scissoring? lol!
Thats really bad news...
Want to know why Maryland...
Maryland casinos rake in nearly $13.6 million in April
Protectionism at it's finest. I'll bet the government attorneys involved all have highly paid positions waiting for them at the casinos as soon as they retire from government....
Good point.
In the state with the most draconian laws against online gaming, Washington State, the penalties for users of gambling sites, including poker, are quite stiff, as the player is committing a felony, and what a coincidence, the largest lobby in King county is a casino group (Emerald Queen) and a major campaign contributor for Gov. Chris Gregoire's election was a Tribe from Spokane...
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Everywhere we look, the state is in bed with big business (violently scissoring each other in some cases). The system has eroded to such a point that transparency isnt even the problem... We now have no illusion of a sound and just system of checks and balances, and the only thing which is growing faster than the size of the federal government is the amount of debt that future generations will be saddled with...
The process has changed, and with it the policy has too... The process used to be center around fundamental principles as out lined in the Bill of Rights... But as special interest's have become the pocket books of lawmakers, the policies of the legislature have increasingly been 'for sale'.
...gambling experts say the state's arrangement, which gives the governor power to approve or reject gambling agreements with the tribes and allows those same tribes to contribute to political campaigns, is ethically problematic but not illegal.
"It's a payoff," said University of Nevada-Las Vegas professor William Thompson, who has been studying tribal gambling since 1988. "She shouldn't take any campaign money, nor should her political party, and it smells too quid pro quo for my liking."
And yet she has, and since her election, Gregoire has overseen the passing and placement of legislation that pisses on the constitution and has led to the uprise of literally dozens of places to places a bet in one form or another, in nearly every strip mall and shopping center, nearly every bowling alley and many a cafe and sports bar.
Here is a google maps search for places to gamble in and near downtown Seattle...
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When you then consider that there are another 12 or so places with-in three miles to the west of this map, on and around Bainbridge Island, a place with a very low population density, and you further consider that most of these establishments are new, it becomes quite clear Gregoire's pacts with the tribes were not to keep the good ppl of Wash. St. away from the corrosive vice of gambling nor limit the expansion of tribal gaming(although it has done that)...
And I assert that the actions by the DoJ are, each and everyone, similarly motivated: by kickbacks, by campaign contributions, and by the same force on every bottom line.
ps: lol scissoring! !ror!
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