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Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society Rallies Against Casino Bill to Ban Online Poker in Mass.Tue, Mar 18th, 2008 @ 12:00am Today, Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson, founder of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society and the founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, authored an article in the Boston Herald asking who is behind the "strange provision" in Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick's Casino bill to make it illegal for state residents to play poker online, with penalties ranging from hefty fines up to US$25,000 and jail time of up to two years. He determined it was not lawyers for Sands Casinos in Las Vegas who helped craft the provision, courtesy of a March 6 reply from Sheldon Adelson, the powerful chairman of the Sands, who "To my delight he offered to help encourage its separation from the bill. So it seems not to be the casino interests who stand behind the criminalization provision." Nesson also "spoke with the governor's spokesperson on the casino bill. He surprised me by being completely unaware of the criminalization provision. Obviously this was not something high on the governor's agenda." He reported, "In the meantime, Kyle Sullivan, the governor's press secretary, accused me in print of being ill informed about the bill. So I wrote him and said, "As one who is well informed, would you please clarify who wrote the bill and how the criminalization provision got in there?" There has been no reply as yet." INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW Nesson says that he keeps "sending letters to Daniel O'Connell in the Office of Economic Development, to John Hall the president of Suffolk Downs, the state's largest race track, to George Carney, who owns the dog track in Raynham." He says he will keep writing letters and pressing the issue until he gets an answer. "Who wrote the bill's strange provision to criminalize online games? The governor's people say it wasn't him (even though it's nominally his bill). The Las Vegas casino interests say it's not them. So who put it in there? Who stands behind it now? Perhaps both questions will be put to the governor today, at the Legislature's public hearing. Inquiring minds want to know." Egaming Review reports that the Boston Herald also noted that Nesson and student members of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society will stage a protest rally today against Governor Deval Patrick's casino plan. "But while most opponents, ranging from church leaders to social activists, will be warning of the perils of expanded gambling, the Harvard group will be arguing there is not nearly enough." Read Related Articles:
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