Now, I’m not exactly a math major, but I can count to 14. It was this: “This facility was previously shut down after the Supreme Court of Alabama issued an order in September of 2022 declaring that the operation of so-called ‘electronic bingo’ was an ongoing nuisance in Lowndes County and should be abated by the Circuit Court.”

You can unsubscribe at any time.īut while announcing that the AG’s office had thwarted yet another gambling operation – this one the White Hall Entertainment Center in Lowndes County – he also included a sentence in the press release that explains just how ludicrous Giles’ position really is. In fact, he did so just Wednesday.īy clicking subscribe, you agree to our privacy policy. He’s the publicity-hungry attorney general for our state, and he would love nothing more than to shut down “illegal casinos” in every county – except, mysteriously, some casinos in Greene County – and hold press conferences and send out press releases weekly touting his grand accomplishments in doing so. If you doubt that for even a second, allow me to introduce you to Steve Marshall. If you do have some understanding of the reality of gambling in Alabama, however, you recognize immediately that a position such as Giles’ is pure fantasyland nonsense. Senate, from Mississippi Native American casinos to spout off rhetoric bemoaning the ills of gambling in Alabama. Now, I’m not necessarily saying that Giles was attempting to do the latter, but he was the head of an organization that was, prior to his tenure at the top, raking in millions of dollars, according to lobbyists who testified under oath before the U.S. Or if you’re purposefully trying to mislead people on the issue. These are good talking points, I guess, if you know next to nothing about the state of gambling – illegal or otherwise – in Alabama. In that piece, John Giles was heavily critical of efforts to legalize, regulate and properly tax gambling in Alabama, and instead insisted that the state needed only to shut down the illegal operations, not reward them. A few days ago, I read with interest an opinion piece from an anti-gambling former leader of the Christian Coalition of Alabama.

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