At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held late last month just outside the nation’s capital, Adelson time ago pledged to “spend whatever it takes” to thwart this form of competition to his casino company, which is the largest of its kind in the world in terms of revenue
Sheldon Adelson, a man with a net worth of $31 billion, has always been a long shot, but a recent poll has thrown some ice-cold water onto the infamous proposal of online poker ban.
With a 91 percent of conservatives in attendance oppose the Adelson-funded efforts to ban internet poker on the federal level, several of Adelson’s rivals have launched online gaming products in the states where it’s currently regulated. (READ SO NEW YORK, THE NEXT ONE IN THE POKER ONLINE MOOD)
A clear majority of attendees of CPAC (also the largest conservative conference in the world) see RAWA has violating states’ rights, and leaved some comments about it “Conservatives see RAWA for what it is one of the worst forms of crony capitalism in Congress today," said Andrew Langer, the President of the Institute for Liberty.
Langer added the following “RAWA is nothing short of an effort by one of the richest men in the world to ban a form of competition for his brick and mortar casino empire and everyone knows it. Worse yet, he is even willing to trample on the Constitution to do it.”
