Contact your Congressmen to save offshore gambling

[Romanowski]

The key provisions of the Goodlatte Bill are to:

1. Expand the Wire Act to apply to all games of chance, such as poker, blackjack, backgammon, bingo and any other casino game, as well to cover lotteries. This is a "legislative reversal" of the Fifth Circuit's ruling of In Re MasterCard case in which the Wire Act was held to be limited to sports gambling, and not cover any other forms of gambling.

2. Exempt from the Wire Act the types of games offered by sponsors where entry into the games are free to the customers and the only prize is to participate in a contest by the sponsor

3. Exempt from the Wire Act "fantasy sports" involving fictional teams, etc.

4. Expand the jurisdictional application of the Wire Act to cover (1) anywhere in the United States, (2) any State or Indian Tribe, or (3) any United States territory.

5. Further expand the jurisdictional application of the Wire Act to cover situations where a bet is placed or received from (1) anywhere in the United States or a territory of the United States, (2) from the maritime jurisdiction of the United States, or (3) to or from any place outside the jurisdiction of any nation (i.e., Sealand or Antarctica or the Moon).

6. Raises the penalty for violations of the Wire Act from two years, to five years.

7. Expands the criminal acts under the law to include any business that uses electronic payment systems of any type (credit cards, wires, checks) in furtherance of a bet made illegal under the new Wire Act, a new twist on the Leach/Kyl bills.

8. Provides a "carve out" or "exemption" for three big special interest groups: (a) Intrastate remote gambling (all occuring within a state that authorizes such gambling), (b) Tribal gambling, and (c) the Horse Racing Industry. All remote gambling under the IHA is exempt from the Wire Act under this proposed legislation.

[Romanowski]

This is a link to Goodlatte's web site on this topic.

http://www.house.gov/goodlatte/internetgambling109.htm

Here is a link to the last time this came up for a vote on the House floor. Click here to see how your Representative voted:

http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote....rollnumber=404

Remember, everyone has two Senators and one Representative. Contact all three and tell them you vote and you are opposed to H.R. 4777: The Internet Gambling Prohibition Act and any companion bill that has yet to be brought in the Senate. For a representative who has no opinion on this matter, 50 calls to his office could make a big difference.

How to contact your Senator and Representative:

For your Representative in the House,
http://www.house.gov/writerep/

For your Senator,
http://www.senate.gov/general/contac...nators_cfm.cfm

[Romanowski]

Goodlatte's bill also mandates they spend $40,000,000 of American's tax dollars fighting this heinous crime. Good thing this country is in such sound financial shape.

Tell your representative in Congress what you think of that!

[Dr. Jack]

good post

[bluesky8921]

Originally Posted by Romanowski

Goodlatte's bill also mandates they spend $40,000,000 of American's tax dollars fighting this heinous crime. Good thing this country is in such sound financial shape.

Tell your representative in Congress what you think of that!

that is one of the most horse shit things I have ever seen.
what a waste of our $

[jaypasco]

its all over

[Romanowski]

Eventually we may all have to open offshore bank accounts to tip toe arround this

[robertg]

would the exemption for tribal gaming mean that we could use sia, wagerstreet, books located on reservations.

[Romanowski]

Originally Posted by robertg

would the exemption for tribal gaming mean that we could use sia, wagerstreet, books located on reservations.

not sure

contact your congressman!!! takes 5 mins

[cman]

http://www.yahoo.com/s/273659

wde

[Gerk]

The fact that both sponsors are from Virginia makes me think Shark's betting patterns may have initiated this action

[cman]

leave it to Va to screw things up...kind of leads credence to the topic in the basement for Va being the crap state

wde

[Gerk]

The funny thing is the Mafia and organized crime would hold a parade in the streets if this kind of legislation is passed

Not only spending whatever they are to do this, but the increased costs of policing organized crime that would gladly step in to pick up the slack

[cman]

Originally Posted by Gerk

The funny thing is the Mafia and organized crime would hold a parade in the streets if this kind of legislation is passed

Not only spending whatever they are to do this, but the increased costs of policing organized crime that would gladly step in to pick up the slack

of course....that is the same argument the liberals use for keeping abortion legal...that there would be backyard abortions

wde

[Dr. Jack]

Originally Posted by Romanowski

Eventually we may all have to open offshore bank accounts to tip toe arround this

You think? Every year there is some kind of bill like this. It never goes anywhere and I doubt it every will.

With that being said it still can't hurt to contact your rep!