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Reply To: Revelation: Internet Poker is the Crack Cocaine of Online Gambling

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fintan
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Man, that’s hilarious. Nobody takes this guy seriously, right? Grandstanding attention-hogs like this don’t actually have supporters, right?

/sarcasm

Anyway, I know Wikipedia isn’t the most reliable source in the world, but all the same, let’s see what it has to say about Rep. Bachus:

“On November 4, 1999, Bachus voted in favor of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act,[3] which some economists, including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, believe helped create the 2007 financial crisis. …

“Bachus is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online poker. In 2006, he cosponsored H.R. 4411, the Goodlatte-Leach Internet Gambling Prohibition Act[6] and H.R. 4777, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act.[7] In 2008, he opposed H.R. 5767, the Payment Systems Protection Act (a bill that sought to place a moratorium on enforcement of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act while the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve defined “unlawful Internet gambling”).”