While the Legislature is out of the Statehouse for its Spring Break, let’s take a little spin at the roulette wheel.
There’s a game of chance going on in the governor’s office, and it will mean jobs, entertainment and state tax revenues, or…not.
Spin the wheel, and the governor either signs—or doesn’t sign or allows to become law without his signature—a bill that would allow someone with about $55.5 million in cash and chips to build a casino in either Crawford or Cherokee counties in southeast Kansas.
The area—which has seen across-the-state-line casinos sprout like crabgrass in Oklahoma—needs some economic development, and a casino sure is one.
It’s probably not odd that casinos don’t make it into most of the governor’s eco-devo speeches, or jobs creation speeches or cut-income-taxes speeches.
This is eco-devo with a little moral/social sandbag of gambling riding on it.