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01/30/2010		Online Casino Style: News Task Force Lead Caught Gambling
Home History Games News Dictionary		In an ironic twist of fate, this particular story shows that gamblers are not, in fact, all bad guys; in fact, it shows that the good guys are human, too and apparently enjoy to wager some of their own money at gambling venues they’ve sworn to take down. Online gambling has enough of its own opposition in the US, but its cousin in land-based casinos sees plenty of trouble as well with anti-gambling task forces. The tale comes to the internet casino community straight out the south, as the head of Alabama governor Bob Riley’s anti-gambling task force was found betting in Mississippi. The news was embarrassing to say the least, and came out ever so slowing, following a rumor that David Barbour had disclosed to the government that he’d won $2,300 in a jackpot, won while playing in a Mississippi casino. The news was officially broken by the local source, the Legal Schnauzer, which reported that Barbour had indeed been caught gambling in the neighboring state, on his off-time from heading up Governor Riley’s anti-gambling task force. Riley’s opposition has seen enough of it’s own heat, as his 2002 gubernatorial campaign profited by as much as $13 million from Mississippi gaming interests, a claim that the office still denies. "It has been widely reported that Riley is taking extraordinary steps to stop gambling in Alabama because he is beholden to his Mississippi Choctaw boosters," the blog notes, tongue-in-cheek. "Is it possible that Riley has been doing more than protecting the Choctaws market by scaring off competition in Alabama? Is he actively sending them business, in the form of his anti-gambling czar?"

01/30/2010

Online Casino Style: News
Task Force Lead Caught Gambling

In an ironic twist of fate, this particular story shows that gamblers are not, in fact, all bad guys; in fact, it shows that the good guys are human, too and apparently enjoy to wager some of their own money at gambling venues they’ve sworn to take down.

Online gambling has enough of its own opposition in the US, but its cousin in land-based casinos sees plenty of trouble as well with anti-gambling task forces. The tale comes to the internet casino community straight out the south, as the head of Alabama governor Bob Riley’s anti-gambling task force was found betting in Mississippi. The news was embarrassing to say the least, and came out ever so slowing, following a rumor that David Barbour had disclosed to the government that he’d won $2,300 in a jackpot, won while playing in a Mississippi casino.

The news was officially broken by the local source, the Legal Schnauzer, which reported that Barbour had indeed been caught gambling in the neighboring state, on his off-time from heading up Governor Riley’s anti-gambling task force. Riley’s opposition has seen enough of it’s own heat, as his 2002 gubernatorial campaign profited by as much as $13 million from Mississippi gaming interests, a claim that the office still denies.

"It has been widely reported that Riley is taking extraordinary steps to stop gambling in Alabama because he is beholden to his Mississippi Choctaw boosters," the blog notes, tongue-in-cheek. "Is it possible that Riley has been doing more than protecting the Choctaws market by scaring off competition in Alabama? Is he actively sending them business, in the form of his anti-gambling czar?"