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Arkansas Now Has a Lottery; but Legalized Casinos May Have to Wait A While

If you thought that the passage and start up of a state run lottery would open the floodgates to gambling in the great state of Arkansas (LOVE the Razorbacks…I go back to Frank Broyles)…. you were wrong.

At least for now.

A legislative proposal to offer casino gambling in seven counties in Arkansas — including Miller County — won’t be on the November ballot, according to a report in the Associated Press, “because the Texas businessman who is pushing the idea missed the deadline to file a petition with the Arkansas secretary of state’s office.”

How annoying is that?

A businessman named Michael Wasserman said in January that the approval of a state lottery by Arkansas voters had encouraged him to start a petition drive to place a casino gambling amendment on the ballot.

He needed to collect more than 77,000 signatures on the petition.

I don’t know if he did that. Maybe that was the cause of the delay.

Secretary of State office’s spokeswoman Sandra McGrew said Wasserman did not submit a petition by the July 2 deadline to make the November ballot.

Wasserman had proposed that Miller, Boone, Crittenden, Garland, Jefferson, Pulaski and Sebastian counties could have casino gambling, with the casinos operated by his company, Arkansas Hotels and Entertainment Inc.

My advice? Keep at it. Casino gambling is being legalized everywhere for one reason and one reason only. States need the money.

It will happen. Just like the lottery. It’s just a matter of time.