{"id":13451,"date":"2013-02-15T14:15:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=13451"},"modified":"2013-02-15T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T18:43:25","slug":"hassan-pitches-casino-during-budget-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2013\/02\/15\/hassan-pitches-casino-during-budget-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Hassan Pitches Casino During Budget Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13452\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Hassan's budget gambles on New Hampshire allowing one, high-end casino to set up shop in the state\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2013\/02\/2212178413_df0a2ebec1.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13452\" title=\"Gambling\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2013\/02\/2212178413_df0a2ebec1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2013\/02\/2212178413_df0a2ebec1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2013\/02\/2212178413_df0a2ebec1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Alan Cleaver \/ Flickr Creative Commons<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hassan&#39;s budget gambles on New Hampshire allowing one, high-end casino to set up shop in the state<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Governor Maggie Hassan used her budget address to propose a new, high-end casino.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Hassan\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.nh.gov\/media\/news\/2013\/pr-2013-02-14-balanced-budget.htm\" target=\"_blank\">budget<\/a> banks on this casino generating $80 million in licensing fees.\u00a0 And she said the state is already dealing with the social costs of gambling allowed in <em>other <\/em>states, without benefiting from the revenue.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd with Massachusetts moving forward, we can no longer pretend that expanded gambling isn\u2019t coming to our communities.\u00a0 It is,&#8221; Hassan said.\u00a0 &#8220;The question is, will we allow Massachusetts to take revenue from New Hampshire\u2019s residents to fund its needs, or will we develop our own plan that will allow us to address social costs and invest in our priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hassan also said building a casino would create jobs: two thousand in construction and one thousand permanent positions.<\/p>\n<p>The state Senate has voted to support expanded gambling in New Hampshire, while lawmakers in the House have repeatedly rejected it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Maggie Hassan used her budget address to propose a new, high-end casino. Governor Hassan\u2019s budget banks on this casino generating $80 million in licensing fees.\u00a0 And she said the state is already dealing with the social costs of gambling allowed in other states, without benefiting from the revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":13452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474],"tags":[446,354,242,355,544,540,85,494],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13456,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13451\/revisions\/13456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}