People In Mobile Speak Out On Electronic Bingo

Do you think there should be electronic bingo games in Mobile?
We are watching legal cases that could answer that question.
Alabama State Troopers tried to raid Victoryland in Shorter, Alabama and Country Crossing in Dothan Friday to confiscate bingo machines.
But, rulings on search warrants won't come until next week at the earliest.
The heated confrontations in other parts of the state are prompting people in Mobile to form opinions.
If you were playing electronic bingo, you would file this story under "I", for impasse.
State troopers couldn't get inside Country Crossing in Dothan Friday, but the business is shut down.
Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson, who's the commander of the Governor's Task Force on Illegal Gambling, is satisfied, for now.
Tyson said, "We have pulled our troopers back out on the highway and we are awaiting the relief that we are seeking from the Alabama Supreme Court and, when that relief comes, we will move in and seize the illegal machines that are there."
If the courts rule in favor of the bingo operations, could electronic bingo come to the Mobile area?
We asked people in the city Friday night what they think about that possibility.
Wilder Roberts of Mobile said, "I have no problem with them (electronic bingo machines), but, then, I have no problem with gambling."
Consuela Rice of Mobile said, "I don't gamble, so I don't do bingo."
Al Hayes of Mobile said, "I could care less one way or the other. If they want to gamble, that's their business. I don't think its the governor's part or anybody else's to say whether we can gamble or not. I think that should be left up to the individual."
And Larry Bedwell of Thomasville said, "I don't agree with it. I just think it's the wrong thing to be doing. I think our state can do other things to save money in different areas. I just don't agree with the gambling part of it."
A criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama estimated the operation Friday cost the state as much as $130,000, but the governor's office said troopers were doing their job to enforce the law.