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From The Ruins of Detroit
http://www.teawithlemon.com/2010/07/ruins-of-detroit.html
Group challenging proposal for new casinos
- By Dustin Blitchok
For the Daily Tribune - Posted: 08/10/12
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A group backed in part by several existing Michigan casinos is challenging a constitutional amendment headed for the November ballot that would green-light eight new casinos in Michigan.
“It seems to me there are a lot of people trying to buy their way into the state Constitution,” said John Truscott, president of the public relations firm Truscott Rossman.
Truscott is representing Protect MI Vote, a group that appeared before the Michigan Court of Appeals this week in an effort to have Citizens for More Michigan Jobs’ proposal removed from the Nov. 6 ballot by the Secretary of State, arguing the proposal is unconstitutional.
Citizens for More Michigan Jobs submitted more than a half-million petition signatures for the November ballot to the Secretary of State in late June.
Protect MI Vote’s attorneys have asked for a decision from the Court of Appeals by Aug. 15.
James Nye, a spokesman for Protect MI Vote, said a 2004 constitutional amendment approved by Michigan voters that requires both statewide and local voter approval for new casinos “would be completely stricken if this proposal passes.”
The backers of the proposed constitutional amendment disagree.
“There is still a local vote,” said Emily Gerkin Palsrok, spokeswoman for Citizens for More Michigan Jobs. She said the November vote represents the statewide and local votes happening at once. “If the residents of Pontiac do not want the casino at the Silverdome or in their community, then they can exercise that right when they vote in November.”
If the ballot question receives statewide approval, Palsrok said the group would “look at each of the eight (proposed casino) locations and how the vote played out there. If the city of Pontiac said “no,” then their location doesn’t happen.”
The proposed amendment would insert the locations of eight new casinos into the state Constitution, to be located at the Pontiac Silverdome; Detroit; Clam Lake Township, near Cadillac; DeWitt Township, near Lansing; Clinton Township, Birch Run Township, Grand Rapids and Romulus.
http://www.dailytribune.com/article/20120810/NEWS01/120819925/group-challenging-proposal-for-new-casinos
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