Cleveland Adult Entertainment: Casino supporters smash spending record
And the Ohio Jobs and Growth Committee still has more than $1 million in the bank as it awaits legislation paving the way for casinos in Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo.
Ironically, the $59 million battle to bring casino gambling to Ohio was primarily funded by gambling interests on both sides of the controversial measure.
For example, of the $2.4 million raised by a group called Families Against Issue 3, all but $4,900 came from MTR Gaming Group, Jacobs Entertainment and Northfield Park, a horse track near Cleveland.
The “Families” group was co-chaired by former Ohio State University quarterback Art Schlichter, who battled gambling woes for years himself, and his mother. It aired easily the most bombastic ads of the campaign, saying that “casinos kill families and communitiesbreeding bankruptcy, broken homes and suicide. And with Las Vegas casinos come rampant crime, drugs and prostitution“