He has questioned Indian tribes pushing for tribal recognition as a ruse to bring casinos to the reservations.

"You trying to bring casinos into Iberia Parish?"

The only way to level the playing field, he says, is to bring casinos to the Catskills, preferably to his doorstep.

New, ever more enticing varieties of video gambling games are making their appearance, and the Internet has brought casinos to the elderly homebound.

For years, surveys reflected that a majority of residents and officials supported bringing casinos to the Catskills.

Bring Indian casinos to the customers, the thinking goes, and everyone will be happy.

The original law that brought legal casinos to Mississippi allowed only gambling cruises.

Despite a war chest of $10 million, an industry-led effort to bring casinos to Florida was defeated this fall by the state's voters.

The whole point of bringing casinos to New Jersey was to create jobs, and now everybody's forgotten about that.

"I think years ago they were talking about bringing casinos out here," he said.