Best Casino If/When Florida stakes increase??

[soulvamp]

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This is probably the wrong thread, but at Hard Rock Tampa last night, one of the dealers seemed confident the no-cap NL games would be back on or before 11 September. Not sure that means anything, though.

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He's talking about the new Sept 11 deadline that was given to the State to negotiate a compact with the Seminole tribe.

In my opinion, a lot of people are just assuming that the governor will be able to reach an agreement without the intervention of the legislature. The Florida constitution does not grant the governor specific rights to negotiate like this on behalf of the state, so it's likely this will either go to legislature or be help up by the state supreme court.

I think the Sept 11 date is a bit optimistic. I'm not saying that an agreement won't be reached, but also consider that other tribes in other states have fought back and forth for years trying to negotiate Class III gaming compacts. It won't be as quick and painless as a lot of people are expecting. Florida has a large conservative base who will definitely put up a strong opposition.

There was also a recent precedent in which it was ruled by the US Supreme Court that the Federal Dept of the Interior can not merely assign a mediator who determines terms of the compact. It puts many tribes in sticky situations where their representatives and liasons in government are left with their hands tied when the tribe and state can not reach a viable working compact.

This could be an issue left in 'limbo' for some time still.

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This is not the first deadline extension this has been given. Jeb Bush was given a deadline while he was still in office, he never met the deadline and it all just went away.

I think everyone has gotten all excited about the new legislation that took effect July 1 and now is expecting the walls of Jericho to come tumbling down overnight. Even if there is some sort of agreement announced Sept. 11, it'll take three or four years for the lawyers to sort it all out. Remember, it took almost four years and about a half-dozen court orders for the first Class III slot machine to be installed after Broward voters made them legal.

[cygnus21]

on that same note though we do have the july 1 legislation to be happy about. if this bill was passed under the bush administration it most likely would have been vetoed, and alot of the delat on the class III machines in broward county was the former governor stalling. this is enough to make me alot more optimistic than a couple of years ago.