Casinos, gambling and politics

Casino News Media received the following...

An expansive, above-the-fold A1 story in the NYT highlights John McCain's "many ties" to the gambling industry, illustrating with an accompanying graphic that contributions from gambling interests to McCain's campaign are double those made to Barack Obama. McCain is a "lifelong gambler" and "one of the founding fathers of Indian gaming," according to a professor and "leading Indian gambling expert." More than 40 of McCain's advisers and fundraisers have worked for "an array of gambling interests" ranging from Las Vegas casinos to online poker purveyors. The only comment the Times received from the McCain campaign was a hostile suggestion that the story would "insinuate impropriety on the part of Senator McCain where none exists" and "gamble away" its remaining credibility.

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