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...book includes scenes like the poker gamesMahony remembers from Weld's days as a Hill andBarlow associate...
...been losing their homes, their cars. Families are breaking up," said Jennings. "I had a client tell me, 'I want you to ban these things. I'm hooked, and the only way I can get away from them is if you take them away.'" So when a group of poker-machine operators visited him not once but twice this year and threatened to punish his political turnabout by financing a primary opponent, Jennings didn't budge. In his re-election bid, he faces Marlboro County coroner Tim Brown, who has hired one of the state's top-drawer consultants...
...claiming the machines violate the state's constitutional ban on lotteries; the decision turns on the definition of a lottery, which is considered a game of chance (as players in last week's $195 million Powerball game will testify). The justices in South Carolina have to decide whether video poker involves more skill than luck...
...fact that Beasley has made video poker the hottest issue in the state reflects in part a nationwide backlash against most forms of gambling: it's evident from Oklahoma, where voters in February overwhelmingly rejected a referendum to bring casino gambling to the state, to Michigan, where voters may have a chance this November to overturn a plan for three Detroit casinos. But much of the new resistance has focused on video gambling, which experts have called the crack cocaine of wagering because of its quick and deep hold on players. Four years ago, a statewide referendum in South Carolina...
...said Richard Gergel, lead lawyer for the plaintiffs suing the industry in the supreme court case. Jennings, for one, says the industry is paying the price for reaching too far into gamblers' pockets. His renovated Victorian law office in Bennettsville stands across from a bingo hall with 20 video-poker machines. Its owners recently put in an automated teller machine, though there's one at a bank right across the street. "The industry got greedy," said Jennings. "[Now] you can't find anyone in South Carolina who doesn't know someone who's addicted...