The state fair commission voted narrowly to approve the lease for The Downs at Albuquerque Racino. “It was an extremely sad situation for the people of New Mexico, the process that was pursued in this whole RFP was extremely flawed, was not transparent,” said David Vogel a neighbor who opposes the lease. On Monday they say their claims were reinforced. The state fair commission was supposed to be meeting to discuss the proposed 25 year lease that includes the building of a brand new $20-million casino a little closer to Louisiana and Central. Then in a surprising move, Commissioner Kennedy introduced a motion to vote on the lease. Not all commissioners were on board with that. “So we can take the vote now and disregard the public and disregard a stack of actions taken against the downs from the state gaming board? We can ignore the advice of the LFC?” asked Commissioner Rode. In the end the three commissioners opposed to voting on the lease Monday were out voted and in a narrow 4-3 vote on the lease the motion carried. Commissioner’s Sanchez, Kennedy, Goff and Bitsui voted in favor of the lease. Commissioner’s Rode, Roybal and Smith voted against the lease...more
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