Few days after Atlanta officials expressed their aspirations of welcoming video gaming to the downtown gambling attraction in the casinos, a state legislator required to provide with full-fledged casinos throughout the state.

Roger Bruce of D-Atlanta remarked on January 16, 2009 Friday that he is planning to introduce legalization of casinos and video gaming in the General Assembly the forth coming week, which would permit voters to decide on whether they are agreeable to bring gambling to their respective counties.

By following this path to legalization of gambling, he stated, every jurisdiction will have the chance to decide on their individual destiny, rather than permitting legislators decide on it.

"What Im talking about doing is creating full-scale casinos or horse racing if they want them," he stated.

Georgia has been off the gambling process for years, when all the states across the country have squeezed huge revenue gains from tourist gamblers and locals who are playing poker in their casinos or when they were spinning the roulette wheel.

Mark Burkhalter of R-Johns Creek, the House Speaker Pro-Tem stated last month that several of the lawmakers in the Republican majority did not support altering the constitution of the state to permit gambling.

A spokesman for Governor Sonny Perdue, Bert Brantley, stated the governor did not ever see a gambling application being discussed about in the Legislature, however, he stated that they "would have serious concerns about any kind of an idea like this."

While the thought has never been voted for and decide on by citizens, Bruce stated that one of the massive criticisms which Georgians have been concerned about is that gambling might add fuel to crime, which he considers as an argument to be dismissed. He stated without a novice economic stimulus, the state either way is going to face a hike in crime anyway.