The addition of Warner\u2019s voice to the small political cry for a reinterpretation of the Wire Act is notable primarily because he’s a Democrat. Online gaming antagonists have so far\u00a0been almost exclusively Republicans, backed by Las Vegas Sands chairman and internet gambling foe Adelson.<\/p>\n
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Despite his different political persuasion, however, Warner has the familiar rhetoric of the pro-RAWA (Restoration of America\u2019s Wire Act) brigade down pat. Ironically, regulated gambling has been the one thing that’s largely addressed all the concerns of those who rail against playing online and the possible dangers it presents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Even with Warner adding a small bipartisan twist to RAWA\u2019s lackluster reception to date (despite Adelson throwing millions at its passage) American supporters of regulated online gambling probably shouldn’t be overly concerned. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t pay attention.<\/p>\n
The bill\u2019s supporters, including Pennsylvania Representative Charlie Dent (R), have turned to trying to insert the failed legislation through the back door by tagging it onto a larger must-pass appropriations bill, a tactic that worked, in another time and form, for the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) of 2006, which was similarly inserted into a Safe Port act and thus sailed through.<\/p>\n
It was that act that made it illegal for any payment processor to accept or cash out online gambling transactions, a reality that took a tremendous push to turn around, even with specific states making internet play entirely legal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has written to US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, requesting that he review the DOJ\u2019s 2011 interpretation of the Wire Act. That’s the legal opinion that the 1961 act applied only to sports betting, not the as-yet-to-exist realities of online poker and internet casinos to which it was applied prior to that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":54459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,60,13,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia Joins Pro-RAWA Chorus<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n