Bob Riley’s Hypocrisy Says Alabama's AG Commissioner

Rickey Stokes

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Posted by: RStokes
thehoustonnewspaper@yahoo.com
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Date: Nov 05 2009 11:08 PM

Statement from Ron Sparks

 

Sparks Condemns Riley’s Hypocrisy on Gambling

 

 

 

I want to commend Bill Johnson for revealing Bob Riley’s hypocrisy on gambling.  Johnson’s admission that Riley took millions of dollars from Mississippi casinos to protect their market share, confirms testimony already on record from Senator John McCain’s Senate Committee.

 

“It is time to stop playing politics with the casino issue.  As Governor, I will fight for statewide regulation, taxation of gaming for the benefit of schools and Medicaid, and the development of casinos to bring badly needed jobs to Alabama.  The protection of the Mississippi casino market, has cost Alabama hundreds of millions of dollars and its time for that to end.  As Governor, I will stand up for the people of Alabama and not the casino owners in Mississippi.”

 

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