WASHINGTON (AP) - A bit of deja-vu as promoters are launching a new effort to put a casino in D.C.
According to The Washington Post, a gambling promoter from the U.S. Virgin Islands wants to put as many as 35-hundred slot machines at a site in Southeast Washington. Shawn Scott hopes to get the issue before voters this November.
Under his latest proposal, Scott would build a gambling hall with as many as 35-hundred slot machines at Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard and Good Hope Road in Southeast. As in the past, Scott is proposing to split his profits with the city, paying a quarter of his earnings in taxes and keeping 75 percent of an operation that could bring in as much at $765 million a year.
Two years ago, there was an effort to build a casino in Northeast D.C. It was booted off the ballot after city election officials found numerous problems with the petitions.
The Washington Post erroneously reported in Monday's editions that Scott owes more than $622,000 in fines for violating election laws during that effort. The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics says it was the committee behind the initiative which was fined.
Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press.
According to The Washington Post, a gambling promoter from the U.S. Virgin Islands wants to put as many as 35-hundred slot machines at a site in Southeast Washington. Shawn Scott hopes to get the issue before voters this November.
Under his latest proposal, Scott would build a gambling hall with as many as 35-hundred slot machines at Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard and Good Hope Road in Southeast. As in the past, Scott is proposing to split his profits with the city, paying a quarter of his earnings in taxes and keeping 75 percent of an operation that could bring in as much at $765 million a year.
Two years ago, there was an effort to build a casino in Northeast D.C. It was booted off the ballot after city election officials found numerous problems with the petitions.
The Washington Post erroneously reported in Monday's editions that Scott owes more than $622,000 in fines for violating election laws during that effort. The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics says it was the committee behind the initiative which was fined.
Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press.