Governor Ted Strickland has yet to sign the state budget featuring slot machines at Ohio’s seven race tracks, but already a legal challenge is in the works.

The newly-passed state budget includes many non-budget items, creates winners and losers, and makes politicians glad to be finished with the process.

State lawmakers hastily voted to approve a budget bill Monday that legalizes racetrack slots, overhauls the funding of public schools and reverses a tuition freeze at state colleges and universities.

UPDATE: Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is asking state lawmakers to work around the clock until a new two-year budget is reached to replace the one that expired last week.

Multimillion-dollar downpayments on racetrack slots proposed by Gov. Ted Strickland are at risk if Ohio voters approve a competing casino plan in November, the chief executive of a major racing company said Friday.

The slots committee was scheduled to meet again Friday, a state holiday.

Gambling opponents continued to denounce the plan, saying the revenue estimates were unreliable and threatening a possible legal challenge should it be approved.

Some people in the horse-racing and breeding industry are saying forget about creating jobs—if gambling isn’t expanded, jobs actually will be lost.