Posted on 03/13/2011 6:32:06 AM PDT by BillKneer
Remember back when the conservative voters of this state won a massive victory on 11.2.10, and we felt Texas deserved a conservative Speaker who would appoint committee chairs and members who would further the conservative agenda? For over three months the conservatives in Texas waged a battle against the choice of Rep. Joe Straus as Speaker of the Texas House because we knew that Joe Straus was no conservative.
Unfortunately, on Jan. 11, 2011, Joe Straus was chosen once again to be the Speaker of the House, but not before he was forced to spend millions of dollars to hire 16 consultants and “buy” votes from his fellow House members, as reported by TexasGOPVote.com
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This was one of our BIG concerns with Joe Straus but may did not care and even got offended by our concerns. Well if this goes through there WILL be primary opponents.
Let's not sell our souls for a few dollars that will only be wasted.
I used to be against having casinos in our state, but considering these hard times, these are tax dollars that could be better applied to our own state.
On our last drive to Austin, my wife and I stopped at the Win-Star Casio in Oklahoma about 75 minutes north of Dallas on I-35. I was surprised to see a Vegas sized casino in this area. Extremely nice place and good food. Operated by the Chickasaw Tribe
Sell you souls? WTH! It’s a GAME and conservatives are acting like liberals in trying to regulate every damn thing. What right do YOU have to tell anyone how to spend their own money? It’s infuriating to me.
I haven't seen a penny from it. I don't gamble, personally, because the odds are with the state.
Yep the sell your soul comment is the weakest argument made.
In my opinion, Galveston could be the third coasts’ Atlantic City.
As a Houstonian, I would welcome that.
I’ve been to Reno, Vegas, and many, many indian casino’s in between. I am not a gambler, but I go for the food and blow $20. The indian casino’s I’ve been don’t even serve alcohol.
Gambling is sleazy, I don’t want it. JMHO!
Now thats funny.
Gambling will not help TX. I left a pro gambling state. Gambling doesn’t produce any money at all.
Attaching your state revenues to gambling is crazy. What will happen is that more deficits will be run.
The sensible thing is to stay the hell away from gambling as a state enterprise.
It helps the pro gambling states next to the ones who ban it. I’m from SW Louisiana not far from Texas where there are several casinos. Most of the people who go there are Texans and taxes on those casinos pretty much funded my education :)
Gamblers are going to gamble, all Texas is doing is sending its money out of state.
If they allow it, which I doubt, I sure hope they keep the Indians away from them. The Oklahoma ones suck. The tribe controls the pay tables and they’re all awful for the slots.
On the table games you have to pay 50 cents a hand to play. It’s absurd and ruins it. Oh, and you don’t get comped booze either.
Given the opportunity, I’ll vote against it.
***Operated by the Chickasaw Tribe***
We have several over the line in Oklahoma operated by the Cherokees. Even in the worst of times the parking lots are always full!
And the one in Durant OK will be a doozie!
Getting the state involved in gambling is a bad, bad thing. Texas is better off on it’s balance sheet by keeping it out of TX.
And you are right, that gamblers are going to gamble. They are free to do so in OK or LA.
The other states getting Texas’ citizen’s money thank you for being so tunnel visioned.
How will keeping more money in your state have Texas running more deficits pray tell? You have absolutely NO right, as a supposed conservative, to be dictating to anyone how they want to spend their money. Playing a game for money is absolutely NONE of your business. Your own sense of “morality” is your concern and it is CERTAINLY not appropriate for a state to be legislating a game. How is anyone playing a game harming you in the slightest? Good grief. Let’s just legislate everything possible!
Gambling is sleazy? How is playing a game for money “sleazy”? If you don’t want it, don’t do it. But you have no right to tell anyone else what to do with their money.
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