February
2004 Online Casinos News
‘No' votes
stall governor's gambling bill
TOPEKA—Gov. Kathleen Sebelius'
long-awaited gambling bill ran into a
temporary obstacle Tuesday when it
arrived in a Senate committee.
Plans had been for the Senate Federal
and State Affairs Committee to introduce
the measure and have it returned to the
committee for hearings later in the
week.
However, when the committee chairman,
Sen. Pete Brungardt, a Salina
Republican, looked around, about all he
saw were “no” votes. He decided to wait
for another day when there would be
enough favorable votes on hand to
introduce the bill.
Details of the expanded gaming
measure, weeks in the drafting, were
outlined to panel members by Matthew
All, the governor's chief counsel and
gaming specialist.
“For too long,” he said, “Kansans
have taken their gaming dollars to
Missouri, Iowa and elsewhere because we
have had too few options here at home.
It is time to keep those dollars here in
Kansas and put them to work for us.”
He said the governor's plan isn't
designed to provide new gambling for
gambling's sake but rather to create
jobs, encourage investment and attract
tourists. The plan, which follows
recommendations made by the governor's
gaming committee, calls for a maximum of
five destination casinos, video lottery
terminals at the five state-licensed
racetracks and as many as five video
lottery terminals in each of the class A
private clubs operated by fraternal and
veterans' organizations across the
state.
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