Comments on: Leapin’ Larry gets his fix

By: Bill Blount calls it quits | Birmingham Weekly

Bill Blount calls it quits | Birmingham Weekly — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:02:43 +0000

[...] dapper man’s voice was loud and gravelly in the recording. He was upset that gambling magnate Milton McGregor, whom he kept calling “Elvis,” was considering getting into the landfill business. Blount said [...]

By: ByeByeBham

ByeByeBham — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:41:16 +0000

It's too bad Larry isn't more popular… SNL would be funny again.

By: lotterylady

lotterylady — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:43:36 +0000

BINGO = a few get rich
Lottery = Millions get educated (e.g. If we mirror GA Lottery)

More than $10.8 Billion from lottery to the Students of Georgia.
More than 1.1 million HOPE Scholarship recipients
more than 940,000 four-year-olds to Pre-k programs throughout the state

Go to:

galottery.com/stc/aboutus/proceedsToEducation.jsp

lotteryinsider.com/people/bios/paul.htm

By: Kyle Whitmire

Kyle Whitmire — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:09:26 +0000

roboticarm,

When it comes to legal contortionist acts, gambling companies are the best, and few are as good as McGregor. Remember, his last attempt at the dog track was to turn it into an “Internet cafe” in which each minute your bought on the cafe computers, which few if any people ever used, bought you a chance in the “sweepstakes” game there. Besides, we say “bingo” and “sweepstakes” and “video poker,” but let's be honest — these are slot machines. If you look at that fourth quote from Langford, even he calls them slot machines.

After all that twisting and turning, setting this up with a charity component should be easy peasy.

By: sourhomealabama

sourhomealabama — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:07:40 +0000

Hey Alabama! Let's help Governor Bob Riley clean the "Sour smell" of corrupt and illegal Bingo out of ALABAMA!

Please visit SourHomeAlabama.com

By: roboticarm

roboticarm — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:41:44 +0000

I was astounded when I saw that this had passed.

Clearly McGregor is probably the only person capable of exceeding the 500 machine limit and coming up with $1 million to fork over to the city every year. But how does he get past the "charity" angle?

And what's the defensible argument for 500+ machines? It seems that would only accelerate the negative impacts of gambling on a city that's already crumbling.