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    Casino backers want your signatures

    The Dispatch wrote Casino backers want your signatures

    Posted by James Nash, Statehouse reporter on March 4, 2008

    The casino group, MyOhioNow.com, needs more than 400,000 signatures by August to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would authorize a $600 million casino resort off Interstate 71 midway between Columbus and Cincinnati.

    MyOhioNow.com, which is led by Cleveland-area investors Rick A. Lertzman and Brad A. Pressman, has hired a petition firm to round up signatures across Ohio’s 88 counties. Lertzman and Pressman said their 1,100 petition circulators today represents one of the largest signature-gathering efforts in Ohio history.

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