We wouldn't have put that kind of money into it if we thought they were illegal. Franco usually plays on Sundays. The police, they say, should spend their time chasing real criminals. Brian Uhler of the Corpus Christi Police Department said operators aren't telling the whole story. On the tragic side, we hear about paychecks that are gone.
Operators scoff at such stories.
All they want to do is play. Nobody is trying to pay the rent. Many operators said the attorney general's opinion does not supersede the law, an assertion at least one county attorney agrees with. Jim Wells County Attorney Jesusa Sanchez-Vera calls the opinion merely advisory. But Attorney General John Cornyn, who was in Corpus Christi Thursday, said his office's opinion does carry the weight of law.