In the ongoing war of cash and influence between skill game operators and casinos, state lawmakers and their campaign coffers are benefitting handsomely.
HARRISBURG — “It’s the sounds, the lights, the competition or the experience of a lifetime.Cheyenne Frontier Days
For some of the lawmakers, it was an all-expenses-paid experience, information from the company indicates. The disclosure of the Wyoming trip, first reported by Spotlight PA, comes against the backdrop of the legislature’s continued refusal to pass a gift ban to blunt the influence of deep-pocketed special interests on elected officials and their policy-making., diminishing its chances of getting a floor vote before the legislature’s two-year session ends in November — and leaving Pennsylvania with the distinction of being one of the few states in the nation without any limits.
While there, Pennsylvania’s legislators met with lawmakers from Wyoming to learn about how that state regulated the skill game industry, said Mike Barley, another Pace-O-Matic spokesperson. In an interview, Helm, who is not running for reelection this year, said the company paid for her travel and accommodations but contended that “it wasn’t a lavish trip.”Skill game companies want their machines to be formally recognized as legal.
Mustello said that she paid for the trip herself out of her personal funds and has not been reimbursed. She did not elaborate.In Pennsylvania, Pace-O-Matic and its skill games have been at the center of a fierce debate. That discrepancy has created bad blood, with casino owners and others calling skill games illegal and pushing for legislation to ban them.
. Emails obtained by the news organization showed lobbyists for a Pennsylvania casino were ghostwriting legislation for a key Republican senator, participating in strategic planning sessions with him, and drafting talking points and other documents for his office.
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