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Legal heavyweights square off on casino amendment

Opponents of the Nancy Todd Poker Palace constitutional amendment — still undergoing review for signature sufficiency by the secretary of state and still in the field for more signatures — earlier had contested the legality of placing the measure on the ballot for a variety of flaws in the ballot title and content.
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Nancy Todd casino amendment short on signatures UPDATE

Alex Reed of the secretary of state's office says the Nancy Todd Poker Palace constitutional amendment — to give exclusive casino licenses for four casinos to an enterprise backed by Branson, Mo., investors — is also short of signatures of registered voters.
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Challenge filed on casino amendment

I've talked some previously with Todd, the political consultant who's leading the casino drive for Branson, Mo., investors about this criticism.

Texas casino amendment won't qualify for ballot

Michael Wasserman, the Texas casino proposal who turned up with what he represented were sufficient signatures to qualify his constitutional amendment for an exclusive right to open seven casinos, won't make it to the November ballot.
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Nancy Todd says legislature could regulate her casinos

Nancy Todd met the initial signature threshold to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would grant four casino licenses to promoters of the amendment.

UPDATE: Casino campaign reports $195,000 support from Missouri investors

Nancy Todd alerted me that the group pushing a casino amendment initiative had filed a batch of papers with the state Ethics Commission today. They show a group of Branson, Mo., investors as the financial force behind the proposal.
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Nancy Todd still checking on casino spending

I received another brief response last night from Nancy Todd, who's leading a drive to qualify a constitutional amendment for the ballot to permit her to open four unregulated casinos in Arkansas.

Still no disclosure on backers of casino amendment campaign

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A casino proposal's obvious flaw

I wrote yesterday that Delaware North, owner of the Southland Park casino in West Memphis into which gamblers pour more than a billion a year into the slots, was financing a campaign to fight a couple of casino amendment campaigns, particularly a drive headed by Nancy Todd, a Las Vegas consultant and poker player, to give her exclusive right to operate four casinsos, in Pulaski Miller, Crittenden and Franklin counties.

Anti-casino mailing hits boxes UPDATE

Interesting. A friend today received a mailer urging people not to sign petitions being circulated by Nancy Todd to amend the Arkansas Constitution to allow her to open "poker palaces" and casinos in Pulaski, Miller, Crittenden and Franklin counties.
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