Gaming industry to launch outreach initiative for presidential campaign
By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal
The American Gaming Association will launch a national initiative in conjunction with the 2016 presidential campaign aimed at showing the industry’s economic benefits to candidates for the nation’s highest office.
The effort, dubbed “Gaming Votes,” is twofold — to educate casino industry employees, vendors and other stakeholders on candidate positions on gaming, and to ensure candidates understand the industry’s economic contributions.
The organization wants to make gaming issues a topic for discussion during the campaign and change “false” perceptions about the casino industry.
During a presentation on the effort in Las Vegas on Thursday, the association cited a new Oxford Economics report on the broad base of jobs gaming companies provide and diversity in the industry’s workforce.
“Gaming Votes”. Perfect. The politicians have been gaming us for years.
You can guess who will loose this bet.
The Supreme Court says money equals free speech. Whatever money the gaming industry spends will surely be to “educate”.