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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.
Sad…
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.
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.
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.
Poor livestock.. issue 2 passed
Good to see critical thinking put out of its misery.
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?
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
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.
Ohio: Our government lets you make up your own rules!
Hot damn! I wonder if the unemployment levels influenced it. I know it influenced me!
Make sure to let your elected officials know how you feel about Issue 2. I know Strickland supported it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Isn’t it funny that those who traditionally vote against tax levies have voted to gamble away their money at a 33% tax rate?
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!