Poker is WV's intellectual property

Yesterday I talked with Delegate Jim Morgan, D-Cabell, on why he voted for the table games bill last week. This morning I had a few minutes on the phone with Delegate Kelli Sobonya, R-Cabell, who voted against the bill. I asked her about the part in the state constitution that says the lottery will be regulated, controlled, owned and operated by the state. I said I could understand how table games would fall under the first two verbs, but not the second.

Sobonya said the way it was explained to the delegates, table games will considered the intellectual property of the state, and the racetrack casinos will be the state's agents in operating them. I said I didn't quite understand that. I don't remember what she said after that.

This will really be something for lawyers to argue before the state Supreme Court.

Poker, blackjack, routlette, craps... intellectual property. Who'd a thunk it?