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Frank Fahrenkopf is President of the American Gaming Association
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"The Arthur Anderson study was important -- not only to show that there's a tremendous, positive financial impact to businesses and to state and local jurisdictions by way of taxation -- but that [gambling] is not cannibalizing other businesses as the opponents have said for so many years."
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Reverend Thomas Grey heads the National Coalition Against Gambling Expansion
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"James Bond is not standing in line with a blonde on his arm waiting to buy his Quick Pick ticket. This is preying on those people who can least afford it."
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J. Terrence Lanni is CEO of MGM Grand
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"Ten years from now, the issue of gaming won't be an issue.....There will be little difference between a major motion picture studio, a hotel/casino, an entertainment casino, a nongaming resort. It's going to be much more acceptable."
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Bill Lockyer is the Senate President in California
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"Lottery revenues... seem to depend on massive advertising budgets.
It's sponsored gambling. Many of us think that's an inappropriate message to be coming from government."
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Anthony Pico is chairman of the Viejas Indians
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"[Gambling revenues] will guarantee us a place in the future for the children that are not yet born. It feels good to know that that will happen. We were an endangered species."
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Lefty Rosenthal is a former Las Vegas entrepreneur who was played by Robert De Niro in the movie "Casino." Rosenthal now runs a bar in Florida.
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"99.9% of the public, including myself, have two chances: One is slim and the other is none--and Slim is out of town."
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William Thompson is a professor at the U. of Nevada, Las Vegas and studies the gambling industry.
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"Politicians are greedy for what they consider to gambling tax like money falling off trees. It's not. It's money that comes out of people's pockets."
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Dan Walters is a political columnist for the Sacramento Bee
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"...In back of all this is an assumption that one way or the other, casino gambling is coming to California - big time casino gambling. And if it comes, the potential of it is unimaginable. Can you imagine gambling on Catalina Island? It could be the
new Monte Carlo."
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