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Hull has payed out a record $12 mil. - 2004-02-01
Former Las Vegas gambler M. Blair Hull is making millionaire Republican Peter Fitzgerald appear like one of the elderly ladies playing the nickel slots.

Hull, 61, who turned $25,000 in 1970s blackjack winnings into a trading company that he and his partners put on the market for $531 million in 1999, refused to discuss his largess. A spokesman disregarded any suggestion he was attempting to buy votes.
Read the full story at Chicago Sun Times, IL

Gambling discussion prepared to heat up Statehouse - 2004-02-01
As Iowans ready to sound off Monday on the possible gambling expansion in the state, a core group of lawmakers and lobbyists are currently hard at work crafting legislation that could chart a new direction for the business and communities betting on riverboat casinos.

Horse and dog tracks anticipate they are granted permission to open up their casino floors to feautre not only slot machines, but table games like blackjack, roulette and craps that are allowed on riverboats.
Read the full story at Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, IA