Bensalem business owners have joined forces with Pennsylvania skill games companies to resist the township’s ordinance banning the machines. Together, they put 200 signatures to a petition and turned out in numbers at a town meeting on Monday night to express their views.
Last month, Bensalem Township unanimously voted to ban skill games within the county. The ordinance came into effect 10 days later.
Small businesses in Bensalem relied on skill games as revenue stream to pay for basic necessities, such as rent. The meeting was open to the public with several business owners and employees in attendance, wearing t-shirts that read: “Skill Games = Jobs” and “VFWs For Skill Games.”
