Casino amendment ‘will be on the ballot,’ promoter says
By Rob Moritz
Arkansas News Bureau
LITTLE ROCK — A Texas businessman who has spearheaded more than one aborted effort to establish casinos in Arkansas vowed today to put a proposed constitutional amendment before voters next year.
“It will be on the ballot,” Michael Wasserman said a day after Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel certified a revised version of his ballot initiative to run casinos in seven Arkansas cities.
The proposal drew immediate opposition. The political arm of the conservative Family Council announced it would campaign against the measure if it gets on the 2012 general election ballot.
Wasserman, of Gainsville, Texas, said casinos would generate millions of dollars and provide jobs to help the state’s economy.