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For McCain and Team, a Host of Ties to Gambling

By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: September 27, 2008

Senator John McCain was on a roll. In a room reserved for high-stakes gamblers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, he tossed $100 chips around a hot craps table. When the marathon session ended around 2:30 a.m., the Arizona senator and his entourage emerged with thousands of dollars in winnings.

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BETS Mr. McCain supported tax breaks for casinos over the years, including one that helped Foxwoods in Connecticut. He has also gambled there.A lifelong gambler, Mr. McCain takes risks, both on and off the craps table. He was throwing dice that night not long after his failed 2000 presidential bid, in which he was skewered by the Republican Party’s evangelical base, opponents of gambling. Mr. McCain was betting at a casino he oversaw as a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, and he was doing so with the lobbyist who represents that casino, according to three associates of Mr. McCain.

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Images: (extra chips) buypokerchips.com; (Mini Mac) via politic.com (dice) stochastix.files.wordpress.com; (cigarette) + (smoke)i.show.com; (Maverick) via sixtiescity.com; (Cincinnatus) Cincinnati Kid via stuartcondy.files.wordpress.com via stuartcondy.wordpress.com;(Worm) Rounders via i.realone.com viarollingstone.com; (Ace) Casino via media3.washingtonpost.com; (Nicky) Casino via urbandigs.com;  (Ford) + (Mike) House of Games via upstartfilmcollective.com; (Danny) + (Busty) Oceans’s 11 (2001) via img2.timeinc.net via ew.com…and to IMDb

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