Electronic Bingo In Pearl River Voted Down Thanks To Opinions

All developers want to do is bring electronic bingo halls to different cities. They are not asking for full fledged casinos, just halls where they can open shop with electronic bingo machines. Yet they are being denied that opportunity in some areas of the nation.

While casino gambling projects are becoming increasingly popular with politicians to help save their state budgets, bingo halls are having a tough time getting these same politicians on board.

Electronic bingo halls do not have the same revenue promise as casinos, so politicians are less apt to stand behind the bingo form of gambling. If it can't help balance the budget and get them re-elected, then the politicians see no reason to approve these business propositions.

In Pearl River, Lousiana, the Board of Aldermen voted 3-1 not to allow electronic bingo halls within their town limits. "I believe in this time and place it's (electronic bingo halls) not apropriate for the town of Pearl River," said Alderman Virgil Phillips.

Indeed, the time and place would have been much better had the bingo halls guaranteed the town upwards of $100 million a year. "I think a slot machine with the word 'Bingo' on top of it is still a slot machine," said Alderman Jay Scroggins.

Yes, that could be true, but an opinion is not what residents

August 15, 2008
Posted By April Gardner
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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