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Internet poker licensing advocate exploring ballot initiative 11/28/2005 (Dale Wetzel via GrandForksHerald.com) BISMARCK, N.D. - Fargo state Rep. Jim Kasper is asking gambling companies to help finance a ballot measure that would make North Dakota the first state to license and regulate Internet poker businesses. Kasper aggressively pushed the idea in the Legislature early this year, only to have the North Dakota Senate defeat a licensing bill and a constitutional amendment that would have given lawmakers authority to regulate Internet poker. Kasper believes North Dakotans may embrace the proposal if its licensing revenues were used to reduce local property taxes. "It's a natural," the Fargo Republican lawmaker said. "I believe if we did do an initiated measure, with the fact we're going to reduce people's property tax, I think it's a slam dunk." Industry officials have been wary of the idea, while describing Kasper as tenacious in his pursuit of it. The Senate's 44-3 vote last March to reject Kasper's Internet poker licensing bill left officials wondering whether the concept would be popular among North Dakota voters. Kasper said he has asked companies for financial support for an Internet poker initiative, but has not received any contributions. He has not registered a fund-raising committee with the North Dakota secretary of state's office.  Full Story
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