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| Gambling Interviews (Opinion-Leaders) | ||
| Spoke With |
Title |
Extract |
Fahrenkopf, Frank  |
President
American Gaming Association |
"The Arthur Anderson study was important - not only to show that there's a tremendous, positive financial impact to businesses and to state and local jurisdictions by way of taxation - but that [gambling] is not cannibalizing other businesses as the opponents have said for so many years." ...more |
Grey, Thomas |
Heads
the National Coalition Against Gambling Expansion |
"James Bond is not standing in line with a blonde on his arm waiting to buy his Quick Pick ticket. This is preying on those people who can least afford it." ...more |
Lockyer, Bill
|
Senate
President in California |
"Lottery revenues... seem to depend on massive advertising budgets. It's sponsored gambling. Many of us think that's an inappropriate message to be coming from government." ...more |
Lanni, J.Terrence
|
CEO MGM Grand |
"Ten years from now, the issue of gaming won't be an issue.....There will be little difference between a major motion picture studio, a hotel/casino, an entertainment casino, a nongaming resort. It's going to be much more acceptable." ...more |
Pico, Anthony
|
Chairman
of the Viejas Indians |
"[Gambling revenues] will guarantee us a place in the future for the children that are not yet born. It feels good to know that that will happen. We were an endangered species." ...more |
Rosenthal, Lefty
|
Played by
Robert De Niro in "Casino" |
"99.9% of the public, including myself, have two chances: One is slim and the other is none-_and Slim is out of town." ...more |
Thompson, William
|
Professor
in Nevada gambling industry |
"Politicians are greedy for what they consider to gambling tax like money falling off trees. It's not. It's money that comes out of people's pockets." ...more |
Walters, Dan
|
Political
columnist for Sacramento Bee |
"...In back of all this is an assumption that one way or the other, casino gambling is coming to California - big time casino gambling. And if it comes, the potential of it is unimaginable. Can you imagine gambling on Catalina Island? It could be the new Monte Carlo." ...more |
Interactive
Gaming Council |
Furlong,
Keith Deputy Executive Director |
"As the IGC has evolved, the association has recognized the need to provide industry members with an accreditation that the public will recognize and trust." ...more |
| Interactive
Gaming Council |
Rick
Smith Executive Director |
"A key mission of the IGC is to promote an environment where there is an absence of fraud, both fraud by players as well as operators," ...more |