Comstock Holding Companies has spent more than $3.5 million on lobbyists and political contributions to push its casino legislation to the brink of adoption by the Virginia General Assembly, according to financial filings with the Virginia Department of Elections.
On Friday, Patch broke the story that the Virginia Senate had passed substitute legislation that significantly altered the casino legislation that’s making is way through the state legislature.
These changes included allowing a temporary casino to operate for 5 years without local control and adding language to the bill specifying that the casino would be built in Tysons and not somewhere else in Fairfax County.
