Steve Toth

And at the end of the day, you look at any of the states that have implemented it.

And we have a national treasurer in Houston by the name of Jim McInvale.

His name is Mattress Mac and he owns Gallery Furniture.

He's the most amazing man in the whole world.

And he's a gambler.

And he would say the worst thing that Texas could possibly do would be to bring gambling to Texas.

Why?

They build these billion-dollar resorts, right, with cash, these multinational corporations.

What happens to that money?

People go and gamble, and that money leaves our economy.

Of course.

So you have less money moving within the economy.

They'll say, well, yeah, but it's a great tax revenue.

There's great tax revenue from it.

Yeah, but eventually the pool in which you're drawing from dries up.

It's all it is.

And this past session, the past two sessions, they've been trying to do it.

And I got a call from the lobbyists, which they assigned two lobbyists to me.

So there are 150 house members.

Each of us had two lobbyists assigned to them for gambling.