[PAULYPOKER]

Adelson to fight Internet gambling


Sheldon Adelson



American billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is trying to persuade Congress to ban internet betting, with critics arguing that Adelson’s effort is aimed at controlling his rivals using the Internet as a way to make more profit.


Adelson’s record-breaking campaign spending in 2012 made him an icon of the new super-donor era. He is best known for building upscale casino resorts in Nevada and more recently in Asia.

The billionaire argues that the online gambling is a danger to society and could tarnish the industry’s traditional business model, The Washington Post reported. Adelson is preparing a public campaign to portray online gambling as a danger to children, the poor and others who could be exploited by easy access to Internet betting, the Post added.

His competitors however, disagree. Rival firms view Adelson’s initiative as a major threat saying the billionaire’s push against Internet gambling is related to his business.

Adelson has already hired lobbyists and public relations experts to press his case in Washington and in state capitals nationwide.

“In my 15 years of working with him, I don’t think I have ever seen him this passionate about any issue,” the Post quoted Andy Abboud, Adelson’s top political adviser, as saying.

Adelson has about two dozen experts working nearly full time on the issue.

A coalition of advocacy groups, representing women, African Americans and Hispanics, are expected to start a campaign in January against online betting.

Three US states have moved to legalize online gambling, and over a dozen others are expected to consider it next year.

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[jjgold]

Guy is scared

people laughing at him

[ChalkyDog]

Corporations trying to manipulate government to increase their profit margins?

Revolutionary!

This country is as fukked as Mexico, it just takes more than $20 here to do whatever you want.

[NavsPicks]

Monopoly that's all he wants . No chance this happens

[PAULYPOKER]

Corporations trying to always manipulate government to increase their profit margins?

Revolutionary!

THE US GOVERNMENT INC........

Big Business law since 1913........

"You supply the bankroll then we will write and enforce the laws"........

[PAULYPOKER]

“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), founder of the House of Rothschild.“The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.” The Rothschild brothers of London writing to associates in New York, 1863.

[MUHerd37]

Won't happen

[crustyme]

another republicon dirtbag using "morality" to cover up his own self interests.

[MUHerd37]

another republicon dirtbag using "morality" to cover up his own self interests.

Yep he's almost as bad as a Democrat.

[PAULYPOKER]

When it becomes public

then IT quickly becomes redundant