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With casinos slated to open in neighboring Philadelphia, Delaware legislators are left pondering how to deal with their own gambling and casinos issues.
Facilities for gambling and casinos contributed $199.6 million into Delaware’s state coffers in 2005, and are expected to put in at least $205 million in 2006. However, lawmakers wonder how the expansion of legalized gambling and casinos in its closest neighbor to the north will affect Delaware’s own revenues.
The Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council had predicted that up to $5 million in gambling and casinos revenue will be lost to Pennsylvania next year, with that number jumping to $32 million in 2008.
“DEFAC’s analysis is based on where the patrons live who cash tickets that were taxable,†said lobbyist Robert L. Byrd, the panel’s chairman.
Governor Ruth Ann Miller plans to sign legislation that would allow the state’s racetracks stay open longer, and feature more types of gaming. She believes that these measures will stem the tide of revenue loss in the coming years.
However, Delaware- based lobbyists for the gambling and casinos industry say that this will not be sufficient; they advocate building new casinos in Wilmington, or legalizing new forms of gambling.
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All of Washington D.C., aflutter with news of corrupt lobbyist and casino consultant Jack Abramoff’s indictment, has been rushing to make sure to clean their hands of guilt by association.
As many as 20 Congressmen and Congresswomen and their aides may have been involved in Abramoff’s scheme to extort money from Indian casinos by posing as a do- gooder casino consultant while actually stealing millions of dollars.
The list of politicians who received funds from the disgraced casino consultant goes all the way to the very top. President Bush, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and DeLay’s successor Roy Blunt all received campaign donations, which they will return in full or in part.
The Bush-Cheney 2004 re-election campaign received $100,000 in funds raised by the casino consultant, who was a close associate of the duo. Yesterday, President Bush announced plans to give back only $6,000 of that sum- the $6,000 that his aides have determined was contributed by Abramoff more or less directly.
The Bush administration has decided to return only $6,000 of the Abramoff- tainted contributions because, as a senior spokesperson put it, “At this point, there is nothing to indicate that contributions from [the rest of the donors] represents anything other than enthusiastic support for the (Bush-Cheney) 04 re-election campaign.â€
DeLay announced that he will give an unspecified portion of the campaign contributions he received from casino consultant to charity. Blunt will also return funds; he will give all of the $8,500 he received from Abramoff over a period of four years to charity.
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