Gambling News by Gambling Headquarters

Senator Bill Frist is fighting for his supporters in the conservative Family Research Council who want to ban internet gambling while more than 5,000 phone calls poured into different US senator offices over the past week in opposition to the proposed ban. Frist and his Christain conservative backers appear to be on the winning hand of this battle as the senator, who is looking to run as a presidential candidate in 2008, is attaching part of the anti-internet gambling bill to a terrorist defense bill. No defense bill has been turned down by the Senate in the past five years. As long as Frist gets his wish to attach the part of the anti-internet gambling bill that will disallow credit cards to distribute money to offshore gambling operations the bill will most likely pass. Frist is making this last ditch effort because he knows the anti-internet gambling bill has no chance of facing the senate floor this year. Meanwhile, senators all over the country are being bombarded by phone calls from the poker players alliance and other internet gambling supporters begging them to stop the attachment Frist is proposing.

Senator Clinton's office received more than 50 calls in one hour oppsosing any action against internet gambling. Senator Richard Durbin, at the Illinois office experienced a higher than normal call volume, and people were struggling to get through. Senator John Cornyn's office in Texas received between 100-200 calls from people expressing their views. In Virginia, Senator Allen received over 26 calls from opposers of the gambling bill.

Senators are elected to support the majority, but it appears that Senator Bill Frist is only looking out for his conservative minority.