N.J. budget deal, but lottery restart date unclear

Comment #22

Saleo Paleo — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:28:16 GMT

I never realized,That the USA produced this type of politicians,that don't have the mentality of the animal that repersents them,the (American Mule

Comment #21

hsvscubaski — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 05:08:05 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by Litebets27 on July 8, 2006My husband and I had planned to drive up to A.C. for the day to celebrate my birthday. I'm not sure if the Casino's have re-opened, but I'd bet those Casino Executives have gotten their heads together on how they are going to win their lose revenues back. I'll be planning a visit later on thank you.

litebets

They need to sue the head Jack Ass for their /my losses. I own Boyd stock and it cost me

Comment #20

Litebets27 — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:23:06 GMT

My husband and I had planned to drive up to A.C. for the day to celebrate my birthday. I'm not sure if the Casino's have re-opened, but I'd bet those Casino Executives have gotten their heads together on how they are going to win their lose revenues back. I'll be planning a visit later on thank you.

litebets

Comment #19

LckyLary — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:09:55 GMT

Some of the payouts during the shut-down were weird.. like over 700 dollars straight but nothing for pairs.. meaning nobody picked winnning pairs and you could have scored big if you played "990" for a week ahead on Jul. 1st. Of course because that's over 600 you'd have to pay taxes on that.

From what it sounds like, you can buy tickets now or claim winnings, but the LIVE drawings would resume Sunday afternoon. There have to still be some 7-day advance tickets out there so drawings must still... [ More ]

Comment #18

LOTTOMIKE — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:12:02 GMT

your right.its a shame how our country is ending up.maybe its still not too late to change the tide.or is it

Comment #17

Badger — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:51:54 GMT

I believe, according to our news, that you in NJ are the only state that has higher property taxes than we do in WI. So it must be h*ll, because ours are ludicrous. They tried to raise the the taxes in the past few years, and had, literally, angry citizens descend upon their meetings. It almost got out of control.

They (the PTB, aka clueless pols) know better than to try that route again here. So instead, because they can't manage (literally) to live within their budgets, they are raising... [ More ]

Comment #16

orangeman — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 04:22:48 GMT

The Demorats obviously shut down the casinos and the lottery for the publicity such moves would bring. Nobody cares about code enforcement or the tax office. Shutting those things down might lead to dancing in the streets. Heaven forbid a citizen might be happy!

Orangeman

Comment #15

GoldenEgg — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:56:32 GMT

Scratchers are the Instant Games

....which I am humbly awaiting for the shutdown to end so that I can cash in the ones I bought and won off of before the shutdown.

On a different note:

I had to laugh at some of those merchants, especially the ones that usually snub their noses up at us lottery players and make us wait until after they have waited on customers that came in after the lottery player, but because they are actually buying merchandise from them, will take them fir... [ More ]

Comment #14

MADDOG10 — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:41:28 GMT

Oh yea, the head jack-ass of the democratic party of NJ . Well if he had this authority to shut the state down, then why did'nt he call an emergency session of the legislators and tell them to stay until a budget is passed a week previous to JA shutting the State down. Did anyone ever ask this?

If the people of this State DO Not Open your eye's on this one, then you deserve everything thats going to come your way....!

Has the head jack-ass said how he's going to make up the lost reven... [ More ]

Comment #13

Raven62 — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:55:44 GMT

It's more like thousands of dollars a day!

And their are 6200+ Lottery Agents

Comment #12

CalifDude — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:04:30 GMT

Wow. I had no idea they were so popular. So, retailers normally sell hundreds of dollars a day of scratchers? Amazing.

Comment #11

Raven62 — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:33:49 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by CalifDude on July 7, 2006Do they call scratchers "instant tickets"?

Yes!

http://www.state.nj.us/lottery/instant/2-4_games_list_06.htm

Comment #10

CalifDude — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:22:36 GMT

Do they call scratchers instant tickets

Comment #9

Raven62 — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:19:29 GMT

Attention Lottery Customers and Retailers

Due to the State budget impasse, the New Jersey Lottery has ceased normal operations.

The Lottery has directed all agents to cease all ticket sales, effective 7:55 pm, Saturday, July 1, 2006.

All lottery terminals will be shut down after the July 1 drawing at 7:55 pm.

There will be no ticket sales (including instant tickets), winning ticket validation, claim payments or any activity on the "Green Machine" terminals after 7:55 pm Saturday.... [ More ]

Comment #8

CalifDude — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:03:31 GMT

The amount they lost from actual sales is in the second part of the statement. I did not refer to that part.

I thought the only part of the lottery that was stopped was the purchasing of online tickets. They shut down the green machines . I never saw anything about the scratchers. Where did you see that they stopped the sale of scratchers, and why would they do that

Comment #7

four4me — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:58:41 GMT

i think there refering to retail goods that many stores sell to people .like cigaretts and lottery tickets go hand in hand. Also retailers that sell lottery tickets have to buy the scratchers they sell for the lottery. The lottery dosn't give them (scratchers) to retailers to sell.

Comment #6

DoubleDown — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:41:38 GMT

Angry ?

I think you ( and hopefully, lots more voters) went way beyond angry a long time ago...

un _ ingbelieveable how stupid this whole thing really is.

DD

Comment #5

CalifDude — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:32:20 GMT

Convenience-store owners complained that not only did they each lose hundreds of dollars a day in lottery sales, but also money from sales of items that lottery players usually buy.

How did they lose hundreds of dollars a day ?? I thought that money went to the lottery.

Comment #4

Todd — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:06:07 GMT

DD,

There's a lot of people thinking exactly the same thing. It is stupid beyond belief, but not so stupid as far as Corzine is concerned. He got exactly what he wanted -- and what the liberal mentality always wants -- higher taxes. By shutting down the lottery and the casinos, he rammed his stupid tax raise down everyone's throat, and in the process cemented his place in history as just another tax-raising New Jersey governor. Truly a personification of the jackass symbol of his part... [ More ]

Comment #3

DoubleDown — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:25:27 GMT

Todd,

What really boggles my little mind is the fact that the State of New Jersey lost $1.3 million in taxes per DAY for each day the casinos were closed.

DD

Comment #2

Just6ntlc — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:06:14 GMT

This is a good story. However if NJ can't play MM on this draw, sales will fall.

Comment #1

Todd — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:02:23 GMT

It's a funny (maybe not-so-funny!) thing to read that NJ Democrats feel that by raising the sales tax, our citizens are all emerging as winners. No, any first grader could tell you that raising the sales tax makes everyone a loser. Plus, the whole property tax relief thing is a crock. Check out their logic -- you raise the sales tax, and use some of it to pay back higher property taxes. That right, I feel like a winner now

N.J. budget deal, but lottery restart date unclear

Lottery Post — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:02:01 GMT

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and lawmakers reached a deal yesterday on a state budget, six days into a government shutdown that shuttered casinos and threw more than 80,000 people out of work.

Corzine said about 5 p.m. that the shutdown would end in 24 to 36 hours. The budget bills first must pass both the Senate and Assembly.

He cautioned that the budget accord was not cause for celebration, because too many residents' lives had been disrupted.

We have much more to do in the coming mon... [ More ]