Watch how our State Representatives who brought the casino plague upon us and our clueless Gaming Control Board members feel about preventing our loved ones from becoming casino gambling degenerates.
There are approximately 250 million adults living in the United States. Researchers who do not get their funding from the gaming industry estimate that there are about 2½ million pathological or addicted gamblers, 3 million problem gamblers, and about 15 million at-risk gamblers in our country. Now letâs say with the proliferation of casinos in our country, that half, a quarter, an eighth, or even a sixteenth of those numbers, have, or, are about to have, a compulsive casino gambling problem. That would mean there could be some where around 1.3 million casino gambling junkies in America. If youâre having a hard time comprehending these figures, maybe this will help. Hereâs a photograph of approximately 110,000 football fans, it would take twelve times what you see here to reach 1.3 million. Now if we throw in all the family members, friends, employers, employees, and so on, who were also affected by the compulsive casino gamblers ill-doings, wouldnât you think, that would be enough casualties for Legislators, Gaming Control Board members, and State Health officials to start addressing how casinos âBREEDâ compulsive gamblers.
Today in our House of Representatives and in our Senate there are two bills one is Rep. Paul Clymerâs HB 553 and Sen. Robert Wonderling SB 734. This legislation will make our casino operators who are already tracking their patrons' money and time spent gambling with COMP-CARDS to send monthly statements. This would enable gamblers and their family members to spot a loved one's gambling problem before it gets out of hand. (CASINO MONTHLY STATEMENTS) has been the only legislation since our Gaming Law passed that addresses the compulsive casino gambling problem before one has the problem. You can help get this legislation passed by contacting your state legislators and telling them you support SB-734 and HB-553.
Does it make you wonder why our government officials believe that an industry started in a desert over 60 years ago by gangsters, mobsters, shysters, and con-men and they didn’t called it GAMING, they called it GAMBLING is going to be beneficial to our society. And does it make you wonder why we haven’t seen CNN, the crew from 60 minutes, 20/20, Dateline, Geraldo Rivera, Bill O'Reilly or even the great Michael Moore doing any investigative reporting on this industry. I guess that’s because they know you would have a better shot of getting vital information out of the Pentagon or the Vatican.
Check out Ms. Horner bio and you will see why she’s bias towards the Gaming industry. She was hired by the Board in July 2005 to work in the Office of Chief Counsel assigned to the Bureau of Licensing. In September 2006, Ms. Horner was named the Board’s first Director of the Office of Compulsive and Problem Gambling. She is involved in the National Council on Problem Gambling’s Task Force on Self-Exclusion and a national Exploratory Committee on Responsible Gaming Programs. Ms. Horner has been involved in the gaming industry, as an attorney, since 1996 with experience in providing advice to tribal, state and foreign governments and industry clients; evaluating casino gaming in new jurisdictions; and working with government and industry representatives in the United States and in other countries. She is an adjunct professor of law at Rutgers University School of Law-Camden where she teaches Casino Law.
For over twenty years I've been addressing and proving that there are major flaws in gaming laws throughout our country. In other words, there is no safeguards or provisions in place that will protect today's casino gamblers and future casino gamblers from becoming what I once was. Casinos are operating like amusement parks with no safety belts or cages on their ride. There is absolutely no consumer protection.
Bill Kearney on CN8 2005
Check out Sen. Orieâs testimony on SB-1088. She supports the bill but has some concerns and is disappointed that the Senate did not include additional gaming reform in SB-1088 that overwhelming passed as amendments in the House which was included in SB-711. She supports these amendments but only one amendment addressed compulsive casino gambling. This amendment would make our Gaming operators put up twenty 1-800 GAMBLER get help signs throughout their casinos. This along with the other high-tech safeguards and provisions that are Gaming Law makes our casinos operators provide things like pamphlets and posters to educate about gambling addiction, a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week hotline that provides crisis counseling, and a self-exclusion program that problem gamblers can put themselves on address the obsessive casino gambling problem after one becomes addicted. So my question has always been, why wait until someone gets addicted? Hereâs the tools that Gov. Rendell and our legislators given our casino operators to seduce their prey. 24/7 gambling, Free booze, Check cashing, Smoking areas inside, Comping and now interest free Credit. Can you think of any other industry in our country that operates in the same fashion? This week our House members will have another chance to save individuals and families in Pennsylvania from being destroyed by a compulsive casino addiction. All they have to do is vote YES this time for Rep. Clymer amendment on TABLE GAME legislation in SB-1088. His amendment will make our gaming operators, who already have in place with their REWARD/COMP CARDS a tracking system that enables them to send their patrons monthly statements showing their money and time spent gambling?
