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Opposition to casino in Portland, Oregon
- 12/27/06 - Portland casino promoters won't
release names of financial backers - Good For Oregon Committee
to push measures which would repeal Oregon’s ban on non-tribal casinos
and allow a casino at the site of the former Multnomah Greyhound Park.
If voters approve the measures, gaming operations could begin as soon
as Aug. 1, 2009.
- 11/29/07 - Portland casino in the works
- The promoters filed three prospective initiatives last week. One
would change the state constitution, which now bans casinos, to allow
one commercial casino if authorized by the people through an initiative.
- 6/19/06 - Push
to build non-tribal casino in Gresham postponed
- The push to build a non-tribal casino in the Gresham area is on
hold.
Backers of the proposal announced Monday that they will wait until 2008
to put the issue before voters.
The entrepreneurs who want to build the casino at the site of the old
Multnomah Kennel Club said they ran out of time to gather enough
signatures to place the issue on the november ballot.
"We are very pleased with the accomplishments of this campaign. The
Attorney General and the Oregon Supreme Court approved our measures. We
will capitalize on these historic rulings and re-file the measures for
the 2008 general election," said Matt Rossman, co-chief petitioner.
The petitioners say the casino would create more than 10,000 new
jobs.
- 06/09/06 - Supreme
Court approves casino initiative - Ballot measures seeking to turn
the defunct Multnomah Kennel Club into a casino have been approved by
the Oregon Supreme Court, supporters said Thursday.
- 05/23/06 - Casino
plan still hung up - Supporters
of the state’s first nontribal casino must now jump a new hurdle to
qualify their proposal for the November general election. The
titles of their two ballot measures to build a casino in Wood Village
were challenged before the Oregon Supreme Court last week. The appeal
could drag on into early June, giving supporters less than a month to
collect slightly more than 100,000 voter signatures for the Oregon
constitutional amendment they need to build the casino. The supporters
must also collect slightly more than 75,000 signatures to site the
casino at the former Multnomah Kennel Club dog racing track. “It’s
going to be very tight, but we’re still hopeful the Supreme
Court will approve the titles in time for us to make it,” said Matt
Rossman, a Lake Oswego lawyer who is sponsoring the measures with his
neighbor, financial consultant Bruce Studer. The appeal was
filed by the chiefs of the Siletz, Coquille and Klamath Indian tribes.
The Siletz and Coquille tribes already operate casinos on reservation
lands, and the Klamath tribe recently applied to build one on
nonreservation land near Wilsonville.
(5/23/06, PDX Update, Portland
Tribune)
- 05/12/06 - Private casino's a bad bet for
all - Matthew Rossman and
Bruce Studer propose to build one of the nation’s largest casinos on
the site of the former Multnomah Greyhound Park in Wood Village
- 05/09/06 - Oregon
casino developers want to change state constitution - The Oregon
Constitution currently prohibits nontribal casinos in the
state. Last week the Oregon secretary of state’s office approved titles
for the three ballot measures submitted by Studer and Rossman that
would amend the Constitution and direct the Legislature to authorize a
casino at the closed dog track.
- 04/08/05 - Mayor and governor want gambling
to stop short of city limits - Casino
encroachment on Portland doesn’t come just
from Cascade Locks. The Cowlitz tribe wants to build a casino at Exit
16 on Interstate 5 in northern Clark County, 25 miles from downtown.
And the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, operators of Spirit
Mountain, Oregon’s largest casino and its top tourist destination, is
exploring a casino-hotel-racetrack complex at Portland Meadows.
“You have to have a community that’s willing,”
said MardiLyn Saathoff, Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s general counsel. “We’re
not going to negotiate with a tribe that doesn’t have that.”
- 03/24/06 - Oregon casino ballot measure
rejected - The state rejected a package of ballot measures
Thursday that could
have allowed construction of the state's first non-Indian casino.
The two Lake Oswego entrepreneurs backing the project, proposed for
east Multnomah County, said they would rewrite the measures and try to
qualify them for the November ballot. But critics said they doubt
whether financial consultant Bruce
Studer and attorney Matthew Rossman have enough time to get any
casino measures before voters this year.
- 01/15/05 - Pair seek OK for huge casino
near Portland - Two Lake Oswego men want a state constitutional
amendment so
they can build Oregon's first such off-reservation complex.
(1/15/05,
The Oregonian)
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