The expansion of gambling draws more attention in SC State House

Columbia, SC (WIS) – for South Carolinianer who want to press their luck and want to win great, the lottery is its only option.

Those who want to shoot the slot machines who have to roll cubes in a casino or take care of sports must legally travel to other states, whereby almost all forms of gambling in the Palmetto federal state are illegal.

The efforts to expand gambling in South Carolina will currently get more attention in the State House than in a while – including a push of developing the state’s first casino.

“There is no time like the present, but what is more important, the jobs can hardly wait, and the area really needs it,” said Wallace Cheves, owner of the Santee Developer Corporation.

In addition to Interstate 95, Cheves wants to build a casino on a 40 hectare property in a former mall in Santee in Orangeburg County.

He has already acquired the country and is planning to destroy the old buildings soon to make a project of 1 billion US dollars that would include the casino and a hotel as well as other functions such as a possible congress center.

“This is in the possession of South Carolina. I was born from South Carolina. We are ready to invest our money in the project and not ask for incentives,” said Cheves.

But the state law has to change for this or any casino to become a reality.

A cross -party law submitted in the House of Representatives would set up a state gaming commission that could licens a casino in order to be installed in the counties on the Interstates, and which have lower incomes and higher unemployment rates per capita, which also include Orangeburg County.

In the meantime, the senators are considering a different legislative template that legalizes a close form of sports betting, especially for live horse races with approved Advanced Depony Wetten apps.

“Not something in the past, no slot machines – this is only for the horse industry,” said Senator Michael Johnson, R -York and the main sponsor of the law.

Income would finance grants to support the horse industry in South Carolina, some of whom believe that they could generate more buy-in from those who are otherwise hesitating to support the expansion of gambling.

It is not enough to bring governors Henry McMaster on board.

“Let’s find a different way to support this great sports sport,” McMaster recently told reporters. “Just find a way that does not open the door for so many of the things that we don’t want in South Carolina.”

In order to become the law, these legislation would have to receive the signature of McMaster, a convinced, long -time gambling opponent or sufficient support in the general assembly in order to overwrite a governor Veto, for which two thirds of the individual body are required.

“Gambling is bad for our culture. It is not part of our heritage, and there are better ways to make money, give jobs, generate tax money, generate a flourishing economy than to play,” said McMaster.

At the moment, the template for horse betting remains in a subcomgeees of Senate Financing, while the Casino bill has not yet received its first hearing in the house, so both of them are still a way away from reaching the governor’s desk.

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