No Casinos in Florida This Year

Unfortunately for residents of Florida it seems that this year won’t bring casino hotels to the state.

Florida’s house speaker and senate president has said that gambling issues are not a legislative priority this year.
House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, said that he wants to leave the issue of gambling expansion up to voters, “Unless we can do that, I don’t think you’ll see us take up gaming in the House.”
Rep. Jim Waldman, D-Coconut Creek, said that the statements from Weatherford and Senate President Don Gaetz are “not that much different from what they’ve been saying all along. You can’t make anything out of it.”
Waldman, who is president of the National Council of Legislators of Gaming States, said that Florida’s gambling laws are full of inconsistencies and need to be cleaned up. He went on to say that with medical marijuana on the ballot, which is likely to increase Democratic turnout at the polls, an amendment that would slow gambling could bring out more Republicans and increase Gov. Rick Scott’s chances of re-election.