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Ask the Slot Expert: Can Casinos Cap Progressives? 5 November 2014

By John Robison, Slot Expert

Last week we had a question about finding a shirt with Bally's Quick Hit logo for the reader's husband. I wrote that I wasn't aware of Bally's ever making Quick Hit logo shirts for a promotion and asked readers if they knew of a source for the shirts.

A number of readers wrote to say that the logo image is very easy to find online (just Google "Quick Hit logo") and that a custom T-shirt store could make a shirt for her.

I didn't suggest making her own shirt because I'm sure that Bally's has all the legal protections possible for its artwork.

Is it legal for a casino (Indian or otherwise) to cap their progressives?

Certain games on bar machines at Potawatomi Carter casino have progressive video poker, but they cap the royal flush on quarter games at $3,000.

How can they do that? If it's a progressive they should keep it going. Last year they capped their $1 video poker progressive at $10,000.

What happens to all the extra revenue that they earn/win from people playing the progressive? It sure doesn't get added to the starting jackpot of the next progressive.

Even if it is legal, it's sure not ethical or right.

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Ask the Slot Expert: Can Casinos Cap Progressives?

Chevron spent $3 million in the Richmond election this year, and appears to have wasted all of that money. Last night's results show that it's favored mayoral candidate Nate Bates was trounced by Councilmember Tom Butt, 35.46 percent to 51.43 percent.

"I'm still trying to process it," Butt told the Express on Wednesday. "I think it was two things: Chevron's campaign just backfired on them and the RPA [Richmond Progressive Alliance], which had huge loses in 2012, redoubled their efforts this time around and that paid off.

"I think the next two years are going to be fun," he added.

In addition, all three of Chevron's candidates for city council Charles Ramsey, Donna Powers, and Al Martinez are trailing progressive candidates Gayle McLaughlin, Jovanka Beckles, and Eduardo Martinez.

City Council (four-year seats; top 3 win) Gayle McLaughlin: 16.91% Jovanka Beckles (I): 16.21% Eduardo Martinez: 14.60% Jim Rogers (I): 13.59% Donna Powers: 12.83% Charles Ramsey: 10.50% Al Martinez: 5.86%

In the race for the two-year seat on the council, incumbent Jael Myrick easily defeated Corky Booz, 50.96 percent to 32.3 percent.

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Progressives Blow Out Big Oil in Richmond

Failure of the Democratic Consultant Class (w/ Becky Bond of CREDO SuperPAC)
Becky Bond the Director of the Credo Super PAC explains the dangers that progressives face if Republicans win the Senate, what races is Credo focusing on? Why progressives need to vote and...

By: Sam Seder

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Failure of the Democratic Consultant Class (w/ Becky Bond of CREDO SuperPAC) - Video

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to supporters during a rally for Kentucky senatorial candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 369 meeting hall in Louisville, Ky., Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) more >

With Democrats in danger of losing big on Election Day, some progressives already have started blaming the Obama administration for failing to define any agenda for voters this year and are pledging to remake the entire party in the image of populist hero Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), a rising force on the left and the biggest champion of Mrs. Warren and other populist liberals, took direct aim at President Obama Tuesday and said the Democratic party must be remolded.

The criticism comes as Democrats face the real prospect of relinquishing control of the Senate and losing seats in the House.

The White House failed to define any agenda for voters in 2014, the PCCC said in a statement Tuesday. Progressives will remold the Democratic party in Elizabeth Warrens image focused on big ideas and popular economic issues. Well organize in New Hampshire and Iowa to ensure that all Democrats running for president take a position on Warrens populist agenda of reforming Wall Street, reducing student debt, and expanding Social Security benefits.

Potential Democratic candidates for president, including frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton, have given clear indications they intend to sound a highly populist note in the 2016 elections.

But progressives dont want to wait until 2016 to see populist ideals come to the forefront in Washington. Theyre urging Mr. Obama to base the final two years of his presidency on the platform outlined by Ms. Warren.

If President Obama makes Elizabeth Warrens agenda the centerpiece of his agenda in 2015, his popularity will rise and Americans will get the debate about big, bold ideas that we deserve, the PCCC said.

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Progressives turn on Obama, plan to remake Democratic party 'in Elizabeth Warren's image'

President Barack Obama tells us, You did not build that. Hillary Rodham Clinton tells us, Corporations do not create jobs.

Every penny spent by city, county, state and federal governments comes from one place taxpayers. Every one of their employees and projects undertaken gets the money from one place taxpayers. Every check sent for unemployment, Aid to Dependent Children, food stamps and other programs comes from one place taxpayers. Governments cannot do one thing for anybody until they take money from one place taxpayers.

People who work and pay taxes keep this country going, and we are in the process of reducing their numbers due to a progressive agenda that is failing. The current agenda and the debt will eventually ruin this country, and I hope I am not here to see it happen. My regrets to my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

MIKE McCOY

Fort Wayne

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Failing progressives lead nation to ruin