Over poker legalizing bill more political acrimony pop up

Reid is accused of political agenda by Heller

The Dean Heller and Harry Reid senators' political relationships became worse over the weekend, as did respectively the relationships between the Republican and Democratic party members, when in an interview Heller claimed that in supporting Rep. Shelley Berkley, his fellow democrat, in her senatorial position bid rather than passing up the legalization of online poker he was more interested in.

It was announced by the Review-Journal of Las Vegas that Heller said the bill could have been moved on by Reid three months ago but he delayed it on purpose on the Feb 6 elections' run up. The reasons have been reported to be political and aiming at improving the odds of Berkley against him.

For the past week or more, both politicians have been fighting each other, with a deadline on the task of Heller of mustering the support of 15 Republicans for the bill of legalization attempting to impose Raid. For the bill a better bet may prove to be the House of Representatives rather than the Senate, suggested Heller.

The co-author of the bill has been embroiled in the public argument. Jon Kyl, the Arizona's senator of anti-online gambling, earlier this week expressed the opinion that more difficult has been made the legalized online poker achievement through this issue.

It was emphasized by Heller that on the bill he has not given up and to support it he made continuous attempts at persuading fellow Republicans, following the elections in Feb and hopefully in the Congress lame duck session.

Earlier this week a Reid spokesman said: "Instead of trying to secure the support for his colleague and fighting for Nevada, a decision has been made by Senator Heller to question what the intentions of Senator Reid are and blame anyone else but not himself."

"Senator Heller has since may been asked to secure the support of the Republicans, and as soon as the necessary support has been insured to move the bill on has been willing Senator Reid. No support has been secured up till now by Senator Heller, unfortunately. To be able to legalize the so important for Nevada online poker, the fight for a bipartisan support will continue to be on Senator Reid's agenda."

The content of the letter Reid wrote to Heller has also been revealed by the office of Reid. In it he observed the following: "I cannot stand idly by while I observe you show no responsibility as a representing Nevada Senator, though I did not wish such an issue to go political."

"What the citizens of Nevada deserve is someone to fight for them."