Apple pie & poker: Wexler extols card game at gambling lobby convention
by Michael C. Bender | July 22nd, 2009
Wexler, center, with former U.S. Senator and current Poker Players Alliance Chairman Al D'Amato, left, are interviewed for an episode of WSOP TV in 2007. Photo via pokerati.com.
U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton, helped kickoff the gaming industry’s National Poker Week in Washington on Monday urging the state directors of the Poker Players Alliance to visit their local congressmen back home. From Poker News Daily:
Wexler called the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) … an “absurd law” and labeled Congressmen Barney Frank an “important ally.” He then hit up the buffet to grab a snack before exiting with a staff member.
Wexler has long been a favorite among poker enthusiasts, partly due the Skill Game Protection Act, his proposal to legalize online poker.
The Boca Raton Democrat reportedly was welcomed with a “mountain of applause” when he appeared at the 2007 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Wexler also issued the traditional “shuffle up & deal” command to kick-off the 2008 World Series of Poker at the Rio.
Wexler, who collected nearly $70,000 from casinos and the gambling industry in 2008-09 - among his top contributors that election cycle, calls poker “as American as apple pie” in this 2008 interview with PokerNews.com:
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July 22nd, 2009 at 7:31 am
Wexler is a sham. What does he care if the gambling industry comes into florida and sets up like a bad trailer park? He doesn’t live here. He’s just looking for his kickback from the gaming industry like the rest of the scumbags in Tallahassee and Washington. And by the looks of his gut he knows his way around a buffet spread.
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:50 am
Why don’t you redneck’s go back to the swamp lands were you belong. Gambling is needed here. The money that the state can get (as long as it stays out of the politicians pockets” could truly help out this state
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
There is nothing wrong with gambling in
this state especially if it helps close some of the budget. The thing that
is wrong-is Robert the idiot Wexler being involved in anyway. The man is a
total imbecile and how people in Florida
vote for him is beyond me. Just keep all
the Politicans out of the Gambling business and things will be fine. The
minute Politicians get involved-things
go down hill. I have better odds at the
casino’s than I do trusting the Politicians in this state.
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