Could Amendment 3 Backfire?<\/strong><\/h2>\nIronically, the tribe championed a ballot initiative of their own back in 2018. At elections that year, Florida residents passed Amendment 3, which established that all casino gaming expansion must be approved by voters in a public ballot.<\/p>\n
The campaign was bankrolled by the Seminoles with the help of Disney. And despite the tribe\u2019s current advice not to sign petitions in general, it got the necessary signatures, and ultimately the votes, to become law.<\/p>\n
The tribe believed this would help safeguard their monopoly, because it would prevent the legislature from approving laws that benefited commercial gaming interests.<\/p>\n
But it also gave a bunch of \u201cinterfering out-of-staters\u201d an outside chance of gaining the kind of ground in Florida that the legislature has resisted for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
All-powerful Florida tribal gaming operator the Seminoles are plowing millions of dollars into a new political committee called \u201cStanding Up for Florida,\u201d Florida Politics reports. The tribe is hoping to sabotage efforts by out-of-state gaming companies that want to challenge its gambling monopolies via voter-led petitions. “Standing Up for Florida” has kicked off its campaign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":189532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Seminoles Strike Back Against Ballot Threats from LVS, DraftKings<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n