Sentences with phrase «says gambling interests»

Updating a 2005 report called «Stacking the Deck,» Common Cause New York says gambling interests have raised more than $ 3 million in less than three years, passing the cash along to elected officials and a series of pro-gambling groups.

Not exact matches

I was kind of like I said interested in gambling or at least speculating or figuring things out and then taking a calculated gamble and what they were telling me was don't try, there were saying that no one can beat the market and the stock prices are efficient and just through simple observation looking at the newspaper and they used to have the 52 - week high low prices in the newspaper, it seemed unreasonable that you know the fair price was 51 day and eight months later, it was 120, and that was pretty much every stock had that kind of range every year and it didn't make sense to me that the fundamentals of the underlying businesses were actually changing that much.

«Interviews have confirmed that players are indeed wealthy non-residents or business persons with interests both in Vancouver and China, coming to Vancouver to gamble,» said the MNP report.

New York Times columnist William Safire said that «although Big Gambling's largess is buying influence in Washington, D.C., Grey's outfit has helped local citizens» groups keep beating the casino interests in state after state.»

«He said, «I'm not taking any money from gambling interests now and I would urge the members to be extremely careful.

In asking the gambling commission to reopen the bidding for a fourth license, Mr. Cuomo said that doing so «may excite national competition by interested parties that submit even better applications in the first round.»

«As they consider the issue of Las Vegas style casino gambling, voters might very well be interested to know whose interests are at stake,» the group said in a statement.

In a guest - host gig on the John Gambling show Friday, Paterson said he isn't interested in running for Congress if disgraced Harlem Democrat Rangel decides to resign.

«The gambling deal is a boon for certain wealthy special interests and of dubious value to the public,» Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, said in a statement on the organization's website at the time.

The spring growing season is of increasing interest to biologists studying the effects of a warming climate, and in coming decades non-native invasive shrubs are positioned to win the gamble on warming temperature, Primack said.

Again, in my experience when a reporter is «Shocked, shocked I say» that there's gambling going on, it's because it's in his best interests to ignore what is plainly obvious.

Needless to say, gambling as an alternative to working for a steady source of income can be considered risky, especially with interest rate hike.