PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Canadian investment firm has pumped more than $2 million into a campaign asking voters to approve Oregon’s first privately owned casino.
The gambling proposal is one of the most hotly contested of seven ballot measures Oregon voters are considering before Tuesday’s deadline to return ballots.
Campaign finance records show that Toronto-based Clairvest Investment Group Inc. is the only donor to a campaign promoting the casino measure. The Clairvest money is nearly four times the $560,000 raised by opponents of the proposed casino.
Voters also will decide whether to impose mandatory minimum sentences for some repeat criminals.
Other ballot measures ask voters whether to create medical marijuana dispensaries and whether lawmakers should meet every year.
