Protect Our Neighborhoods
For Immediate Release: February 28, 2012
Contact: Charlie Brown, 720-337-6666 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT GROUPS OPPOSING GAMING EXPANSION BILL 
HB12-1280 Continuing to Draw Statewide Oppositition
Protect Our Neighborhoods

Leadership

Charlie Brown,  PON President
Denver City Council

Ron Weidmann, PON Secretary/Treas.
Centennial City Council

Devon Barclay
Edigewater City Council

Jim Bensberg
El Paso County Commissioner

Robert Broom
Aurora City Council

David Casiano
Parker Mayor

Sean Conway
Weld County Commissioner

Macon Cowles
Boulder City Council

Daryl Glenn
El Paso County Commissioner

Carlos Guara
Former Mayor of Montrose

Dallas Hall
Sheridan Mayor

Dennis Hisey
El Paso County Commissioner

Gary Horak
Fort Collins City Council

Peggy Littleton
El Paso County Commissioner

Molly Markert
Aurora City Council

Terry Maketa
El Paso County Sheriff

Ted Mink
Jefferson County Sheriff

Douglas Monger
Routt County Commissioner

Bob Murphy
Lakewood Mayor

Adam Paul
Lakewood City Council

Ira J. Rhodes
Chief, Cunningham Fire Dist.

Grayson Robinson
Arapahoe County Sheriff

Hannah Rush
Pueblo Citizen Activist

Nancy Sharpe
Arapahoe County Commissioner

Bill Swenson
Longmont

Jim Taylor
Littleton City Council

Kathy Teter
Former Member,
Commerce City Council

Judy Weaver
Pueblo City Council

Heidi Williams
Thornton Mayor

Marc Williams
Arvada Mayor

 
 


The Colorado Municipal League (CML), representing 265 Colorado cities and towns, is the latest local government organization to come out in opposition to HB12-1280, the measure by State Rep. Don Coram, R-Montrose, to bring at least three super casinos to Front Range and Western Slope communities.

 

CML joins Colorado Counties, Inc., representing county commissioners from all 64 Colorado counties, in opposing the bill. The City of Aurora and the Arapahoe County Board of Commissioners are also fighting the bill, as is Action 22, a coalition of businesses and communities in 22 Southeastern Colorado counties. Should HB12-1280 become law, the first of the new super casinos is almost certain to be located at the Arapahoe Park racetrack in Eastern Arapahoe County, near Aurora.

 

The House Agriculture heard testimony on the bill February 22, but delayed taking a vote.

 

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About Protect Our Neighborhoods

Charlie Brown
Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown
President, PON

Founded in 2009, Protect Our Neighborhoods (PON) is dedicated to ensuring that casino gaming including slot machines, video lottery/keno machines, instant racing machines, poker parlors and Native American casinos is not extended beyond the three mountain towns where it is currently allowed without a prior vote of the neighborhoods that will be impacted.

Registered with the Colorado Secretary of State as a non-profit corporation, PON works with like-minded organizations, including the Colorado Gaming Association, to ensure that Colorado lives up to the promise of prior voter approval as a pre-condition to any gaming expansion.

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