City leaders plan push for casino option here
By Joe Wessels
Post contributor
Two Cincinnati leaders will unveil an initiative Monday that they hope will get the city back into the mix for casino gambling in Ohio.
A majority of Cincinnati City Council - led by Vice Mayor Jim Tarbell and Member Leslie Ghiz - plan to introduce a resolution Monday calling for the state to include the city in an upcoming ballot referendum on legalizing casino style gambling.
The measure, to be introduced at Monday's finance committee meeting, demands that ballot language be amended to include Cincinnati for consideration for a casino.
The resolution proposes a parking lot at Broadway Commons, which Tarbell unsuccessfully pushed in the late 1990s as the site for the Reds' new ballpark, as the locale for a Cincinnati casino. |
But I could never tell them I had any interest in a casino though, it's against their religion.
