Now the bars and restaurants want to use the governor's strategy for using the lottery to expand gambling to again plug in slots.Īnd they see an opening for their idea now that the legislature is considering a proposal, which does not yet include them, brought by the horse-racing industry to allow 14,000 slot machines at Ohio's seven race tracks. Instead, last August Strickland gave the liquor establishments Keno, a less-popular gambling game run by the Ohio Lottery. Ted Strickland deemed them more like games of chance than games of skill and thus a form of illegal gambling. Two years ago business at Ohio liquor establishments thrived on table-top slot machines, with fun names such as Tic-Tac-Fruit, until Gov. Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press Groups representing Ohio bars and restaurants see an opportunity for the idea to install slot machines legally in establishments.ĬOLUMBUS - Groups representing Ohio's bars and restaurants want to install slot machines, only this time they want them there legally and with the governor's blessing.
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