One Casino and Resort lost its bid during last month’s election to be Virginia ‘s fifth and final retail casino. Exactly 1,493 votes against the Richmond ballot measure separated the proposed “nation’s only Black-owned casino” from its developers’ $563 million construction plans . Perhaps because of that narrow loss, project proponents are reportedly considering another Richmond ballot measure that could see the casino approved.
On Dec. 2, the Richmond Times-Dispatch first reported that Richmond City Councilwoman Reva Trammell was circulating a petition to put One Casino on an upcoming ballot. Trammell didn’t return Online Poker Report ‘s request for comment yesterday.
Also in that article, the newspaper recounted tales from voters saying they received text messages. These linked to an online survey, which asked if they voted for the casino. On Dec. 11, WRIC reported that the survey also wanted to know “how they voted up and down the ballot.” WRIC noted that online survey no longer existed as of Dec. 11, and no one answered the TV news channel’s texts or calls to the SMS survey sender. One Casino would have been a first in the US
OPR asked about the survey and ballot measure plans and received this response yesterday from the casino project’s former spokesman, Mark B. Hubbard: “I have forwarded your inquiry to Urban One. They have taken their communications back in-house since the election.” Election Day was on Nov. 2. Until that date, Hubbard – who is primarily the senior vice president of advocacy for McGuireWoods Consulting in Richmond – was working on the project for One Casino’s operator, RVA Entertainment Holdings. RVA is a subsidiary of Urban One, a media company focused on Black culture. It touted its proposal as America’s first casino under Black ownership.
The OneCasinoResort.com site RVA used to inform Richmond residents about the proposed casino still lists Hubbard as the spokesman.
US online gambling proponents believe Virginia is laying the groundwork for its own online casinos . ‘Culture War’ drove Republicans into statewide offices
Richmond voters overwhelmingly chose Democrats on Nov. 2.
Statewide, on the other hand, Virginians picked Republicans in what many […]
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