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18 May 2006
A bill being pushed by Senator Max Malone of Louisiana would allow voters in one precinct of Bossier Parish to hold a referendum on whether to ban video poker gambling. Malone described it as a move to allow anti-gambling residents to get rid of gambling in their neighborhoods.
Malone had hoped that this bill would appease people on both sides of the gambling fence, but to no avail. An opposing senator decided that this bill was too risky and could lead to too much of an ambiguous stance on gambling in the area. Senator Rob Marionneaux said the measure would set a dangerous precedent leading to a whole mixture of different gambling laws around the state, precinct by precinct. Another senator who voiced his disapproval said that the bill was pro gambling because it could lead to other precincts holding votes that would result in their allowing video poker, expanding gambling statewide.
At this stage the Senate did not vote to pass or reject the gambling bill. It was decided, instead by senators voting 27-to-6 to send the bill to a judiciary committee chaired by Marionneaux. The future of gambling in the United States is a gray area all over the nation and many senators are scared to come out as too pro on the issue in case the online gambling ban law will be passed.
A bill being pushed by Senator Max Malone of Louisiana would allow voters in one precinct of Bossier Parish to hold a referendum on whether to ban video poker gambling. Malone described it as a move to allow anti-gambling residents to get rid of gambling in their neighborhoods.
Malone had hoped that this bill would appease people on both sides of the gambling fence, but to no avail. An opposing senator decided that this bill was too risky and could lead to too much of an ambiguous stance on gambling in the area. Senator Rob Marionneaux said the measure would set a dangerous precedent leading to a whole mixture of different gambling laws around the state, precinct by precinct. Another senator who voiced his disapproval said that the bill was pro gambling because it could lead to other precincts holding votes that would result in their allowing video poker, expanding gambling statewide.
At this stage the Senate did not vote to pass or reject the gambling bill. It was decided, instead by senators voting 27-to-6 to send the bill to a judiciary committee chaired by Marionneaux. The future of gambling in the United States is a gray area all over the nation and many senators are scared to come out as too pro on the issue in case the online gambling ban law will be passed.
