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Cheating Slots, Cheating States Tom Grey opened the 2007 NCALG/NCAGE conference in Washington DC with a press conference highlighting how slot machines violate consumer protection and public health expectations, and how states become complicit when they are the promoters and beneficiaries of gambling. See 2007 Conference Highlights
Legislators from Gambling States challenged to follow Founders NCAGE national spokesman and field director Tom Grey followed gambling advocate, apologist and law professor I. Nelson Rose as a luncheon speaker for the winter 2008 meeting of the National Council of Legislators from Gambling States. Rose usurped most of the available time, but Grey was able to deliver the challenges outlined in his prepared remarks. Read the Speech
Casino industry's top gun cries 'NIMBY!'
	NCAGE field coordinator Tom Grey (right) debated Frank Fahrenkopf in Cleveland just before the November 2006 elections. Fahrenkopf is CEO for the American Gaming Association, and thus stands as the leading national spokesman for commercial casinos. But would Fahrenkopf want one of his products in his own home town? Here’s his comment:
"People have the right to go to the ballot box and determine what they want the quality of life to be in their own area. Now if someone were to come along and tell me that they were going to put a casino in McLean, Virginia, where I live, I would probably work very very hard against it. I just don’t -- what’s the old saying, ‘NIMBY, not in my back yard?’ Now I may be in favor of gaming, but I just don’t want it located in a particular area." - - AGA CEO Frank Fahrenkopf in Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 24, 2006 See and hear it for yourself! (Windows Media File)
Grey blasts Ohio slots proposal. NCAGE national spokesman and field director Tom Grey debated American Gaming Association CEO Frank Fahrenkopf in Cleveland. Ohio voters face a gambling-industry assault in the form of a Constitutional referendum over the introduction of slot machines. The gambling representatives call it "Learn and Earn." Grey demonstrates it is economic "churn." Click here to read Tom's speech. Funding of Internet gambling explained Internet gambling promoters have spent millions of dollars trying to confuse the recently passed federal laws that make it illegal to use bank credit cards or other instruments to fund illegal Internet gambling. This new document explains the origins, strengths and limitations of the new law, and how it will be enforced and interpreted in the coming months. Facts about the recently passed bill outlawing funding of illegal Internet gambling
A New Bet's Off Blog! The National Coalition Against Gambling Expansion (NCAGE) has a new web log site to discuss gambling topics. The site is powered by TypePad, one of the nation's leading "blog" hosts. You can log in at http://ncage.typepad.com/bets_off_blog/ Be sure to make this one of your "favorites" so you can check back in and "chat."