{"id":1024,"date":"2010-02-03T02:20:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T06:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2017-12-19T15:06:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T20:06:18","slug":"nh-lobbyists-rolling-in-gambling-cash-sb-489","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2010\/02\/03\/nh-lobbyists-rolling-in-gambling-cash-sb-489\/","title":{"rendered":"NH Lobbyists Rolling in Gambling Cash (SB 489)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Bill 489 is the number for Senator Lou D\u2019Allesandro\u2019s latest effort to bring slots to New Hampshire. Unlike the House where all bills had to be out a month ago, Senate bills follow a more leisurely path, and the new gambling bill has just been unveiled.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhbr.com\/May-7-2010\/Gambling-defeat-in-House-was-a-good-move\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thankfully, this bill was defeated!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gambling defeat in House was a good move<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;On April 21, the New Hampshire House soundly defeated a massive gambling expansion, voting 212-158 to kill Senate Bill 489. The bill \u2014 which would have allowed six casinos and slot machine facilities to open around the state \u2014 had become a \u201cChristmas tree\u201d of ideas, with many communities, including Manchester and Groveton, seeking to get in on the act. Gov. John Lynch, in a decisive move, announced that he would veto the bill if it got to his desk.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Bill 489 is the number for Senator Lou D\u2019Allesandro\u2019s latest effort to bring slots to New Hampshire. Unlike the House where all bills had to be out a month ago, Senate bills follow a more leisurely path, and the new gambling bill has just been unveiled. Thankfully, this bill was defeated! Gambling defeat in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gambling","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6843,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/6843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}