November 2009 Election Results
The polls closed at 7:30pm, and the results have been tallied for today’s election.
Issue 1 (Veterans’ Compensation) has passed
Issue 2 (Livestock Care) has passed
Issue 3 (Casinos) has passed
Issue 4 (Children Services Levy) has passed
The three candidates elected to Columbus City Council are A. Troy Miller, Eileen Paley and Priscilla Tyson.
Full results can be found at vote.franklincountyohio.gov.
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November 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Sad…
November 4th, 2009 at 12:04 am
I feel like a prick voting against #1 but just don’t see the need for spending on something that won’t benefit the larger community. All love and respect to any veterans we have here as we approach Veteran’s Day.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:29 am
Yeah, issue 3… I still can’t believe that the majority of Ohio voters are that damn dumb. I guess I don’t want to believe it.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Check out this map from the dispatch:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/multimedia/graphics/2009/09_election.html
Most of the votes came from the voters in the Cincinnati and Cleveland area. I listened to 700WLW (Cinci) and they were going on about how much these Casino’s are going to attract people to Cinci and Cleveland (Cbus was not mentioned). When I was listening they were also talking to what I assume was a supporter of the Streetcar (apparently the issue there went pro-streetcar) and they said how this Streetcar will be great to link all the different entertainment venues with the Casino and create a walkable urban center once again.
Perhaps this will help out with our streetcar issue at least. On a different note is there any Architectural Review Board or something similar that has a say as to what the Casino will look like? I assume the Arena District does but I’m not sure, or if this Casino would be governed by it.
November 4th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Poor livestock.. issue 2 passed
November 4th, 2009 at 1:57 am
Good to see critical thinking put out of its misery.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:05 am
I’m all for casinos being built in CLE and Cincy, if that’s what people in these cities really want. I have no problem with this. And I consider Toledo as part of Detroit Metro anyway, where casinos already exist on the Michigan side, so I don’t see any big deal about it there.
I DO, however, see a casino being a MAJOR issue here in Columbus. I really think it will run contrary to the image, culture and atmosphere that people here have been trying with a great deal of success to craft for this city. And unlike Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo, people here voted it DOWN. Mayor Coleman also stood against a casino being built here and says he wants the state legislature to intervene and give the cities more power to regulate them:
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Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman, who opposed Issue 3, said lawmakers should move quickly to put a new amendment on the ballot to raise the tax rate, put the casino licenses up to bid and let cities regulate their locations and operations.
“If this passes, my hope is that the legislature will step in,” Coleman said last night.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/11/04/issue3.html
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Can we stop the Columbus location from being built? Or at least force it out to the fringes of Central Ohio? Any ideas?
November 4th, 2009 at 2:22 am
Wonderful news! What a boon for the arena district businesses and residents of Buggyworks, North Bank Condos and Burnham Square. I only wish Columbus would have been assigned the Cleveland Cav’s owner who is reportedly spending $600 million in Cleveland on the casino as opposed to only $250 million by Penn National in Columbus.
http://www.cleveland.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/11/cleveland_to_get_its_casino_vo.html
November 4th, 2009 at 7:25 am
Glad to see we are comfortable being a place where the poor can piss their money away, and livestock can stand in their own shit and piss all day. Ohio! Let’s fuck up what we still have going for us.
November 4th, 2009 at 7:28 am
Ohio: Our government lets you make up your own rules!
November 4th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Hot damn! I wonder if the unemployment levels influenced it. I know it influenced me!
November 4th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Make sure to let your elected officials know how you feel about Issue 2. I know Strickland supported it.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I’ve never felt this strongly against any political issue as I do about this stupid casino. If Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Toledo and their big union support for this crap think that these casinos are going to magically return their shithole cities back to their glory years, let them have them. Central Ohio voted it down substantially.
Now, instead of attracting urban residents, families, sports fans, young professionals, businesses, and the like to the arena district we will instead get the poor, the homeless, the criminally inclined, and the addicted. Plus we get a cheesy looking building to go with it and a crappy contract for the state. What a deal!
