Brennan: Abolishing UIGEA could take years

[The Buzz]

Gambling911's Jenny Woo has been conducting an interview with iMEGA founder Joe Brennan, Jr. Brennan explains in great detail on the efforts iMEGA is making to overturn UIGEA.

He says it's going to be a long and slow process.

That's the thing with the nature of the federal court's process and while it's difficult and people may look at it and say, "God, that takes forever." In a lot of ways it's no slower and no faster than the legislative approach. All you have to do is look at the flip side of the coin here and how many years the opponents of online gambling worked in order to get a bill and then passed to clamp down on Internet gambling. It took over 7-8 years. And now, how many years has Congressman Frank and others been working in Congress to try and get that bill passed? Years. It's a shame that something that is the product of essentially a political, mechanical deal between a handful of (we'll say) political self interested parties that had such a long lasting affect but unless people work like this - both in the courts and lobbying Congress - these things don't get changed. They're not going to happen on their own.

It's a good read if you have the time:

http://www.gambling911.com/gambling-...rs-061809.html