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The Learn and Earn Campaign has stepped up their TV ads
as the slot machine opponents began airing their own anti-slot machines TV
advertisements. Ohio is currently divided because of Issue 3 which would
bring slot machines to the state, specifically to seven different racetracks
throughout the state, as a way to pay for higher education. The slot
machines would give a large percent of the revenue to the state to be used
for college scholarships so that more high school students can afford to o
to college.
As soon as the slot machines were first put on the ballot as Issue 3, the
Learn and Earn campaign began their television campaign to inform voters of
the benefits slot machines will bring to their children. And though the
opponents to the slot machines, “Vote No Casinos,” raised over $700,000 to
be used to counter the Learn and Earn’s television campaign, there are
doubts that their funding will adequately counter the $19.5 million in pro-
slot machines messages the proponents have been bombarding citizens with.
Though there is a substantial difference in the amount of funds spent on the
campaigns, the opposition group still believes their messages are important
and will affect the voting. According to David Zanotti, the co-chairmen of
the opposition group, "[I] feel very confident .... our message [about slot
machines] will get heard."
I guess the only way we will know which side successfully campaigned the the
hardest will come down to how the voters cast their votes on the slot
machines on November 7th. If the slot machines pass, then citizens can
prepare themselves for the addition of hundreds of slot machines over the
next couple of years.
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