Geren wants Las Vegas in Texas

Star-Telegram Austin Bureau ^ | Feb. 16, 2005 | R.A. Dyer

[Dubya]

ONLINE:www.capitol.state.tx.us R.A. Dyer, (512) 476-4294 rdyer@star-telegram.com

[TXBSAFH]

I could not agree with this more. In Houston if you want to gamble you drive to Louisiana to do it. My wife and I do this about twice a year. The majority of the licence plate I see in the parking lot in Lake Charles are from TX. Lets keep the money in the state.

[peyton randolph]

I guess that if we want to tax stupid people more (those who can't do math), more statewide gambling would be a good idea. I'll vote against it.

[DixieOklahoma]

shoot it down boys,

The less sin citys we have invading the south, the better and more conservative the region stays.

[writmeister]

This should be fun watching my state rep and my state senator duke it out over gambling.

[Indie]

IMO, I hope it passes. The hypocrisy of the lotto and no casino gambling is blatant. At least in a casino, you can actually win, and it's as close to a fair bet as you'll ever get.

[sinkspur]

The less sin citys we have invading the south, the better and more conservative the region stays.

This from the state where some of the gap-toothed idiots are still pushing to re-legalize dumb animals cutting each other to ribbons with razors.

The Baptists will keep casino gambling out of Texas......for now.

[Dubya]

Good point. I know a few people who go to our church who sometimes go to another state to gamble. I don't see anything wrong with them doing that.

There will be plenty who don't want it in TX. They seem to thing they have to mother other people and their money.

[Zack Nguyen]

Republican Jane Nelson, a state senator from Lewisville, characterized the plan outlined Tuesday as "a terrible idea."

Jane Nelson is right. Rep. Geren is way off base here. Gambling dramatically increases social pathologies of all sorts - bankruptcy, divorce, crime, etc. There are some studies that claim that it is a net loss for a community, given the extra expenses for social disasters.

It typically tends to tempt the poor more than the rich as well.

[Dubya]

LOL. It will be fun to watch. I have already wrote my Rep and Sen and the Gov and ask them to OK gambling for school tax.

[TXBSAFH]

My wife and I onl;y take about $100 to gamble, slots. We have fun, sometimes we win sometimes we lose. But we always have fun and a few good meals on our day gambling trips.

[Dubya]

I'll vote against it.

I hope they give us a chance to vote and find out what the most people in TX want. I will vote for it myself.

I just hope they give us a chance to vote and tell us want is good for us and what is bad for us.

I don't gamble, but I don't see the sin in it.

[writmeister]

I really do not have strong feelings one way or the other about legalized gambling, but that is a good suggestion.

[Dubya]

Sounds like a fun trip to me. Its nice for you and your wife to be having fun together.

[Dubya]

Maybe not.

The Baptist, and I am a member of a SBC church, don't always vote the way the preachers tell them to.

[Dubya]

I hope it passes

ME TOO.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

We had a casino at the Alabama-Coushatta reservation outside of Livingston. The casinos in Louisiana bribed a federal judge to close the casino.

[One Proud Dad]

( paraphrase ) What "is" Vegas needs to stay in Vegas.

I'll vote against it. I am tired of seeing people who are living on the government buying cigarettes, liquor, and lottery tickets while I ( we ) foot the bill. If they can afford those items, they can afford to feed and cloth the many children they keep creating.

[TexasCajun]

Louisiana will disintegrate when Texas legalizes gambling!

[pepperdog]

Someone is going to lose a bunch of money--I mean everyone is going to lose a bunch of money. The people who play and the people who build the places. These are popping up everywhere and soon there will not be enough gamblers to support them all. I guess I shouldn't mind as I won't play nor invest, but it seems a sucker's game all the way around to me.