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Toledo Strip Clubs: Majority of Ohio voters favor casinos, Issue 3, poll says
October 26, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
But Robert Bell, 43, says casinos will increase problems such as crime and gambling addiction in Ohio. That was the No. 1 reason opponents gave for turning thumbs down to Issue 3.
The architect from Oxford, in Southwest Ohio, said he is against gambling in general and that Ohioans “don’t need more low-wage jobs.”
William Miller of Middleburg Heights is voting “no” because of what he witnessed as a youth in eastern Ohio.
“I was born and raised in East Liverpool, Ohio, directly across the river from the Mountaineer Casino in West Virginia. I saw the damaging effects Mountaineer had on the social fabric of our community, and I witnessed how the only economic development fostered by the casino took place on casino grounds — excepting, of course, the strip club across the street.”
See the full article from “Plain Dealer”