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CASINO CLOSING: Horseshoe employees getting aid - 2004-01-20
While executives continued negotiations Monday to close Harrah's $50 million deal to buy Binion's Horseshoe, over 200 of the closed casino's employees sought assistance from Nevada Partners
and the Culinary Training Academy.

Lawyers for Harrah's Entertainment and Binion's owner Becky Binion Behnen met Saturday and Sunday and discussed terms for the proposed deal that would have Harrah's take over the 52-year old hotel-casino in exchange for assuming about $50 million in Horseshoe debt, sources said.
Read the full story at Las Vegas Review-Journal

Casino campaigns begin - 2004-01-20
A grassroots movement to get out the vote will push
Measure X to victory, according to casino supporters who launched their campaign last Thursday during an overflow rally at Holiday Inn Express.

“The important thing is getting out the vote,” said Councilman Dennis Nowicki, Hesperia’s most visible supporter of the project. “The supporters of the casino in this town are in the majority.”
Furthermore, according to Nowicki, high voter turnout will result in victory for the pro-casino side.

“We will not only win, but we’ll win by a decisive margin,” Nowicki said.
Read the full story at Hesperia Star