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Video Poker 247 - Black’s Video Poker Legacy Lives On

For years former North Carolina House Speaker Jim Black protected the video poker industry, saying that if they banned video poker they would lose more jobs than the state would know what to do with. He said that the video poker industry was essential to the state, and that without it they would see unemployment rise – and these people who had been trained in the video poker industry would not know where to go for a job.

However, since that time, it has been discovered that the only wallet that Black was concerned with was his own. He was being paid off by the video poker industry to keep them alive. The number of campaign contributions that they poured into his account, made the state’s “dependency” on video poker all that much more clear to the residents of the state.

He had received tens of thousands from video poker interests, in addition to a half a million from Don Beason who represented video poker interests in 2000. Black had said that this was a business loan, and in no way related to either his campaign or video poker – looks like he was wrong on both counts. Then there are the sheriffs who were also taking money to protect the illegal video poker games – and the donation that Black got from David Baucom who owns a strip club in Charlotte. Add to this the $30,000 that he got from the video poker industry for the Democratic Party campaign committee.

Many say that they were surprised that Black got sentenced to prison, as muckety-mucks don’t usually get what is coming to them. But after the long list of video poker schemes that keep showing up long after him, most can only wait to see what is next.


 

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