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FitNews.com, a site that purports to expose the “unfair” and “unbalanced” in South Carolina politics, has blasted Republican Senator Lindsey Graham along with Governor Nikki Haley for their sponsorship of a bill to prohibit online gambling at the federal level. This is an excellent piece exposing what really lies behind their efforts.
The bill in question is being pushed along by casino magnate and mega GOP donor Sheldon Adelson, who says he will “spend whatever it takes to ensure online gambling is not legalized in the US”. Of course it already is legal in some states including New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware but Adelson wants to stop that as well.
Enter Graham, who conveniently received a sweet campaign donation from the Camp Adelson.
Fit News writes with some degree of sarcasm:
We’ve got no beef with Adelson, obviously. He’s simply making an investment in the future of his increasingly outdated business model.
No, our beef is with the politicians taking his cash – politicians like U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (RINO-S.C.).
Last month we wrote about Graham’s support for a federal online poker ban – which we’re sure has absolutely nothing to do with the money Adelson is pouring into South Carolina on his behalf.
Now enter Nikki Haley, the Republican Governor of South Carolina.
And here is where it gets really ugly.
Really, governor? What about the state-sponsored gaming monopoly you sanction? Or the blind eye you turned to a video poker ring in your home county?
Anyway …
One of the “bag men” for special interest money in South Carolina is none other than former S.C. Republican Party chairman Katon Dawson – whose top-heavy consulting operation we wrote about HERE.
Dawson is reportedly the man in charge of a big chunk of Adelson-related largesse – which he has been entrusted to employ on behalf of Graham and Haley’s reelection bids.
What is Dawson doing for his cut?
Ummmm …
He’s “defending” Haley – whose allies just launched a vicious attack ad on Democratic gubernatorial nominee Vincent Sheheen – from a half-negative ad launched by “independent Republican” gubernatorial candidate Tom Ervin.
“If I was Tom and I was looking for some excitement, I wouldn’t run as an independent for governor in a Republican state,” Dawson told pro-establishment reporter Peter Hamby of CNN. “He’d be better off if he bought a new sports car and got a girlfriend and got it out of his system.”
- Christopher Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher
