AG of Massachusetts Against Online Poker
Published: Sunday, September 06, 2009 Online-Casinos.com
Martha Coakley, the Attorney General for Massachusetts, announced this week she would run for the US Senate seat that is available now that Ted Kennedy has passed away. Ms.Coakley was riddled with questions by reporters after the announcement that questioned her ability to continue as Attorney General while campaigning. The reporters seemed to imply that perhaps her political ambitions would be her new focus rather than doing her job as Attorney General.
Coakley told the Boston Herald, "I will stay involved" adding,"I have been and will remain involved in the major decisions in the office."
As the Attorney General she prevented an intrastate online poker bill from advancing to the ballot and declared online gambling in all forms illegal in the state. This official has used the no gambling stance to create more public awareness of her political profile. In doing so she refused to allow state residents to vote on creating a regulated intrastate online poker forum. Coakley has said to the Poker Players Alliance she didn't allow a vote on a proposal in Massachusetts allowing online poker play as long as server and bettor were within the state because it was not written in a proper way, to be included in the fall ballot.
Coakley told poker players advocating the intrastate online poker initiative that the wording of the bill did not clarify the state of Massachusetts position as to whether it would be able to legally collect the payment of the proposed five percent tax on online poker deposits.
Coakley's office states on its website that all online gambling is illegal. Is Martha Coakley's agenda set to derail the intrastate online poker initiative? Will, if she is successful in her bid for a Senate seat spell problems for the bill before the house that is trying to bring an end to the ban on online gambling in America? Political ambition has a way of bringing out the hidden agenda sometimes, maybe this is one of those occasions.
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