TimesDispatch.com | Poker bill busts; liquor's out of luck: "Poker bill busts; liquor's out of luck
Sponsor folds on measure to allow poker games to be played in private clubs
BY TYLER WHITLEY
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITERFeb 5, 2005
Gambling and liquor sales did not fare well in the House General Laws Committee last week.
It set aside two bills that would have regulated poker, then it killed a measure to allow partial privatization of new ABC stores in Virginia.
Del. J. Chapman Petersen, D-Fairfax (City), introduced the two poker bills after reading a news report that the state had raided a high-stakes poker game at a Fraternal Order of Police lodge in Virginia Beach.
Going for the working man vote, Petersen is one of four Democrats seeking the nomination to run for lieutenant governor this year."
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