Furthermore, if you look at the results by precinct on the map of the Franklin County voting website above (it was there last night, but not this morning), you will see that all the majority yes precincts are in the poorest areas:
- The near northeast side along Cleveland ave. east of 71 up to morse
- The Miller-Kelton area south of 70
- The far south area below Merion village
- Southwest areas around the Hilltop
Based on this, one would presume that these people would be the ones frequenting the casino the most; the ones that most definitely should not be gambling. An earlier study by the Dispatch that showed increased lottery sales in poorer zip codes confirms this.
If they want a casino so bad, fine let’s compromise. You’ll get your casino, just not in the Arena District. We’ll put it on Joyce ave. in Linden out of sight, out of mind. Then they won’t even have to get on the bus and come downtown to piss their welfare checks away.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Why am I not surprised our “honorable” mayor wants to increase the tax rate on gross revenues of these casinos? He’s probably already trying to figure out how he can waste more tax dollars.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:27 am
I don’t understand why many of you are opposed to a casino that might actually attract people to the area. Yet, you do support a rail system that most likely will be ignored and go unused.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:36 am
NEOBuckeye Says: Can we stop the Columbus location from being built? Or at least force it out to the fringes of Central Ohio? Any ideas?
I would guess NO:
From Section (7) of the amendment - Each of the four casino facilities shall be subject to all applicable state laws and local ordinances related to health and building codes, or any related requirements and provisions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no local zoning, land use laws, subdivision regulations or similar provisions shall prohibit the development or operation of the four casino facilities set forth herein, provided that no casino facility shall be located in a district zoned exclusively residential as of January 1, 2009.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Uh-huh. And your basis to judge the rail system is…?
The problem most of us have isn’t the casino or gambling. It’s the implementation. I think you would find most of us in favor of a general provision allowing legalized gambling, a free market system for the licensing and a local option to determine where these go.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Personally, I don’t think the Casino is going to be the end of the world in Columbus. I just think we could have done much much better than what we’re going to be getting. I don’t think we had to settle for something second-rate, and that’s what we’re getting.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Isn’t it funny that those who traditionally vote against tax levies have voted to gamble away their money at a 33% tax rate?
November 4th, 2009 at 9:41 am
O that’s just progress. We’re enlightened now that we have given people a choice. Hallelujah Ohio has come out of the oppressed dark ages we once found ourselves in!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:42 am
^And have chosen to give away $200 million to veterans?
I wonder if we could bust a dam upstream and flood that area? Wetlands would be much better for our city than a casino.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Does this automatically become law? I’m starting to think any well funded organization can write a self-serving confusing referendum, shower people with misleading advertising, and get their own Ohio constitutional amendment totally bypassing govt. WTF?!?
November 4th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Hey chicken littles, the sky is not falling.
So so happy those doing all the fear-mongering about casinos will have to find something new to do with their time.
Let’s examine why this failed in Columbus:
1. No central Ohio leader dared to come out against The Dispatch.
2. The Dispatch/Wolfe was/is 100 percent opposed to this issue.
Anyway, I look forward to seeing all the “addicted” and “homeless” and “people pissing away all their money.” And by all I mean “zero.”
It’s a money issue. The churches don’t want people gambling because they fear they won’t be able to give us much money to the church.
Even if you’re anti-Columbus casino, take solace in TruthPAC’s loss .. a West Virginia GAMBLING outfit that spent $5-6 million expounding the dangers of GAMBLING.
Geesh. Bring on the casinos!
November 4th, 2009 at 9:49 am
I was not for the casino. Not like this it’s a shame.
However,
“If they want a casino so bad, fine let’s compromise. You’ll get your casino, just not in the Arena District. We’ll put it on Joyce ave. in Linden out of sight, out of mind. Then they won’t even have to get on the bus and come downtown to piss their welfare checks away”
mstimple You should Go back to the dispatch forum.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Charlie Says: I’m starting to think any well funded organization can write a self-serving confusing referendum, shower people with misleading advertising, and get their own Ohio constitutional amendment totally bypassing govt.
Well, they did have to spend a few million and several years in the process. :P