Steve Toth
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And it became the no lobbyists left behind session when it came to gambling.
And they're like, hey, we want to write you a $25,000 check for your reelection campaign.
I'm like, I don't want it.
We're not asking for your guaranteed vote in favor of it.
And I'm like, I don't want it.
If Planned Parenthood wanted to give me money so I could vote against abortion, I would take that money so I could vote against abortion.
But I'm not going to take your dirty money
that came at the hands of somebody that lost their house or lost their marriage or lost their business as a result of it.
It's just dirty money.
Some of the nicest guys.
Very wonderful people.
Did they call it gaming?
Some did, yeah.
And Steve, don't you understand about the money that we're going to be able to spend on public education as a result of doing this?
Right?
It's about the children, Steve.
It went down in flames.
So it typically, and I appreciate Dan Patrick over in the Senate because he pretty much guaranteed that as long as he's going to be the like of, and hopefully Brandon Creighton will come in after him, will do the same thing.
I think he will, but I don't think it has a future in Texas, thankfully.
Gambling.