The reason, according to Buss, is as follows: “They were able to commemorate success in keeping casinos out of Philadelphia despite the fact that two huge gambling operators desperately want to locate there.” In essence, the end-of-year party served as another successful crusade by Casino-Free Philadelphia to keep mega-establishments out of the City of Brotherly Love. The Wall Street Journal piece begins by noting that a group of 100 people from Casino-Free Philadelphia gathered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In an opinion piece that appeared in the Wall Street Journal newspaper on Tuesday, Dale Buss authored “Will Gambling Continue to Grow? All Bets Are Off.” In it, he described the apparent downfall of gambling and quoted Annenberg Public Policy Center Director Dan Romer, who labeled poker as a “fad.”
