Petersburg’s casino referendum legislation is expected to get its first legislative look this week, and it apparently will do so with a lot more optimism this year than in the last two sessions.
Virginia House Speaker Don Scott credits that optimism to one word: leadership.
“Last year, it had the wrong people leading it,” Scott, D-Portsmouth, told The Progress-Index last week during an interview in his office. When asked to elaborate on that, he said he felt the forces pushing for the legislation were doing so for political gain, not for the betterment of Petersburg.
“I think right now, the right people are based in the community who really care and don’t bring politics in…” Scott said.
