supposed to be a rather simple process<\/a>. Each of the seven Arkansas Racing Commission members gave the casino proposals a score of 0-100. The project with the highest tally was to receive the gaming license.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nHowever, the Commission found bias in Commissioner Butch Rice’s grading of Gulfside a perfect 100, while awarding the Legends plan only 29 points. Rice’s scoring single-handedly tipped the score in Gulfside’s favor, 637-572.<\/p>\n
Despite Rice denying he had any bias, ARC rejected his scoring, which resulted in a tally favoring Legends. State attorneys advised the commission to remove itself from the matter, and Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s office is now intervening.<\/p>\n
Petition Denied<\/b><\/h2>\n
In related Arkansas casino news, this week the state secretary’s office rejected nearly 100,000 signatures submitted by a campaign seeking to legalize as many as 16 new commercial casinos.<\/p>\n
Arkansas Wins 2020 says it has been notified by the secretary’s office that the signatures were rejected based on “allegedly failing to certify that canvassers had passed two separate background checks.”<\/p>\n
The campaign says it’s filing a Petition for Review with the Arkansas Supreme Court “to address what we believe is an erroneous declaration of insufficiency,”<\/strong> said campaign spokesman Taylor Riddle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected a lower court judge’s decision that the Cherokee Business Nation — bidding for the lone casino license in Pope County under the entity Legends Resort and Casino, LLC — is not a qualified casino applicant in the state. Earlier this month, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox ruled that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":141915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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