Michael Brown pushes back at gambling critics
Brown, in a 2007 file photo. (RICKY CARIOTI – The Washington Post) D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown (I-At Large) has been under a microscope lately, thanks in no small part to his role in legalizing a form of Internet gambling that’s come to be known as “iGaming.”
Now, as the D.C. Lottery prepares for a series of community meetings aimed at selling the program to skeptical residents, Brown is mounting a campaign to push back at his critics, accusing some of “gross misstatements.”
In a four-page “Dear Colleagues” letter circulated Friday to D.C. Council members and advisory neighborhood commissioners, Brown aims to “set the record straight” on a number of points of criticism, including the method by which iGaming became law.
For the complete article by Mike DeBonis please vist the Washignton Post website- http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/post/michael-brown-pushes-back-at-gambling-critics/2011/09/19/gIQAHAmNfK_blog.html
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