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Clueless About Gambling Payoffs |
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by ML
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16 Aug 2001
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High-roller Dennis Hastert's name goes unmentioned in News-Gazette article on gambling's political influence. |
The Thursday, August 16 Champaign News-Gazette carried a front page article about the ever-expanding gambling "industry." Detailing the pervasive nature of gambling, it underlines the failure to heed the recommendations of a 1999 report by the National Gambling Impact Study Commission intended to limit the spread of gambling.. Unfortunately, readers are left pretty much in the dark about the causes of this troubling expansion of social evil and the failure of Congress to act against it.
Left completely unmentioned were recent revelations that some of the News-Gazette’s favorite top Republicans seem to be implicated as part of the problem, rather than as part of any solution, in the expansion of gambling. House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois recently raked in a cool $250,000 in dirty gambling money at a Las Vegas fund-raiser attended by major players in gambling, but this seems to be information that the News-Gazette feels that its readers don’t really need to make up their minds about what to do about expanded gambling.
That little dab ‘o cash surely wouldn’t cause Mr. Hastert to betray his conservative, family-values oriented constituency by getting cozy with gamblers, would it? Of course not and don’t you believe any of those whiny liberals when they bring this unpleasant detail up, ya hear now. There just couldn’t be any connection, could there?
Read the original article at the link below. You sure won’t hear about it in the News(sic)-Gazette. |
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http://urbana.indymedia.org/active/news/display.php3?article_id=1620
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