‘ The main point here: Congress should leave us alone!’ that is the verdict from New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak (D-Elizabeth) and other Garden State legislators, who used hawaii’s annual Chamber of Commerce trip to Washington DC the other day as being a platform to denounce the Restoration of America’s Wire Act.

Lesniak, along side Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, Senate Majority Leader Lou Greenwald and Senate President Steve Sweeney, called on Congress to reject the bill, that will be supported by Las vegas, nevada Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson, and would effectively outlaw all forms of online gambling nationwide (aside from horse racing), even the sale that is online of tickets.

Keep it to the States

‘New Jersey policymakers took the initiative to modernize our gaming industry through online gaming,’ said Greenwald.’Yet Congressional action threatens to destroy this innovative and fledgling effort before it offers to be able to succeed on its own merits. This dilemma should be left to the states, whom are best positioned to decide if and exactly how online gaming should work with their communities, not by Washington.’

The bill had been introduced month that is last Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), and disputes the Department of Justice’s clarification that the Interstate Wire Act of 1961 pertains simply to sportsbetting. This assertion should be overruled, claim Graham and Chaffetz, since it had been a made without input from the public.

Nonetheless, Lesniak branded the proposed ban ‘irresponsible’, adding that the federal government has ‘no spot telling states like New Jersey that have already implemented successful programs to shut them down.’

The legislators warned that the ban would drive customers towards illegal gambling web sites, which could not have the cutting-edge safeguards that are technological New Jersey has been during the forefront of developing. These safeguards benefit customers, providing ‘common feeling protections,’ including measures that are stringent avoid children from gambling on line.

Warnings of Dangerous Black Market Web Sites

‘Instead of a dangerous, international market that is black consumers within the State of the latest Jersey have a safe destination to go a system that not only includes essential consumer protections, but in addition generates tens of thousands of dollars in revenue,’ said Lesniak.

A ban would spell tragedy for nj, Nevada and Delaware the states that have previously regulated online gambling as well as numerous lotteries around the country, and could be ‘trampling on these states’ rights and threatening people’ liberties,’ said the legislators. Sweeney argued, meanwhile, that the Restoration of America’s Wire Act would curtail progress and economic growth.

‘It is disappointing that certain elements are working to dismantle brand New Jersey’s landmark internet gambling law,’ he said. ‘New Jersey’s law had been produced over numerous years, having a consider security and safety. We have quickly become a national leader in the planet of online gambling, and now we simply cannot manage to have all our work and work undone by the whims of the few down in Washington.’

Prieto summarized the mood of indignation as he stated: ‘New Jersey has taken aggressive and innovative actions to bring its casino industry in to the twenty-first century, and is building in the success of those efforts. Much like video gaming at casinos throughout the nation, this really is clearly an issue most useful left for the states to decide and regulate. New Jersey’s program should be left to succeed by itself.’