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A recent article from the Daily Herald reports about some thinking that gambling machines will save our veterans’ clubs in this State of Illinois and a few of us don’t.  We think that its membership that will ultimately save these clubs but, as I am sure you have guessed by now, I have an extension of why membership is the key and why it is falling off. According to the Daily Herald, “Some veterans groups think video gambling might be the key to fixing finances hurt by membership declines. But some say the wait to add video gambling machines in their clubs can be long.  Bill Geary is corporate secretary of Wauconda American Legion Post 911 in the Chicago suburb. He said the addition of video gambling machines in February 2013 has meant the difference between losing money and making money.  Mike Stojak of American Legion Post 673 in Huntley tells the Daily Herald in Arlington Heights that his club spent two years applying to the state before finally getting machines i...

The problem with CPAC is the same problem all prominent and televised group face.   Many of them are so quick to tell America what the problem is but none will tell America what they intend on doing about it and how.   America wants details and not surface dust.   CPAC had a golden opportunity to put together a list of speakers who not only reminded us what was wrong but what was right and how we can fix the issue.   If the Republicans wish to get back all that they have and soon will lose, they need to get back to solutions and stop all this fakeness.     Now don’t let the other groups get off scot-free either.   Many groups formed today are formed because they see a flaw in our system but how many of them offer anything but rhetoric.   I see few if any saying okay America here is the situation, here is what has been done in the past and why it did not work.   So now here is what we are proposing and why it will.   Convincing ...