Pastor and CAGE Plan Rally Against Bogdanoff's Gaming Bill

A South Florida pastor plans to hold a rally outside the downtown West Palm Beach office of state Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, to speak against her proposed gambling expansion bill."

Mark Boykin, the Church of All Nations senior pastor, posted a release that calls for the rally, to be jointly held with Citizens Against Gambling Expansion at noon Tuesday outside Bogdanoffs office on Clematis Street.

I am extremely disappointed in Senator Bogdanoff's attempt to expand gambling in Florida, Boykin stated in the release. She ran as a family values candidate. I supported Senator Bogdanoff; I held a fundraiser for Senator Bogdanoff; I voted for Senator Bogdanoff and now she is walking away from our Florida family values.

I believe that everything that happens in Vegas must stay in Vegas, and we do not need the kind of crime, prostitution, and other evils associated with gambling to expand in Florida.

For decades, we have cultivated a family-friendly, vacation-postcard image here in Florida and Senator Bogdanoffs bill will destroy it, continued Pastor Mark D. Boykin.

Its a Florida nightmare to think that politicians like Senator Bogdanoff want to bring down a 10.6 percent unemployment figure and $2.6 billion in budget cuts this year by bringing Las Vegas-style gambling to Florida. It wont work and it will hurt our economy and, more importantly, our family-friendly vacation status.