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Lottery wouldn’t be a threat to casinos
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.
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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.