{"id":22139,"date":"2010-10-01T16:20:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T16:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gaming_law_hits_charities_hard\/"},"modified":"2010-10-01T16:20:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T16:20:31","slug":"gaming_law_hits_charities_hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22139","title":{"rendered":"Gaming Law hits South Carolina Charities Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local charities are hurting since some quit holding raffles over legal concerns, according to testimony at a public hearing on the state&#8217;s gaming laws Thursday evening in North Charleston.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first of several hearings around the state by a subcommittee appointed by Sen. Glenn McConnell, R-Charleston. The senators are drafting a bill that would call for a referendum next year to let voters decide on a constitutional amendment declaring charitable raffles legal. They&#8217;re drafting another bill to allow poker in homes.<\/p>\n<p>As it is, state law written a century ago says all games of chance are illegal. Many charities quit holding raffles after a 2006 raid on a game of Texas Hold &#8217;em at a Mount Pleasant home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2010\/oct\/01\/gaming-law-hits-charities-hard\">Read it all front the local paper on the front page of the local section<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local charities are hurting since some quit holding raffles over legal concerns, according to testimony at a public hearing on the state&#8217;s gaming laws Thursday evening in North Charleston. It was the first of several hearings around the state by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22139\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,135,149,168,87,133,114,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-charitiesnon-profit-organizations","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-gambling","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}