The Richmond casino referendum planned for this November’s election saw its odds improve this week. That’s after lawmakers in the Virginia capital hit a stalemate trying to figure out how to spend a $3.6 billion surplus.
Outgoing state Sen. Jim Morrissey (D-Richmond, Petersburg) last year succeeded in convincing his General Assembly colleagues to implement a budget provision that prevented Richmond from conducting a second casino ballot referendum. Richmond voters narrowly rejected a 2021 casino question for a proposed integrated resort on the city’s south side. The project would have been along I-95, adjacent to the Philip Morris manufacturing campus.
Outgoing state Sen. Jim Morrissey (D-Richmond, Petersburg) last year succeeded in convincing his General Assembly colleagues to implement a budget provision that prevented Richmond from conducting a second casino ballot referendum. Richmond voters narrowly rejected a 2021 casino question for a proposed integrated resort on the city’s south side. The project would have been along I-95, adjacent to the Philip Morris manufacturing campus.