By LEON STAFFORD, RACHEL TOBIN RAMOS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Just days after Underground Atlanta officials announced their hopes of bringing video gaming to the downtown attraction, a state legislator wants to offer full-fledged casinos statewide.
Rep. Roger Bruce (D-Atlanta) said Friday he plans to introduce legislation in the General Assembly next week that would allow voters to decide whether they want to bring gambling to their individual counties.
By going this route, he said, each jurisdiction will have the opportunity to plot its own destiny, instead of letting legislators decide.
“What I’m talking about doing is creating full-scale casinos or horse racing if they want them,” he said.
Gambling in Georgia has been bandied about for years, especially as states across the country have seen huge revenue gains from visitors and locals playing poker or spinning the roulette wheel.
House Speaker Pro-Tem Mark Burkhalter (R-Johns Creek) said last month most lawmakers in the Republican majority don’t support changing the state’s constitution to allow gambling. He couldn’t be reached immediately for this story.
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