- From: Protect HOPE <5245@stopvideopoker.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:12:09 -0400
- To: www-validator-css@w3.org
Governor Roy Barnes now has a prime opportunity to protect and boost HOPE Scholarship funding. Outlawed there last summer, South Carolina's video poker industry is flooding across Georgia and robbing our education lottery. Video poker is estimated to already be a $1-billion dollar industry in Georgia, but pays no education taxes and is even exempt from all sales taxes. Instead of funding more HOPE Scholarships, the lottery suffers as South Carolina's video poker kingpins get rich at our expense. In Sunday's (5/20/01) Atlanta Journal, their editorial staff said, "On this issue, the General Assembly has trampled its public responsibility." During this year's legislative session, South Carolina's former Gov. Beasley said, "Video poker lobbyists are powerful. They get their tentacles into certain members of the House and Senate, and they end up owning, I mean owning, some of your political machine. And I mean that in the most corrupt way." The Atlanta Journal added, "...the spread of gambling devices is a serious enough problem that Gov. Roy Barnes should include it in his call for a special summer session for redistricting." Please recruit other HOPE recipients to join you in contacting Governor Barnes immediately. Urge him to "stand up for the HOPE program by adding video poker to this summer's special session": The Honorable Roy Barnes 203 State Capitol, Atlanta, GA 30334 Phone 404-656-1776 Fax 404-657-7332 http://www.ganet.org/governor/contact_form.html Students who count on HOPE must be heard NOW! Join our email list for updates on Gov. Barnes defense of the HOPE program - emailto:listjoin@stopvideopoker.org ----------------------------------------------- This is an unsolicited email from the Stop Video Poker Committee http://www.stopvideopoker.org Remove www-validator-css@w3.org by simply replying with "Remove" in the subject line.
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