{"id":6908,"date":"2014-01-30T17:41:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/01\/30\/destination-casinos-in-florida-an-unlikely-prospect-this-year\/"},"modified":"2014-01-30T17:41:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T17:41:21","slug":"destination-casinos-in-florida-an-unlikely-prospect-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/01\/30\/destination-casinos-in-florida-an-unlikely-prospect-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Destination casinos in Florida an unlikely prospect this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nShaun Bevan<br \/>\n\tReporter-<br \/>\n\tSouth Florida Business Journal<\/p>\n<p>\tThe prospect of a major overhaul of Florida\u2019s tangled web of gambling laws or the approval of Las Vegas-style casinos in the 2014 legislative session faces growing odds despite promises from GOP legislative leaders as late as last fall that the gambling issue was a priority.<br \/>\n\tCENTERPIECE: The race is on for high-stakes casino gambling in Florida<br \/>\n\tHouse Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, and Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, appeared ready Wednesday to punt on the gambling issue to their successors and ignored gambling in their list of legislative priorities presented to editors and reporters at The Associated Press\u2019s annual pre-session gathering in the Capitol.<br \/>\n\tWhile acknowledging that Florida gambling law has \u201cmore loopholes than I could count,\u201d Weatherford specifically scuttled the possibility that his chamber will act without an accompanying constitutional amendment proposal letting voters weigh in on any possible expansion, an idea first reported by The News Service of Florida last year.<br \/>\n\tRELATED CONTENT: Dania Jai-Alai hiring hundreds as casino nears completion &#8211; slideshow<br \/>\n\t\u201cUnless we can do that, I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll see us take up gaming in the House,\u201d Weatherford told reporters.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaun Bevan Reporter- South Florida Business Journal The prospect of a major overhaul of Florida\u2019s tangled web of gambling laws or the approval of Las Vegas-style casinos in the 2014 legislative session faces growing odds despite promises from GOP legislative&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}