[cripplecreek]

The ultimate death knell for gambling as we know it is for voters to insist they’re adults and can play cards at home or at their local bar if they feel like it. IOW, TRUE legalized gambling....not the kind that makes a few well-heeled individuals richer and dumps dollars in state tax coffers.

That makes sense to me.

[xzins]

I was amazed in Ohio when they ran the campaign to “legalize gambling” that their campaign was pretty much that adults should be able to gamble if they want to, and they don’t need a bunch of religious prudes telling them they can’t.

By “legalized” they meant giving 3 or 4 rich businesses the right to build casinos in our 3 or 4 largest cities.

When clear-thinking people tried to say, “OK, then let’s legalize adult gambling!” the media shills and plants for the state and the casinos went ballistic. Advocates of true legalized gambling were — this is the truth — called “anti-gambling pro-nanny staters.”