VIRGINIA GAMBLING HYPOCRITES

City attorney Harvey Bryant says that we won't know if it is illegal until we charge someone. I am going to blame Mayor Sessoms for this outrage because he is the big cheese whether he started this boondoggle or not. So off they go and raid and confisticate property of business owners (that have purchase business licenses, business names, and pay property taxes on their business equipment and have met zoning laws of their business) and essentially fired all of their employees in a time of depression/recession.

TWO types of LOTTERY are LEGAL in VIRGINIA. BINGO is LEGAL in VIRGINIA. OFF-TRACK BETTING PARLORS are LEGAL in VIRGINIA. The esteemed Virginia Pilot is telling it's readers that gambling is illegal in Virginia. Another form of the media you can no longer trust to report the simple truth - the proof is in the pudding.

Del. Clay Athey, R-Front Royal sponsored a bill H81010 to crack down on forms of gambling. Athey said that his bill was meant to prohibit people making wagers and having the chance to win money at the same location????? This man lives a very sheltered life. He has never heard of or been to Camden Downs betting parlors, 7-11 and associates (lotteries and scratch tickets) or his local church that runs the nightly Bingo games. By the way - who wants GOVERNMENT telling me or you how to run our lives?

Since GAMBLING IS LEGAL in Virginia as proof of STATE-SPONSORED gambling activities what is the real problem? Taxing gambling profits from various forms of gambling? The solution of course is simply to pass tax laws that allows the state to get their "cut". The state already does that with their current gambling dens of sin. Somehow we are being spoon-fed this garbage that we are not responsible and knowledgeable citizens - adults. We are mere irresponsible minors (children) that the NANNY STATE must take care of and protect.

How about the NANNY STATE get out their checkbook and balance it - like adults do? How about the NANNY STATE fix our transportation problems like adults would? Since they cannot fix what we sent them to office to fix they want to tell us what to do and how to do it - GET OUT OF MY FACE.

The state needs to legalize every sort of gambling so that we can create jobs here in the Commonwealth vice shipping our citizens off on bus trips so that they can gamble and spend their money in other states. Stop legislating your morality on my freedom of choice. Hey, the money could be spent on fixing the Hampton Roads and Northern Virginia transportation problem.