Thursday, September 3, 2015
SPORTS BETTING ! What HYPOCRISY not in New Jersey In a 2-to-1 vote, a three-judge panel on the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in in Philadelphia has ruled against the authorization of sports gambling in New Jersey. Lets look at the history of sports betting NJ...In 1992, Senator Bill Bradley sponsored a bill that allowed sports betting to be grand fathered for the 3 or 4 states that had sports betting or previously had sports betting. All the other states got an 18 month window to make sports betting legal within their state. NJ legislature did not pass sports betting within that 18 month window. Years ago, I was on a TV show with Howard Cossell (ABC Sports Beat). The topic was: Does the media encourage the public to gamble? David Stern, NBA commissioner said: "We don't want the week's grocery money to be bet on the outcome of a particular sporting event" What a change===== On Dec. 11, 2009, commissioner David Stern told SI.com (the web site for Sports Illustrated) that legalized gambling on the NBA "May be a huge opportunity" Last year New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Goes to court to win the right to become the fifth state to allow sports betting, Yet the N.B.A. joined the N.C.A.A., the N.F.L., the N.H.L., and Major League Baseball filed a motion for a temporary restraining order in an effort to halt legalized sports betting in New Jersey. in the suit against New Jersey, contending that sports betting in New Jersey would corrupt sports in the United States. NOW == N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver: Allow Gambling on Pro Games NOW NBA commissioner Adam Silver wants New Jersey governor Chris Christie to work with the league on expanding sports betting, according to ABC News. "Governor Christie, and I'm happy to join him, should turn his attention to Washington, D.C., to Congress, and say, 'Here are all the reasons it should be regulated, but let's come up with a framework that makes sense on a national basis presumably that would allow states to opt in,'" Silver said.==="If you have a gentleman's bet or a small wager on any kind of sports contest, it makes you that much more engaged in it," Silver said. "That's where we're going to see it pay dividends." We are also hearing that if we legalize sports betting we will stop the illegal sports betting in the state. We know it can't true ! But what we do know is that if you add a new form of gambling more people try it and some of those people will become addicted. The proof to that test is that we heard that when lottery came into effect we were going to stop the illegal numbers games. In fact that never happened. One of the reasons are that you can still get credit from a "runner" when you play an illegal number, and today some stores that sell lottery tickets, still allow known players to run up a tab and pay when they can. In fact, when I was the executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of NJ (1986-1994) we did a survey that Gallup conducted for us. Two of the questions on the survey were: Have you ever played illegal numbers? 31% of the respondents said "yes". Second question was: Do you play legal lottery in the state of NJ. 81% said "yes". JUST GIVE THEM A PIECE OF THE ACTION !!!! AND ITS OK NEED HELP FOR GAMBLING ADDICTION CALL 888 LAST BET CALL ARNIE 954 5015270 WANT A COPY OF OUR BOOK E MAIL ME YOUR MAILING ADDRESS
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