Looks like anywhere along the silver line may be considered as potential site for a casino, including Arlington and Falls Church. I’m largely opposed to a casino in NoVA but I could see them picking someplace like Rosalyn or Ballston.

https://patch.com/virginia/herndon/s/ivc4h/casino-near-arlington-metro-station-should-be-studied-chamber-blog?utm_source=alert-breakingnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert&user_email=d3a0c6c6cd7d8950d5e1b6c80a0f75ca7bd8bba760903b3225276658c9eaf6e2&user_email_md5=385fcd1120b373837d9b5c2d29e75bb6&lctg=62d9b991d17907a86c0d419c

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the intention that this casino will be financed the same way as the arena in Potomac Yard?

In other words, will Virginia taxpayers be on the ok if the promised returns don’t happen?

No. This casino would be financed primarily by a Saudi Arabia investor. The casino owners would retain 82% of first $200 million in gambling receipts, 77% of the gambling receipts between $200 million and $400 million, and 62% of the gambling receipts above $400 million.

Of the remaining gambling receipts, the State Treasury would get 30% of the 38% and Fairfax County would get 8% of the 38%.

Do you have a link about the Saudi investment?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a farce. The money won’t be seen by residents. I don’t care where the propose building in Fairfax County, I do not support it. It is not the kind of business I or my friends anticipated.

It will be like the lottery. “Do it for the kiddies! Do it for schools.” Well, all that lottery money goes into a general fund that doesn’t 100% go to schools like they want people to think.

Isn’t enough that we have phone, drug and other addiction issues? Do we have add casino gambling to the mix????

This. It would do anything but benefit schools in Fairfax. Louise Lucas might siphon off a few dollars for some school in Portsmouth, but that’s about it.

Portsmouth actually needs the money, have you seen their schools?

If Fairfax is so desperate that they are trying to siphon off gamblers from PG county and Portsmouth, where the money is really needed, then something really must be wrong.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the intention that this casino will be financed the same way as the arena in Potomac Yard?

In other words, will Virginia taxpayers be on the ok if the promised returns don’t happen?

No. This casino would be financed primarily by a Saudi Arabia investor. The casino owners would retain 82% of first $200 million in gambling receipts, 77% of the gambling receipts between $200 million and $400 million, and 62% of the gambling receipts above $400 million.

Of the remaining gambling receipts, the State Treasury would get 30% of the 38% and Fairfax County would get 8% of the 38%.

Ahhh. The fleecing of Americans.

Anonymous wrote:Lucas, as chair of the Senate Finance Committee, will have a substantial say on if the legalization occurs.

Lucas’ campaign has received more than $250,000 from casino owners and casino interests in the last five years according to campaign finance reports compiled by the Virginia Public Access Project.

In the last year, she has received a combined $105,000 from Va Operators for Skill and Pac-O-Matic the manufacturers of the Queen of Virginia Skill Games.
https://news.yahoo.com/state-sen-lucas-explains-why-040532738.html

She really disgusts me. It’s like she flaunts her corruption because it connotes a certain degree of power to get bought.

Anonymous wrote:Is the intention that this casino will be financed the same way as the arena in Potomac Yard?

In other words, will Virginia taxpayers be on the ok if the promised returns don’t happen?

No. This casino would be financed primarily by a Saudi Arabia investor. The casino owners would retain 82% of first $200 million in gambling receipts, 77% of the gambling receipts between $200 million and $400 million, and 62% of the gambling receipts above $400 million.

Of the remaining gambling receipts, the State Treasury would get 30% of the 38% and Fairfax County would get 8% of the 38%.

It will bring addictive gambling with all its woes. Shameful.

Is the intention that this casino will be financed the same way as the arena in Potomac Yard?

In other words, will Virginia taxpayers be on the ok if the promised returns don’t happen?

Any updates from Richmond on the Casino today?

Lucas, as chair of the Senate Finance Committee, will have a substantial say on if the legalization occurs.

Lucas’ campaign has received more than $250,000 from casino owners and casino interests in the last five years according to campaign finance reports compiled by the Virginia Public Access Project.

In the last year, she has received a combined $105,000 from Va Operators for Skill and Pac-O-Matic the manufacturers of the Queen of Virginia Skill Games.
https://news.yahoo.com/state-sen-lucas-explains-why-040532738.html

Louise Lucas is an absolute fraud.

Anonymous wrote:What a farce. The money won’t be seen by residents. I don’t care where the propose building in Fairfax County, I do not support it. It is not the kind of business I or my friends anticipated.

It will be like the lottery. “Do it for the kiddies! Do it for schools.” Well, all that lottery money goes into a general fund that doesn’t 100% go to schools like they want people to think.

Isn’t enough that we have phone, drug and other addiction issues? Do we have add casino gambling to the mix????

This. It would do anything but benefit schools in Fairfax. Louise Lucas might siphon off a few dollars for some school in Portsmouth, but that’s about it.

What a farce. The money won’t be seen by residents. I don’t care where the propose building in Fairfax County, I do not support it. It is not the kind of business I or my friends anticipated.

It will be like the lottery. “Do it for the kiddies! Do it for schools.” Well, all that lottery money goes into a general fund that doesn’t 100% go to schools like they want people to think.

Isn’t enough that we have phone, drug and other addiction issues? Do we have add casino gambling to the mix????

Anonymous wrote:Jeff Hoffman, of McLean, whose Twitter account describes him as a “Chair, of the Virginia Freedom Leader Coalition” and a “conservative father, retired war college veteran, Adjunct Instructor for NY grad program, President and CEO (cyber)

Posted this to Twitter on Feb. 3…

Thought this name seemed familiar. He ran for a FCPS School Board seat and lost last election.

And he’s also this guy:

Fairfax School Board Candidate Says It's ‘Irrelevant' He Lied in Call to Pride Clinic

“Republican Jeff Hoffmann recorded himself lying about his identity on a call with the Inova Pride Clinic, which offers medical care for the LGBTQ+ community”

[/url]https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/fairfax-school-board-candidate-says-its-irrelevant-he-lied-in-call-to-pride-clinic/3257002/?amp=1[url]

Jeff Hoffman, of McLean, whose Twitter account describes him as a “Chair, of the Virginia Freedom Leader Coalition” and a “conservative father, retired war college veteran, Adjunct Instructor for NY grad program, President and CEO (cyber)

Posted this to Twitter on Feb. 3…