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Video Poker Shot Down       
 
October 12, 2009

Cook County Commissioner Bill Beavers and Commissioner Bridget Gainer have a lot to celebrate according to residents. The state has been trying to push through video poker and wants it legalized so that there would be money for jobs and infrastructure programs that were grossly underfunded. Instead of finding ways to fix the budget, this state decided that by bringing in video poker they could simply add more money in instead.
 
However, the mistake that they made was in leaving the decision up to the various counties and municipalities or are the state. So far many of these counties have decided to vote against video poker as they feel that it is not worth the trouble that it would bring in. They say that not only do they not feel that they would see many of the jobs that would come from these infrastructure projects, but they are also concerned that the amount of money that they would actually see from it would be so minute it wouldn’t even pay for the additional police that they would have to hire.
 
Cook County is one of those counties that have decided not to allow video poker. When residents showed up at the local meeting they were greeted by protesters who had signs and shirts that were urging residents to vote for the video poker machines. However the problem with this plan is that Cook County is a mostly African American community, and a poorer community than many of the others across the state. As one gentleman pointed out all of the picketers were white.
 
They were aware that in the richer counties across the state they had already voted against the slot machines, and were trying to pressure the poorer counties to vote for the video poker machines. Instead Cook County did what its residents wanted and voted against the machines making their constituents extremely proud of them.

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