BINGO

     Victoryland in Shorter, Alabama, is expected to reopen this afternoon at 1:00 pm, settling up another confrontation between the BINGO halls and the Governor.
Here's a quote from a USA Today story about Alabama's ongoing BINGO saga:

In Alabama, slot machines are illegal — but thousands of people for years have played machines that seem identical to slots. The state long ignored it. "That's one of the things that's puzzling to a lot of people," says Bradley Moody, associate professor of political science at Auburn University-Montgomery. "If this is a moral issue for Gov. Riley, why wasn't it morally unacceptable in, say, February 2003?" Riley was elected in 2002

And that does seem to be a question I've heard everywhere. Why now?
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