[JoseRijo]

On the front page of today's Boston Globe is an article about the governor's attempt to make online gaming illegal.

Patrick legislation aims to make Internet gambling illegal - The Boston Globe

My favorite line:
"If you were cynical about it, you'd think that they're trying to set up a monopoly for the casinos,"
said David G. Schwartz, director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

You mean, if I were cynical or born before last Thursday.

I just wish this was in Sunday's paper instead of Saturday's.

[JM]

And if you're not cynical but have at least an average IQ and are a realist, you know that's exactly WHY they have that in the bill! They don't want the competition. DUH!

[dasquared]

Of course that's the reason - I assume in MA that the state gets a portion of the revenue from the casinos as they do here in IL - and that was probably the selling point they used to get it apporved by the more conservative groups. Well, if that payoff isn't realized, not only does it hurt businesses and jobs in the area, it hurts their record and the state budgets...

[TheMightyJim2k]

I already wrote him and some other folks a letter calling him a hypocrit among other things. I'm sure he'll never read the letter I sent, but maybe enough people will complain that this bill will get changed.

I would be a major customer to a casino here in Boston, but if it means they are going to try and make my primary source of income illegal, then they can bite me.

[legend]

Duval Patrick is also trying to cut the racetracks out of the equation. It's easy to tell when he's lying, hiss lips are moving. It also figures that the globe wouldn't have the stones to put it on the front page of the Sunday paper. About 4 people read the Saturday paper as opposed to 300,000 that read the Sunday Globe. It's an anti Irish rag anyway that uses big words that people who read the Herald can't understand.