Casino News: Opposition to Online Gambling returns

Opposition to Online Gambling returns

 August 28, 2008, 9:29 am (3 years ago)
One of those exciting online gambler political proposals took place during last several days while the Poker Players Alliance advised US enthusiasts that the Republican Party Platform Committee can be a great place to make their opinions recognized. The Platform Committee is in charge of reporting the party's platform or proposal, and manages a site where suggestions and remarks on what are supposed to or not to be on the platform will be able to be posted.
According to what is being said, the call was answered most of the times, with a lot of players delivering opinion relating to longstanding, two sentence item on the platform showing the GOP's against Internet gambling.

When the draft for the newest platform appeared this week, it seemed as the action had made a constructive result, since the offending sentences had been taken out.

“This is a tiny victory in our strong-minded attempt to instruct both sides of the aisle that there is a right advocates in America that respects its Internet freedoms,” John Pappas, the Alliance’s executive director, explained.

Senator Richard Burr, a North Carolinian who is co-chairman of the 112 member platform committee, explained that the goal was to extend the party's appeal to extra voters.

But Burr warned against over confidence, bringing up a probable reaction from the conservative right of the party who had started up a call for the resistance to Internet gambling clause to be re-instituted.

In the end Senator Burr's perceptive concern proved true - the clause was reinstated, and reads: “Millions of Americans bear from problem or addicted gambling that will be able to obliterate families. We back up legislation banning gambling over the Internet or in student sports by student athletes who are taking part in competitive sports.”

The adversary of online gambling had succeeded, with Kendal Unrah of Colorado, who supported the revision putting the clause back in, stating: “Internet gambling symbolizes the most persistence and addictive form of gambling in our history.”

With the Republicans going towards their National Convention in the beginning of September, the platform has been reduced by approximately 50 % so as to rationalize the GOP message. The committee gathers again Wednesday to write the concluding document for the meeting to take on on its 1st day of discussions.
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