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Cordray approves referendum petition
LetOhioVote.org’s petition circulators will hit the streets of Ohio in a matter of days after Attorney General Richard Cordray on Monday, Oct. 5, approved their petition language, spokesman Carlo LoParo said.
LetOhioVote successfully waged a court battle for the right to put Gov. Ted Strickland’s slot machine plan to a referendum vote in November 2010. The group seeks to repeal the language in the state budget bill that would have put 17,500 slot machines at Ohio’s seven horse racetracks by May 2010 to generate $933 million for K-12 education.
Strickland has since pulled the plug on the plan and Senate President Bill Harris, R-Ashland, is now recommending that lawmakers repeal the slots language from the budget bill.
But until that’s done, LoParo said, LetOhioVote will push ahead on the referendum. They have until Dec. 20 to collect 241,366 valid signatures from registered voters.
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