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Letter to the editor:

Lottery wouldn’t be a threat to casinos

Peggy Bacon, Las Vegas

Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 | 2:01 a.m.

Heads up, Nevada politicians! I just returned from a business trip to South Carolina. I was impressed with its “state education lottery.”

I have lived in Las Vegas since 1958 and do not gamble. As a businessperson you cannot live here and gamble. However, I did indeed contribute a dollar to the South Carolina education lottery as my way of saying: I approve!

We could have the same here if it were not for the casino moguls who fear we would take from them. I do not patronize the casinos, but I would play the lottery if it were for a good cause (education).

Think of all the Nevada locals who go across the state line to California and Arizona to play the lottery.

Discussion: 1 comment so far…

  1. By KDR81
    10/7/08 at 11:21 a.m.
    Suggest removal

    No it would be a threat to Nevada's poor.

    Besides, if Casinos were allowed to run odds in their favor like the state gets in the lottery, the Casino execs would be imprisoned.

    I'm serious.

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