Casinos now have co-equality with the executive, legislative and judicial branches of Ohio government. All of them, creatures of our Ohio constitution. Creatures dragging slime as they slither through the weeds.
As Ohio's new Fourth Estate, professional gamblers have replaced newspapers and broadcast media.
Soon, and my bet is within months, casino interests will join state government in trolling for greenbacks from Ohioans’ wallets.
Ohio has a new fourth branch of government.
Proposed redesign for The Great Seal of the State of Ohio.
A new casino won’t be built in a few months time but the gamblers can outfit a couple mobile homes with roulette tables and slot machines in short order.
I think the gamblers haven’t rolled the mobile home casinos onto their vacant land because they are having trouble attaching the neon lights. Lights always slow down gamblers as they search for the shadows.
The press was the fourth estate for many years. Journalists informed us about crime, corruption, social needs and sports.
But the newspapers are dying across the land. The Inquirer in Philadelphia, the Philadelpha Daily News, The Tribune Company and its Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun-Times are the major papers that are in bankruptcy this year. Can Ohio newspapers be far from the front steps of the bankruptcy courts?
No longer will the country have a vigilant press. Slot machines, cards, dice and roulette tables will be our Fourth Estate, not informing us, but making new paupers and new criminals. Tragedies that we will witness on the streets unmediated by the press.
Extra. Extra. Read all about it.
Dice. Come baby.
We now add the Honorable Gambler to the list of our public officials: the Honorable Senator, the Honorable Representative, the Honorable Governor and Mr. Chief Justice. The Honorable Croupier. The Honorable Dealer.
Dice and cash are the new Ohio government.
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