Apple pie & poker: Wexler extols card game at gambling lobby convention
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 by Michael C. Bender
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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