If you have been keeping up with the poker news you'll know that Senator Lesniak of New Jersey got both the house and the senate in his state to approve an intrastate online gaming law. The legislation was vetoed by conservative state governor Christie. In a recent letter to the federal government, a response to a letter by Harry Reid regarding federal policies towards state gambling, Lesniak points out to everyone that what New Jersey does it up to New Jersey because there is no law that says internet poker for money is illegal. We all know that there has been several attempts to create a federal online gaming law as well as attempts by individual states to pass their own intrastate gambling laws. Proposed legislation seems to fail because of the assumption that online gaming and online poker violates the Wire Act. But as Lesniak points out in his open letter to the feds, the Wire Act came into being because of organized crime and its attempt to offer sports betting across state lines not to regulate the internet. Because of course, the Internet wasn't even conceivable at the time the Wire Act came to pass. The attempt by the federal government to disallow intrastate online poker based on a federal law wildly out of date is plain wrong. Lesniak's letter indicated that perhaps opposition to online gaming by individual politicians and states may be agenda based and nothing to do with the supposed violation of federal law. What about Nevada? Lesniak asks. Exactly. In the wake of Black Friday and a crippled U.S. economy to deny states the opportunity to improve their revenue through entertainment and online gaming is starting to seem ridiculous. Thank goodness we have politicians like Lesniak to point this out.