Palm Beach County voters could decide whether slot machines should be allowed at the Palm Beach Kennel Club. County commissioners on Tuesday will consider adding a referendum to next year’s presidential election ballot that would ask voters to weigh allowing slots at pari-mutuel facilities.

A final vote of the commission is set for Dec. 20. Upon approval by commissioners and then voters, slot machines would be allowed at the track, the county’s only pari-mutuel. Seven pari-mutuels in Broward and Miami-Dade counties have voter-approved slots. A 2009 amendment to the Florida Constitution allowed the two counties to conduct referendums on whether to allow the machine.



-Seeing a gambling executive like Dan Adkins of Mardi Gras Casino in Hallandale Beach turn into a gambling opponent, at least when it comes to this bill. That's because of the potential imbalance of having new competition with a 10 percent tax rate while slot machines at South Florida's parimutuel "racinos" like Mardi Gras remain taxed at 35 percent.

--Seeing the Genting Group of Asia arrogantly get way ahead of itself, buying a prime piece of waterfront land in downtown Miami and unveiling plans for a monstrously large casino before having one shred of legislative or zoning approval. With 5,200 hotel rooms, dozens of restaurants and more casino space than several of the largest Vegas resorts combined, the proposed design also features six cascading glass towers meant to resemble a coral reef over Biscayne Bay.
My favorite reaction to Genting's renderings came from humorist Dave Barry.

"One word – hurricane," Barry said in a radio interview. "There'll be pieces of glass landing in Atlanta from that thing."
Genting certainly threw caution to the winds with its brash vision, but now there's a backlash. Scaling back and dialing down the big promises of jobs, revenue and guaranteed visitors would seem a wiser course.

After all, there's no such thing as a sure thing. Just look at Dania Jai-Alai, where the house has taken a beating in recent years.
Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming bought the fronton and its slots license for $152.5 million in 2006, making big promises about jobs and redevelopment. Five years later, there are still no slots at the property, and a proposed sale at a big loss (for $80 million) just fell through.
No wonder why casino operator Las Vegas Sands is taking a more low-key approach to South Florida.

"We think it's better to go slow, start small with one [resort] and see if it's successful," Sands lobbyist Nick Iarossi said at a Fort Lauderdale business forum last week.
Odds are, full-blown Vegas-style resorts will be a long time coming.


 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, the results were LOUD and CLEAR, 97% said NO, she should NOT
apologize for publicly stating her support of marriage as one man, one
woman. Thank you for your participation!

Here are the results of other recent online polls we have conducted:

Should House Republican leaders cave in to President Obama's demands
and raise the debt ceiling again? –

 

 19.9% Yes
 77.0% No
 3.1% Not Sure

 

 Now that the Republicans have won a majority in the U.S. House of
Representatives and have gained six seats in the U.S. Senate, what is
the first thing they should do? –

 

 20.0% Create jobs and help small business?
 20.0% Cut spending and taxes?
 60.0% Repeal Obamacare and Hate Crimes legislation?
 
Should Florida judges who overturned state law protecting orphaned
children from adoption by a homosexual be impeached? –

87.9% Yes, they clearly are over-stepping their authority and
legislating from the bench.

 

 2.1% Not sure - this could go either way.
 10.0% No, the law violated the rights of others and therefore it was
a good ruling


 Recently we heard the State of The Union address from our President.
What was your impression? –

 

 0.0% I was encouraged and think that things will now turn around.
 75.0% I was discouraged. It was the same old rhetoric, lots of empty
promise!
 25.0% I didn't watch or hear anything about it! It is just politics
as usual!

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

City Attorney Gets it Wrong!

 

MIAMI-Today, the Christian Family Coalition, (CFC), Florida's
tireless human rights and social justice organization, announced that
the Plantation city council has REJECTED "warnings" from the ACLU and
their own attorney, to take down their legal holiday displays!

 

 "Rather, the Plantation city council did the right thing and followed
the advice of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) and the Christian Family
Coalition, (CFC), in a letter urging Mayor Bendekovic and the entire
Plantation city council to keep their legal holiday display intact,
this is truly a victory for freedom", stated Anthony Verdugo, Founder
and Executive Director, Christian Family Coalition, (CFC).

 

 Unfortunately, Plantation City Attorney Don Lunny, continuously
ignored the wise counsel offered to him by both the Alliance Defense
Fund (ADF) and the Christian Family Coalition (CFC) and, as a result,
has publicly and needlessly embarrassed himself when his client, the
city of Plantation, ignored his own "legal" advice to "put aside"
these legal holiday displays. MORE

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PLANTATION— Joseph, Mary and the Baby Jesus have no business posing in a public park — even if they're accompanied by a Hanukkah menorah.

"Inappropriate" is the word the Broward chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union uses to describe the holiday display planned for Liberty Tree Park.

It's like Christmas in July, with all the traditional trimmings: squabbles over religious displays in super-sensitive South Florida.

 

The ACLU, in a letter to city officials, warned that displaying a Nativity scene and menorah violates the separation of church and state. The problem, the rights group said, is that the city is advocating for two religions while ignoring all the others.

"We feel it's a violation of the First Amendment and an endorsement of religion," said the ACLU's Barry Butin. "If they were really neutral and didn't favor one over the other, they'd have a more inclusive display: Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist."

Butin didn't mention the Wiccan religion, whose symbol presumably would be a broomstick.

The ACLU has already warned Plantation — twice — against setting up religious displays. It was acting on a complaint from an unidentified board member who doesn't live in Plantation but photographed the creche and menorah one Christmastime. MORE


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By: Ryan Calhoun

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Many believe legalizing gay marriage in New York brings new life to the national gay rights movement and it’s caused one Boca Raton pastor to host services in hopes to stop that movement from coming to Florida.

 

Church of All Nations Pastor Mark D. Boykin held two services titled “Gay Marriage: The New Morality?” Sunday morning looking to unite those to stay vigilant against legislators who want to legalize homosexual marriage in Florida.

 

"For two men to live together and have carnal relations or two women to be together and have carnal relations, we believe that is a sin," Boykin said.

At Church of Our Savior, MCC they don’t feel the same way.  click below link for more

 

 

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