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Senate Republicans revive legislation to ban online gambling
Washington Post ^ | September 28, 2016 | Catherine Ho

Posted on 09/28/2016 9:05:05 AM PDT by C19fan

The day after it became public that billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson gave $20 million to a super PAC with close ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), three GOP senators introduced legislation that would effectively ban online gambling — a measure Adelson has long pushed for.

The super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, backs Senate Republicans and is run by McConnell’s former chief of staff Steven Law. The group received $28 million in August — more than it raised during the entire 2016 election cycle. The vast majority, $20 million, came from Adelson and his wife Miriam. The contributions were made public on Sept. 20, per Federal Election Commission filings. The legislation was introduced Sept. 21.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gambling
The modern day version of the Bootlegger-Baptist coalition.
1 posted on 09/28/2016 9:05:05 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Isn’t it “wonderful” to see McScrotum Chin “leading” on the gut issues we face as a nation. The country is in dire straits in a myriad of ways and yet these worthless turds in the GOPe can find time for this crap. What’s next regulating the air pressure in the tires on children’s bicycles?


2 posted on 09/28/2016 9:09:15 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: C19fan

Why is this so important? Sheesh


3 posted on 09/28/2016 9:11:50 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: C19fan

Obviously, got their priorities straight.


4 posted on 09/28/2016 9:12:01 AM PDT by moovova
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To: vette6387

Of all the chit in the world these morons are worried about gambling. Giving away the internet no big deal.


5 posted on 09/28/2016 9:13:26 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

It’s not about on-line gambling. It is about Pay to Play, exactly how Trump is describing the Clinton foundation. Now there is a moral equivalency between Democrats and Republicans.


6 posted on 09/28/2016 9:15:54 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Lester Holt — Clinton House Boy.)
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To: C19fan

Poker is as American as apple pie, and so is ignoring laws against gambling :)


7 posted on 09/28/2016 9:16:45 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: C19fan

This...this is what they choose to focus on. I’m done with these worm eating, cork soaking, rotten, filthy, traitorous sonsabitches. NOT ONE GOP CANDIDATE will have my vote this year, save Trump. That’s it. I hope to see the traitorous, back stabbing, money grubbing sh!tbag GOP go down in flames.


8 posted on 09/28/2016 9:17:35 AM PDT by dware (TRUMP/PENCE 2016!)
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What I really want them to do is focus on KEEPING the internet


9 posted on 09/28/2016 9:18:07 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: C19fan

We lost seats in 2006 over this nonsense. A lot of people who are mostly conservative/libertarian in orientation also like their on-line poker. These days, a lot also like their fantasy football/baseball “games of skill”.

I HATE the proliferation of video slots that have had dire consequences, as the net result is to make the poor poorer in places like Rockford, Illinois, where I have seen what it did there first hand, and know law enforcement agents who can vouch with direct knowledge.

Unless you are willing to go back to a 1960s setup where it was Vegas/Reno and a few horse/dog tracks or nothing, that toothpaste is NOT going back in the tube. It started with weekly lottery tickets, then scratch-offs, then Jai-Alai, then Atlantic City, then Indian casinos, then more lottery games, dozens of scratch-offs, daily numbers, then national lottery games with bigger jackpots, then the proliferation of fantasy leagues that effectively bring the sports book everywhere, etc.

Online gaming is a small piece of the puzzle. It’s the five families, and the government is the biggest of the five families, protecting its turf. It’s for education funding, doncha know?


10 posted on 09/28/2016 9:23:38 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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Congress acts like it packed it’s bags and moved to California.

Out here, the state addresses many things. It just never addresses things that really need to be fixed.

With all our problems, they focus on gun control over and over and over and over and over and over and over... Each new bill is the one to fix it.

Congress has ignored Obama for eight years. Now they focus on online gambling. Boy now there’s an epidemic robbing Americans blind.

Never mind the over taxation (flat out stealing us blind to give to others.) When a business online takes our money by permission, that’s criminal behavior.


11 posted on 09/28/2016 9:27:32 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (41 days: Until Presdient Pre-elect becomes President Elect Donald J. Trump. Help is on the way!)
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To: BigEdLB

Well you don’t want them to waste time trying to hold onto the Internet do you? Sheesh!


12 posted on 09/28/2016 9:30:58 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: C19fan; All

Patriots, please consider the following.

First, Senate attention on Internet gambling is sponsored by the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A), that amendment arguably repealing the whole Constitution.

And speajing of 17A, patriots need to get into the habit of checking every action, or proposed action, of the corrupt feds against the fed’s constitutionally limited powers, most of these powers enumerated in Section 8 of Article I.

Regarding gambling, given that previous generatons of state sovereignty justices had clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specfic powers to regulate either INTRAstate commerce or contracts, intluding interstate contracts, I don’t see where the feds have the express power to regulate Internet gambling.

Corrections, insights welcome.

This gambling legislation is arguably another example of the unconstitutionally big federal government once again unconstitutionally expanding its powers.


13 posted on 09/28/2016 9:32:26 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: BigEdLB

“Why is this so important? Sheesh”

So that Joe Schmo will vote for HILLARY...
A LOT of people I know voted Obama in 2008(??)not because of Obama, but because Repubs were going to ban online poker.


14 posted on 09/28/2016 9:32:59 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: C19fan

McConnell. What a statesman.

The Clintons don’t have a monopoly on pay to play.


15 posted on 09/28/2016 9:38:02 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Yet again it's all about 'control'......especially anything that generates a steady flow of large amounts of revenue which might be disruptive to where they otherwise determine revenues should go.... Keeping in mind the entire Globalists push is 'consolidation of revenue flows' (and human capital)... which ever country brings the greatest revenue 'flows' to the NWO Governing body will determine who sits where once Global Governance is firmly in place.


16 posted on 09/28/2016 9:41:41 AM PDT by caww
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Well I see the GOPe is afraid it might actually hold on to the Senate. We’ve seen this before 10 years ago when Bill Frist, on his way out the door, passed an Internet gambling to assure the GOPe would lose the Senate. It worked like a charm — as Conrad Burns and George Allen were narrowly defeated trimming the GOPe caucus from 51 down to 49. Absent Frist’s antics, the GOPe would certainly have held those 2 seats.


17 posted on 09/28/2016 9:48:17 AM PDT by rhinohunter (Dear OANN: PLEASE move the lovely Liz Wheeler up by 1 hour. Update: Plea answered. Thanks OANN!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
It’s not about on-line gambling. It is about Pay to Play, exactly how Trump is describing the Clinton foundation. Now there is a moral equivalency between Democrats and Republicans.

If I as an American want to gamble online, I'm darn well going to do it.

Vote Trump!

18 posted on 09/28/2016 9:57:16 AM PDT by sargon (The Revolution is ON! Vote Trump!)
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To: C19fan

Just like the Gambino family they get a little testy when you don’t give them their cut.


19 posted on 09/28/2016 10:27:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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