Activists held a rally today to show their anger against these propositions. The idea of casino gambling in the capital city has come up before a little more than ten years ago. If Propositions B and C pass on April 8, they would allow river boat gambling within the Jefferson City limits, similar to gambling in Boonville.

Saturday, 170 people took part in a rally organized by the group Citizens Supporting Integrity (C.S.I.), to say they are not going to roll the dice with this idea.

Opponents of propositions B and C were packed shoulder-to-shoulder to deliver the message, "No, No!" All 170 of these people believe a casino in Jefferson City would be a losing bet.

"When I first heard that they were considering bringing a gambling boat to Jefferson City, I was just devastated," said Nancy Sedlacek, a casino gambling opponent.

Sedlacek knows first-hand the perils of casino gambling. Her ex-husband was a gambling addict. They divorced after more than 20 years of marriage.

"For the last 20 years, my whole existence has just been survival," Sedlacek said.

She and a handful of other prominent Jefferson City residents spoke before the crowd to explain why casino gambling doesn't make sense, not only psychologically, but economically as well.

"There is revenue generated by tax dollars, but in most cases the cities have to spend even more than that revenue in order to cover the problems that are caused by the gambling boats," Sadlacek said.

"You can't do economics like that. You can't look down on the little micro level, you have got to look at economics at a macro level and understand who the people are in Jefferson City that are going to be employed at a casino," UMB Bank executive Brad Scriver said.

So with the vote about a month a way, this crowd's message is clear.

"Vote no on Proposition B, vote no on Proposition C, both of them are going to be detrimental to the community," Sedlacek said. 

"Hopefully we'll be persuasive enough so people will vote, "No, No!" on the casino on April 8," Scriver said.

Looking back to 1995, this same issue was brought down by voters 60 to 40. In fact, with that voting history, these opponents said they hope the results on April 8 will be the same.

Today's event highlighted only the negatives of casinos. There are still groups of people out there that favor casino gambling.