Casino plan knocked off ballot in D.C.

[Freddie Stubbs]

08/05/2004

By HEATHER GREENFIELD / Associated Press

A proposal to put a casino in the nation's capital was knocked off the ballot Thursday by election officials who accused supporters of flouting the law to acquire signatures for petitions.

"They turned the law of the District of Columbia on its head," said Wilma A. Lewis, chair of the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics.

Lewis — a former U.S. Attorney — denounced the group's tactics, accusing them of using nonresidents to gather signatures and false advertising to get people to sign petitions. She said the board learned about the signature gathering process through sworn witness testimony and its own investigation.

"It revealed a process, a significant portion of which was fatally flawed," Lewis said. The board will issue a full report next week.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Danger of gambling in DC: lobbyists will lose their cash before getting

to Congress.