The Pa. Gaming Control Board shall have the power and its duties shall be to: Require that each licensed gaming entity that offers patrons "Total Rewards Cards" that track the amount of money and time spent gambling in order to determine the value of provisions or complimentary services received by patrons to issue monthly statements that list the patron's gaming winnings and losses.
Check out Ms. Horner bio and you will see why she’s bias towards the Gaming industry. She was hired by the Board in July 2005 to work in the Office of Chief Counsel assigned to the Bureau of Licensing. In September 2006, Ms. Horner was named the Board’s first Director of the Office of Compulsive and Problem Gambling. She is involved in the National Council on Problem Gambling’s Task Force on Self-Exclusion and a national Exploratory Committee on Responsible Gaming Programs. Ms. Horner has been involved in the gaming industry, as an attorney, since 1996 with experience in providing advice to tribal, state and foreign governments and industry clients; evaluating casino gaming in new jurisdictions; and working with government and industry representatives in the United States and in other countries. She is an adjunct professor of law at Rutgers University School of Law-Camden where she teaches Casino Law.
Check out how confident the former 'PGCB' Chairman Tad Decker was in 2006 when he testified before the Pa. House Republican Policy Committee, again this was before any Pa. Gaming licensees where issued.
Rep. Bill DeWeese House Bill 21. This legislation will allow table games in all Pennsylvania casinos.
Pa. Representative, had the opportunity to save individuals and families in Pennsylvania from being destroyed by a compulsive casino addiction. All they had to do is vote YES for Rep. Clymer amendment on our TABLE GAME legislation. Rep. Clymerâs amendment will make our gaming operators, who already have in place with their REWARD/COMP CARDS, a tracking system that enables them to send their patrons monthly statements showing their money and time spent gambling? This would enable not only the gamblers but also their family members to spot a loved one's gambling problem before it gets out of hand. This legislation has been put forth in our House and in our Senate in the last three sessions and has been the only legislation since our Gaming Law passed that addresses the compulsive casino gambling problem BEFORE one has the problem.
Senator Corman a few months later has no recollection of legislation that would make our casino operators send monthly statements. Rep. Frank Dermody (D) like most Democrats he voted for our Gaming Bill.
Watch how our State Representatives who brought the casino plague upon us and our clueless Gaming Control Board members feel about preventing our loved ones from becoming casino gambling degenerates.
This video just proves once more that Governor Rendell is clueless on how casinos operate.
Listen to Pa. Rep. Dante Santoni, says HUMUNAH HUMUNAH, when asked the question of what our casino operators are doing, that addresses the compulsive casino gambling problem, BEFORE, not AFTER one has the problem. The reason both Representatives couldn't answered the question is because there is no CONSUMER PROTECTION in our Gaming Law that addresses the compulsive casino gambling problem, BEFORE, not AFTER one has the problem. Now if Iâm wrong then please enlighten me.
Two years later and neither the 'NAACP' nor Jerry Mondesire newspaper have addressed the negative impact that casinos will have on the African American communities of our state.
Meanwhile the BREEDING goes on. While House Republicans weary about the weaknesses in the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board's licensing practices individuals and families are being destroyed.
Pennsylvanians who think like Rep. Wansacz better wake up and smell the gaming stanch that’s coming out of Harrisburg, because this stanch isn’t the circus or carnival coming to town once or twice a year, casinos are going to be here generation after generation. When you make a vice like casino gambling available and legal its only human nature, it will be abused. We have given our casino operators Carte Blanche to destroy individuals and families, and what sickens me is how many of you refuse to address this fact and the fact that way to many of our government officials are in bed with the casino industry and now they are as addicted to casino gambling as I was, and could care less about the wellbeing of the citizens of Pennsylvania.
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