
The impact of political contributions is unclear. Neither the gaming industry nor its opponents have had the impact of their contributions examined. Mother Jones magazine recently conducted a study to determine the extent of the gaming industry’s political spending*. Investigators estimated dollar amounts of political spending for 32 states plus Washington D.C. These estimates were based on either searching databases or retreiving other sources of data. No data on political spending was available for the other 18 states. This study found that a total of $100 million dollars has been spent on political contributions in the past five years by... Read more →