One Of The Lawmakers Leading The Anti-Online Poker Crusade Says He Has Never Used Email

A lawmaker who pushed an online poker ban last year and is expected to do so again at some point this year said he has never sent an email in his entire life.

“I don’t email,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (Republican-South Carolina) told Meet the Press last week. “You can have every email I’ve ever sent. I’ve never sent one.” Graham was discussing the so-called controversy surrounding Hilary Clinton’s email use.

In recent times, an admission of never using email carries with it the suggestion that the person isn’t the most Internet savvy. It seems to be a fair inference. Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn raised eyebrows in 2012 when he said he has never used email.

Graham’s lack of email use is surprising since he is one of the lawmakers spearheading Sheldon Adelson-backed efforts to ban online poker nationwide via a proposal to augment some of the language in a 1961 federal bill called the Wire Act. Doing so would prevent U.S. states from letting licensed companies venture into the online gambling space.

You would think someone bold enough to outlaw a certain Internet industry would be an expert on all things related to the worldwide web and its business applications.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who hails from Utah, has his version of the proposed online poker ban in the House. Graham could introduce another measure into the Senate later this year.

Graham’s admission about not using email is perhaps even more striking because even someone like Sen. John McCain is tech savvy enough to play online poker during important Congressional hearings. McCain is 78 years old, while Graham is 59.

Maybe Graham should get some poker coaching from the Arizona Republican, though the poker community’s head might explode from that hypocrisy.

(h/t Dan Cypra of PoketFives.)

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