ODESSA, TX – Weeks after restaurants were ordered to close their dine-in rooms, the Ector County Commissioners Court has finally suspended game room licenses.
According to CBS7, the commissioners voted unanimously to suspend all businesses under the Game Room Ordinance and Sexually Oriented Business Ordinance until fuxrther notice.
No new licenses will be issued by the Ector County Sheriff's Office until the commissioners' court implements a new order.
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Virtually every 8 liner game room I've seen circumvents the law in some very creative ways in order to pay customers who win in cash or cash value, both illegal. I'm not opposed to gambling, but the law allows something so close to it, that most game room operators "bend" the law in order to attract business.
The state of Texas is has a death grip in the remnants of the "Blue Laws" of yesteryear and inexplicably refuse to allow casino's and legalized gambling, knowing full well that many millions of Texas dollars are being spent in the legal casinos in our bordering states of NM, OK, and LA.
Legalize casino gambling and the "game rooms" disappear.
What is most confusing to me is the existence of the one operational casino in Texas, the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino in Eagle Pass, TX. How can this exist, yet state law prohibits casinos? The building is only a few yards from the Rio Grande, and I've often wondered what prevents the Mexican drug cartels from forcibly raiding them.
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