Tuesday • March 28, 1995
WISC Great Issues & WISC Political Forum Present
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Friday, April 7, 1995
7:00 p.m. Rudder Auditorium
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Page 6B • The Battalion
Louisiana riverboat casinos
lobby against local option bill
□ Some riverboat owners fear the loss
of their businesses.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s river
boat casinos are mounting an extensive lobbying
campaign to quash bills that would let voters de
cide whether to allow such gambling enterprises in
their communities.
The casino operators are encouraging their
workers, vendors and patrons to write or call their
legislators, while a statewide television and radio
ad campaign is touting riverboat casinos as “good
for Louisiana.”
In the legislative session that begins Monday,
Legislators will consider a raft of bills that could
road from the state capitol complex, said riverboat
casino employees are worried about their jobs.
Like other riverboat casinos around the state,
Casino Rouge is encouraging employees to write to
their legislators, Halicki said. The company mails
the letters out after copying them for its files, she
said. Casino Rouge also encourages patrons and
vendors to write.
Riverboats have created more than 15,000 new
jobs for the state and pumped hundreds of millions
of dollars into government coffers, she said.
“It would just seem ludicrous for elected officials
who voted for this to decide now to turn their backs
on all those new jobs and all that new tax rev
enue,” Halicki said.
In a letter to its suppliers and vendors, the
"The winds of change are blowing. Politicians
don't like to walk into the wind. They like to walk
with it and the wind's blowing in the direction of
local option."
— Randy Ewing,
Louisiana state senator
"It would just seem ludicrous for elected officials
who voted for this to decide now to turn their
backs on all those new jobs and all that new tax
revenue."
— Carole Halicki,
Casino Rouge marketing manager
torpedo riverboat casinos, video poker and the New
Orleans land casino. The measures include local
option bills that would put gambling issues to a
public vote.
State Sen. Randy Ewing, D-Quitman, said he
expects local option bills to be approved this year
— especially since the public’s mood appears to
have soured on gambling and because legislators
are up for re-election.
Several different public opinion polls in recent
months have indicated that voters would get rid
of riverboat casinos and video poker if given a
chance.
“The winds of change are blowing,” Ewing said.
“Politicians don’t like to walk into the wind. They
like to walk with it and the wind’s blowing in the
direction of local option.”
Casino Rouge Marketing Manager Carole Halic
ki, whose firm’s gambling boat docks across the
Bossier City-based Horseshoe Casino riverboat
warned that local option elections could be the
death knell for some Louisiana casino boats and
devastating to the Louisiana economy.
“To insure that we both enjoy a long and pros
perous relationship, we are asking that you write
or call your state representative and senator to in
dicate to them the positive benefits that riverboats
bring to the Louisiana economy,” the Horseshoe’s
George Nattin wrote.
Halicki and Julie Fusilier, executive director of
the Riverboat Casino Association of Louisiana, con
tend that the 1991 riverboat gambling law gave vot
ers an opportunity to keep riverboat casinos out.
The 1991 law allowed communities to “opt out”
if 25 percent of the voters signed petitions saying
they did not want riverboat gambling. That provi
sion expired in 1992, long before the first casino
boat opened.
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