Online Gambling Supporter
Appointed as Senator in Florida
 August
31 - The ongoing cause to legalise and regulate
online gambling
in the United States
received a big shot in the arm last week
after Charlie Crist, the Governor of Florida, appointed
George LeMieux,
a
long-time supporter of legalised and regulated online gambling
in the United States, as the
state Senator.
LeMieux's appointment should bode well
for the state of Florida which, like most states in America, has
been hard hit by the current economic recession.
LeMieux has reportedly been working with Governor Crist for some
time to expand gambling operations in the state,
in order to generate much-needed tax revenues.
One of the long-term projects the duo has been working on is to
forge a gambling compact with Florida's Seminole Indians,
which is also designed to help generate additional revenues for
the cash-strapped state. Since the economic downturn,
tourism - one of Florida's largest revenue generators - has
dropped off sharply.
LeMieux is also a supporter of Rep. Barney Frank,
the biggest government supporter of legalised and regulated
online gambling in the United States. And now that he is a
Senator,
LeMieux is also free to voice his pro-online gambling opinions
in the U.S. Senate,
and push for the current online gambling ban to be repealed.
He will also be an important supporter of legislation introduced
by New Jersey Senator, Robert Menendez, and that of Frank that
is proposing that online poker and online gambling be allowed
and regulated in that United States.
Millions of U.S. online gambling fans are currently fed up that
they are not free to gamble online.
With George W. Bush and his cronies finally out of the White
House, and
the dynamic
Obama Administration poised to put America back on track,
there is a new hope that - like in the UK and many other
forward-thinking countries -
online gambling can become a legal, respectable and taxed
pastime in America.
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