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Arizona Senator Makes Fourth Attempt to Ban Online Gambling Senator Jon Kyle, a Republican from Arizona, is once more attempting to pass legislation to prohibit internet online gambling. This is the fourth time that Senator Kyle has attempted to do so, but the Senator claims that 2006 will be the year in which internet online gambling will finally be wiped off the map. Sen. Kyle, who has called internet online gambling the “crack cocaine” of the gambling industry, started his campaign to ban internet online gambling in 1997. However, the bill failed to pass both houses of the legislature. Many say that the bill failed because of all the exemptions it contained. Kyle granted exemptions to many industries, including the politically influential Indian Casino sector, the horse racing sector, and other powerful special interests. Generally, when an anti- internet online gambling contains so many exceptions, the Religious Right rises up against it, and, with characteristic lack of willingness to find a middle ground, works hard to defeat the bill because it does not ban all internet online gambling. However, Senator Kyle’s current bill would attack internet online gambling by prohibiting U.S.- based financial institutions from doing business with offshore online gambling firms, although many people predict that the online gambling firms would simply find a way around this.
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