed on a statewide ballot for the November 4th election. The ballot issue will be to approve a $600 million dollar destination resort/casino in Clinton County, Ohio with 30% of the revenues going to the 88 counties based on a per capita basis. The project will employ up to 5000 jobs along with thousands of jobs in the construction of the project. "This has been an exciting opportunity to reach out to Ohio voters in all 2088 counties. The response has been overwhelmingly favorable. We are very appreciative of the effort of hundreds of Ohioans who have helped us in this effort to place this issue on the November 4th ballot. Ohioans are excited for this positive economic news. The prospect of up to 5000 new jobs is a bright spot in a year in which we have faced so much financial adversity and challenges. We look forward to a positive and honest campaign to get the support of Ohio voters. We look towards our opposition to come from casinos in states that neighbor Ohio, as they have enjoyed the economic benefits from Ohioans for many years. When this issue passes, their free lunch will end," said Rick Lertzman, co-founder of MyOhioNow.com. Dr. Bradford A. Pressman, co-founder of MyOhioNow.com, said, "The voters of Ohio have spoken loud and clear. They want their voices heard and want to have the opportunity to vote on this issue on November 4th. Our petition effort has given us a unique opportunity to reach out to inform Ohio voters about the issue. Our message is clear and honest. Frankly, there are 38 states that currently have some form of Casino Gambling. Our neighbors, such as Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia are employing thousands of residents in their states and returning hundreds of millions of tax revenues from their casinos. It's time to keep those dollars within our state borders and attract tourism dollars back to Ohio. We look forward to spreading this positive message and will seek the approval of Ohio voters on November 4th." Mike Arno of Arno Political Consultants from California oversaw the petition signature collection. One of the largest companies that specialize in the gathering of signatures was surprised by the overwhelming support the collectors received during the process. Mr. Arno said, "In fact, in our many years in business, doing hundreds of these campaigns throughout the United States, we set the record for one week in the collection of signatures at 90,000. We were quite surprised at the strong support we have seen throughout Ohio for this issue." |
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