Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, who has used an anti-gambling stance to improve public awareness of her, refused to permit state residents to vote on creating regulated intrastate online poker. Coakley told the Poker Players Alliance a measure to permit poker players to play online so long as both server and bettor were in Massachusetts wasn't written in proper form to be included at the fall ballot.Coakley announced this week she would run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Ted Kennedy. Immediately she needed to field questions about her ability to continue as Attorney General while campaigning, but insisted her political ambition wouldn't affect her performance as AG.
“I will stay involved,” Coakley told the Boston Herald. "I'VE BEEN and can remain eager about the most important decisions within the office.”
While Coakley asserted her attention to tasks at hand, it was uncertain whether critics had thought she would neglect her job, or whether or not they had meant she now has political implications lying on legal decisions corresponding to reviewing the web poker initiative.
Coakley told poker advocates that the wording of the bill left in question whether Massachusetts could be capable of legally force the payment of a suggested five percent tax on Internet poker deposits.
Despite the presence of no state law against Internet gambling, Coakley's office states on its website that every one online gambling is illegal.
Published on September 4, 2009 by EdBradley
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