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Survey Says: 27,000 Philadelphians Give Casinos The Gas Face

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Representatives of Casino-Free Philadelphia announced at a mid-morning press conference last Wednesday that they had enough signatures to require City Council to vote on a ballot question designed to keep Las Vegas size casinos out of residential neighborhoods and to do so on terms that favor residents.

In late January, over 300 riverfront residents and longshoremen fanned out across the City asking their fellow Philadelphians to support a ballot question that would put a buffer zone between residential neighborhoods and casinos. Led by Casino-Free Philadelphia, in just 20 days the volunteers got 27,000 registered voters to sign a petition to change the City’s Home Rule Charter.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 at 3:08 pm.

  • C. The Impaler

    Dunno, Moss-Coane’s Radio Times this week had two guys from the Inky reporting on their year long canvassing of city residents on socio-economic and quality of life issues. The casinos got like the last 90 seconds of the program and outside of the affected neighborhoods, it wasn’t an issue really on most people’s radar. I may be overly pessimistic but even if what amounts to a city public opinion poll gets on the ballot, I’m thinking the riverfront neighborhoods are isolated and conquered.