Senator Bob Goodlatte of Virginia has taken it upon himself to decide that US citizens cannot decide for themselves about online gambling so he has passed a law on the last day of the congress which was attached to a home security bill, thus nearly assuring the rider would get through, that makes it illegal for banking institutions to knowingly allow an online gambling site to be funded using that banking institute for a means.

Please note that no federal law was passed explicitly stating that online gambling is in any way illegal. However there may be laws at your local state levels that if not making it illegal then they have been strong enough to scare off a percentage of the online casinos and this includes the leading software provider to what many including myself think are the best casinos on line. The states this software provider will not accept players are Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, New York, New Jersey and Wisconsin.

While Senator Bob Goodlatte was protecting the good citizens of the states from enjoying online gambling by passing a law against banking facilities that have no real way of policing this idiotic law to tell US citizens they can't gamble from the privacy of their own homes he was accepting $10,000 in donations from the horse racing association which also just happens to be one of the few entities US citizens have been given the green light to gamble online legally. Do the words hypocrite or conflict of interest come to anyone's mind?