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Labor organizations, including the New York City teachers union, alongside the Business Council of New York State have raised over $2.85 million in a little more than 3 weeks to promote a statewide gambling expansion ballot measure. The proposed measure has clauses which would bring millions in taxes from the casinos to public schools budgets. Other groups, including the New Jersey Carpenters Fund and the Oneida Indian Nation among others, have spent hundreds of thousands promoting the measure. The ballot?s opponents say that they are unlikely to spend even a fraction of the measures proponents. Instead, the opponents will rely on grassroots movement and cheap or free media such as the internet. The vote on the measure will take place on November 5th.