He returned to Vegas every year for vacation. So when Iowa needed someone who could write administrative rules and who knew gaming, Patton was the man. It is unfair, he says, to compare the two jurisdictions today. Each, he says, has different goals. Patton's job, he said, is to keep it clean.
Casino regulation is about money.
Now, with casino gaming maturing in Mississippi, the commission sees its job as steering the growth to make the state's Tunica and Gulf Coast markets vacation resort destinations, offering more than slot machines and buffet tables. I don't see us acting any differently to casinos than they do to banks.