Max Brantley, editor of the Arkansas Times, on the Gulfside case has another opinion piece on the Pope County casino issue.
One of the things that Gulfside — and Brantley in his article — has wrong is the idea that “Downstream, which got the permit in Jefferson County, had its letters of support accepted before Racing Commission rules were finalized.”
For the Pine Bluff casino application, Downstream Development, like Gulfside, did submit letters of support from officials whose terms ended on December 31, 2018. However, with their application submitted in May, Downstream submitted letters from officials currently in office in Jefferson County.
Gulfside conveniently ignores this in their filings.