Sentences with phrase «gambling amendment at»

Finally, this common sense approach to locating these games at the established Racinos will not only make it easier for the legislature to pass the gambling amendment at two successive legislative secessions but it will make it infinitely easier to get it passed at the subsequent state referendum.

Members of the public met with elected officials and people on both sides of New York's casino gambling amendment at a community forum Monday night in Saratoga Springs.

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In the New York City suburbs, support for the amendment to expand gambling is strongest, at 52 % to 39 %.

In the New York City suburbs, support for the amendment to expand gambling is strongest, at 52 percent to 39 percent.

``... Most observers see this as a fictional crisis manufactured by gambling lobbyists who want you to re-convene so they can try to make one more run at a major expansion of gambling before the November elections, when Florida voters will likely approve Amendment 3,» he added.

At the same time, gambling opponents pointed to the wording of the casino amendment that highlighted the potential benefits of gambling, including an increase in economic development and school aid as a sign the administration was trying to sway voters with non-neutral language (an effort to halt the amendment as it appears on the ballot was thwarted by a state judge this month).

Growing and strengthening our middle class is vitally important, and I hope that these same types of agreements can be reached at facilities in other areas of the state after voters approve the casino gambling amendment in November,» said Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

In a further gamble, the director and screenwriter strive to reveal their subject by limiting their film's scope, more or less, to a few mere weeks at the end of Lincoln's first term, at a time when the overwhelmingly popular president resolved to take advantage of the lame duck Congress to pass the 13th Amendment.