Every year, a massive gambling syndicate engages the Alabama State Legislature in a well-funded effort to give legal legitimacy to a despicable trade. And for the past couple of years, flagrant support has come from an unlikely source… the Christian Coalition of Alabama.
And then the sentence below popped out about the industry buying off legislators (LINK)--
Labor, across all of its branches, accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from gambling sources -- including $150,000 from the major national group Tabcorp -- as the federal government prepares to reform the gambling sector.
On a national level, the campaign contributions are listed here, sure to explode in light of the recent SCOTUS decision:
Casino/Gambling and Indian Gaming and Casino/Gambling Lobbyists
Closer to home, Ryan posted --
Mass Pols "Cash in with Casino Bill"
When you have a Senate President who acknowledged that she never reads anything ANTI gambling, is it any wonder? When the Senate President gestures as if she is pulling a long gone lever on a slot machine, it is clear she is uninformed.
She might want to read:
"By early 2000, Loveman [of Harrah's] and his crew had established, in great detail, that the players who hit the button the fastest were of far higher value than the slower hitters. The average slot player hit it six times a minute."
Christina Binkley, "Winner Takes All," page 194.
When decisions are based on campaign contributions, it sounds like a little ethics reform is needed. Oh, wait! We had ethics reform.
The message sent in the recent election wasn't clearly heard.
Voters want sustainable jobs that they can be proud of, that provide a future, that provide for advancement. They don't want dead end, low wage slot parlor jobs that chase away any other businesses because of the increased crime caused and drive down real estate values.
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