Key Takeaways
- The Casino Association of New Jersey (CANJ) has passed a resolution—in language worthy of the US Constitution—that it opposes Sheldon Adelson’s support of efforts to ban online gaming.
- The CANJ’s intervention in the debate is both timely, and it carries an additional significance. The influence that Sheldon Adelson wields over the American Gaming Association (AGA) has prevented that organization from opposing his attempts to ban online gambling.
- CANJ has provided a backdoor means for the titans of the casino industry to lobby against Adelson while their own AGA is hamstrung.
The Casino Association of New Jersey (CANJ) has passed a resolution—in language worthy of the US Constitution—that it opposes Sheldon Adelson’s support of efforts to ban online gaming.
The formal, not to say archaic language of the resolution is apposite, since it states that “the enactment of a federal prohibition against internet gaming would violate the Tenth Amendment right of each state to determine gambling policy within its borders.”
