‘ The line that is bottom Congress should keep us alone!’ that is the verdict from New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak (D-Elizabeth) as well as other Garden State legislators, who used their state’s annual Chamber of Commerce trip to Washington DC last week as 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, which is supported by Las vegas, nevada Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson, and would efficiently outlaw all forms of online gambling nationwide (apart from horse racing), even the online sale of lottery tickets.

Leave it towards the States

‘New Jersey policymakers took the effort to modernize our gaming industry through online gaming,’ said Greenwald.’Yet Congressional action threatens to destroy this innovative and effort that is fledgling this has an opportunity to be successful on its very own merits. This problem should be kept to the states, who are best positioned to decide if and exactly how online gaming should work in their communities, not by Washington.’

The bill was 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.

However, Lesniak branded the proposed ban ‘irresponsible’, incorporating that the federal government has ‘no place telling states like New Jersey which have already implemented successful programs to shut them straight down.’

The legislators warned that a ban would drive customers towards illegal gambling web sites, that might not have the cutting-edge technological safeguards that New Jersey has been during the forefront of developing. These safeguards benefit customers, providing ‘common sense protections,’ including strict measures to prevent children from gambling on line.

Warnings of Dangerous Black Market Sites

‘Instead of a dangerous, international black market, consumers into the State of New Jersey have a safe place to go a system that do not only includes essential customer protections, but also generates 1000s of dollars in revenue,’ said Lesniak.

A ban would spell catastrophe for nj, Nevada and Delaware the states that have already regulated online gambling as well as much lotteries across the country, and would be ‘trampling on these states’ rights and individuals that are threatening rights,’ said the legislators. Sweeney argued, meanwhile, that the Restoration of America’s Wire Act would curtail progress and growth that is economic.

‘It is disappointing that certain elements are working to dismantle brand New Jersey’s landmark internet gambling law,’ he stated. ‘New Jersey’s law was developed over numerous years, having a focus on security and safety. We have ver quickly become a national frontrunner in the world of Internet gambling, and we simply cannot afford to have all our hard 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 steps to bring its casino industry into the century that is 21st and is building on the success of those efforts. Much like gaming at casinos throughout the national country, this might be clearly an issue best left for the states to decide and regulate. New Jersey’s program should be left to succeed by itself.’