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Did Issue 3 pass based upon employment promises?
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After 7 previous attempts, a bill proposing casino gambling finally passes in Ohio.
Issue 3, the amendment that would allow one casino in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus and Toledo, faced substantial moral opposition. The key to its success this year could have been based on employment promises.
The state holds double digit unemployment statistics. Issue 3 supporters relentlessly touted how the issue would bring 34,000 jobs the state if the 4 casinos were to open.
Employment opportunities in a down economy could have been the trump card angle supporters needed to finally get the amendment passed.
After all, employment promises is what led Cleveland NAACP Chapter President George Forbes to side with the issue.
Cavalier majority owner, Dan Gilbert is slated to open a casino in Cleveland and Cincinnati if the amendment passed. Issue 3 does not specify that jobs would go to Ohioans. However Gilbert promised to extend contracts to minority construction owners upon the bill's passage.
Time will only tell if that public promise as well as the overall promise of 19,000 jobs created during the initial investment and construction phase as well as 16,000 permanent jobs once the 4 casinos begin to operate will come to fruition.
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