Confirmed AGA CEO Geoff Freeman
AGA will sit out national debate on Internet gambling
2014-05-14
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(US).- AGA will not be joining the national debate on Internet gambling. Rather than joining the national debate, the American Gaming Association will focus on telling the “success story of casinos and their value to communities,” AGA President Geoff Freeman said in his closing remarks at last week’s Southern Gaming Summit in Biloxi, Mississippi.
“We will be a relentless champion of gaming,” he told the Summit attendees.
Freeman, in emphasizing the need for the industry to “find new products that connect with people,” said the AGA would avoid the Internet debate because it is divided into businesses that support federal regulation and those that believe in states’ rights. But he urged the industry to work toward developing new products.
“As casinos become multi-faceted entertainment centers with restaurants, entertainment and amenities designed for all ages,” he said, according to a Sun Herald newspaper report, “the casino floor also needs to evolve.”
Freeman emphasized the AGA would also work on cracking down on illegal online casino sites and Internet cafés.
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