Jacobs, Verschoore draft bill to patch glitch in Casino move
Local legislators have the draft of a bill that would allow the state gaming board to approve the Casino Rock Island moving, and could send it to committee as soon as next week.
State Rep. Pat Verschoore, D-Milan, state Sen. Mike Jacobs, D-East Moline, and Attorney General Lisa Madigan's staff wasted little time moving forward with the bill following a meeting Monday in Chicago.
The legislators and others met with the Attorney General after the release of a letter with an informal opinion that the gaming board didn't have the ability to grant permission for a casino to move.
The bill would allow any casino to move within five miles of its current docking location as long as it has the licensed municipality's permission, Rep. Verschoore said.
The legislators argued that the legislative intent of previous amendments gives the gaming board the power to approve casinos' relocation requests. They agreed to push a bill that would add the needed language for casinos to relocate.
"On first blush, it is simply amazing that a few word changes give us the authority we need," Sen. Jacobs said. "If her requirement is for us to jump over one more hurdle, we will jump over one more hurdle."
Whether one supports the move or not, and there are many valid arguments against it, the powers that be seem intent on making it happen. We'll see if amending a few words of a bill will prove to remove the last roadblock to the relocation plans.
posted by The Inside Dope @ 4/29/2005
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4 Comments:
Is it just me? HeadUsher, if you're a female, then you have a definite crush on Jacobs. If you're male, then you display an almost homoerotic adoration for Mike throughout your comments.
Everytime his name is mentioned, like clockwork you appear to heap praises on him. You'd think Jacobs was the second coming or something.
As you pointed out, Jacobs has been in operation for a relatively brief period. In that time he hasn't imploded or made any colossal blunders. But I'm not sure the time for over-the-top hero worship has arrived just yet.
But we do love ya and hope you continue to post, though maybe not as breathlessly about the object of your desire, Mike Jacobs. ;-)
After all, pretty soon you'll be known as the Head "Gusher", the way you gush over your guy.
You're so transparent. You're absolutely in love with "Young" Mike Jacobs, and your comments are like they're written by some PR hack on steroids. HA!
Exhibit A. The fact that you absolutely disingenously and transparently try to hype Jacobs events by lying and trying to pretend you don't know every single detail about these events.
Secondly, I hope you continue to post here. You often provide useful and interesting facts. Unfortunately, they're almost exclusively devoted to printing every conceivable negative about Mike Boland.
I just would wish you'd keep the hype level down to a little more credible level and perhaps lend your informed opinion to the issues raised here, as you have on occasion. (and which I appreciate.)
As to you being the only reader left, well, according to the little counter over on the right, there's a few thousand others and the daily visitor numbers have remained consistently high with no decline. But hey, what do I know?
I do note that once I got rid of all the goofy anonymous posters, that there are fewer comments. That was expected.
Unfortunately, there are many out there who either don't want to register in order to comment, don't know how to register, or who have tried but got mixed up somehow.
I'm sorry for the low number of commenters, as I'd love nothing more than to have thousands of them. But the unfortunate fact is that it's either this way or allowing everyone to post which leads to a few people really stinking up the joint.
This way is a much more pleasant and civilized.
But don't go anywhere Head Usher. We'll read your comments, even if we can almost predict what they're going to say before you say it.
Also, I don't see anyone complaining that Jacobs is too good at his job, do you? Or are you saying that promoting himself relentlessly is his job? In that case yes, people are complaining about what a fine job he's doing.
To his credit, he has found the time to actually do some things, though one wonders once you strip away the hype just how earthshaking they've been.
I know he's been working hard, and working hard at letting everyone know how hard he's working. (of course, with your help HeadUsher)
Juat want to throw this out there. Is the job of a politician to "move voters and get elected" as Head Usher suggests?
Or is there something else they should be focusing on as well?
Juat want to throw this out there. Is the job of a politician to "move voters and get elected" as Head Usher suggests?
Or is there something else they should be focusing on as well?
Do the voters of their districts elect politicians so that they can "move voters and get elected" again? Or do you think they might prefer the politicians do something more than that?
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