The Legislature's casino gambling proposal is likely dead for the session. A vote to end a filibuster Monday fell one vote short of the 33 needed. That means the proposed constitutional amendment is off the agenda for the day and will not come back unless the speaker of the Legislature decides to put it back.

Speaker Curt Bromm of Wahoo said he doubts it will return.

The measure's sponsor, Sen. DiAnna Schimek, of Lincoln, said it most likely is dead for the year. Schimek had wanted to put a measure on the November ballot authorizing up to two casinos in Nebraska. She said the voters deserved an alternative to gambling proposals being circulating as petitions. Schimek said she thought she had 34 votes in favor of cutting off debate, but only 32 senators voted to do so.

"I'm not shedding tears over it because I don't know what else we could've done," DiAnna Schimek said.

The apparent defeat of a legislative proposal to legalize casinos is good news to gambling opponents. Director of Gambling with the Good Life Pat Loontjer said she is excited with the demise of the measure.