Senate smackdown: Here’s our Seminole deal. Take it or leave it.

By at 6 March, 2010, 8:12 pm

The Florida Senate has come out with a new Seminole Indian gambling compact — and this time, the chamber puts Gov. Charlie Crist and the tribe in a box: take our deal or leave it. The new Senate bill, SB622, is basically the same legislation the Legislature approved last year, and Crist and the tribe promptly ignored. It would give the tribe blackjack at its facilities in Broward and Hillsborough counties (including both Hard Rock casinos) in exchange for at least $150 million a year in payments. Now, though, the bill includes this beauty of a clause:

“The compact authorized by this part may include additional provisions for the effective administration of the compact, but the Governor is not authorized to negotiate execute a compact that has any provision that is inconsistent with, or differs from, the terms and standards for a compact as set forth in this” bill. Read the bill here. It will get a hearing in Wednesday’s Senate Regulated Industries Committee, but not a vote. That will come later. More analysis later.

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Senate smackdown: Here’s our Seminole deal. Take it or leave it.

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