The Legislature and Bingo
April 17, 2008
Last week I called and left messages with almost all of the members of the Senate Tourism and Marketing Committee to get their thoughts on the bingo bill that had been introduced by Sen. Harri Anne Smith. I followed up with e-mails to the committee members whose addresses were on the State Legislature Web site.
None of them responded to either the phone calls or the e-mails, except one. Sen. Charles Bishop called a few days later and talked about electronic bingo in Walker County. Of course the bingo bill has been pulled now, but Bishop’s take was interesting. I’m working on a story for early next week. Bishop told me that he believes those who support the bingo center at Country Crossing won’t be supporting it 2 years from now based on his experience. I told him that what the County Commission said it wants to do is to prevent the widespread proliferation of electronic bingo machines that invaded his county. He sees it differently.
Check back for more on my conversation with Sen. Bishop
