New York Post: WTO dispute could tip scales in favor of online poker regulation
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The New York Post published an article yesterday that took a generally negative attitude toward the prospects of online poker lobbyists persuading lawmakers to regulate online poker, but offered some hope for a policy shift based on the current dilemma the US finds itself facing before the World Trade Organization.
For background on the dispute between Antigua and the United States, check out our archived stories on the issue.
The article quotes PPA chairman Alfonse D’Amato, who cited the WTO dispute as a force that could broaden the coalition pressuring the US Government to regulate online gaming:
“In a matter of months, you’re going to see billions of dollars in trade sanctions coming down against the United States,” former New York Sen. Alfonse D’Amato, chairman of the lobbying group Poker Players Alliance, told The Post.
“Then, I believe we will start to have a profoundly new and different group lobbying, saying you’ve got to stop this prohibition [on Internet gambling],” he said. “We look like the ugly American.”
The PPA was in D.C. this week as part of a coordinated lobbying effort designed to raise awareness about various pieces of proposed legislation that would move the US toward a system of regulation and taxation of online gaming.
