Vote No For Gambling

This upcoming Tuesday will provide some very interesting and significant elections. Obama himself has said the New Jersey governor's race is a referendum on his policies. It's Corzine, the Democrat, vs. Chrisite the Republican. Virginia has a race for the state house and district 23 in New York has an upstart Conservative running for a House seat. Columbus, Ohio has elections, too. I'm most concerned with Issue #3. It calls for 4 gambling casinos to be built in the state. One would be in Cleveland. Just what we need in that cesspool of a city is another reason for people with welfare money to go out and lose it. Cincinnati would be another gambling city. I don't know where the third would be located; maybe Youngstown. The fourth would be in Columbus. I hope it doesn't pass but polls say it'll be very close. I don't gamble. I have gambled but I'm not very good at it. Since I don't know how to play cards I would shy away from those tables. I don't drink anymore and it seems drinking and gambling go hand in hand.
Columbus has a beautiful downtown. Our major league hockey sports venue was selected the best in all the country. Across the street the Cleveland Indians AAA farm team plays. They were terrible last year but we led the country in attendance for minor league teams. Our city is a safe place to walk at night. It has beautiful restaurants, theaters and shops. My wife and I view Columbus and it's surrounding suburbs as the best kept secret in the United States. If gambling becomes a reality we'll see the same old same old; corruption, drugs, prostitution, loss of income for families who need the money and every other garbage negative that goes with crap tables and one armed bandits. And the reason for a pro vote? It's to create jobs and keep gambling money in the state. I've gone through this before when we were citizens of Iowa located on the Mississippi River. Guess what? The cities of Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa are still blighted. There was a significant increase in crime and the money made off gambling went to who knows. One of my co-workers took her lunch hour to stop in at the nearby gaming house every weekday. Smacks of something bigger, doesn't it? Maybe an addiction?
Gambling, it's a no win situation.
Vote No.