Alabama lottery bill faces battle in House

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winsumloosesum — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:42:25 GMT

Lottery bill blocked on Alabama House floor, won t be on November ballot

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Bleudog101 — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:54:44 GMT

I say 'Auf Wiedersehen!' Doubt anything will get accomplished. Vote the bums out.

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Tatototman65 — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:02:24 GMT

Good luck

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ressuccess — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 20:29:28 GMT

I hope they get the lottery bill passes through the house and the senate to get a Powerball and Mega Millions.

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LiveInGreenBay — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 19:15:46 GMT

LOL RedStang...Funny picture. No comment.

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Honeybee01 — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 16:51:39 GMT

Living Life

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Bleudog101 — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 15:41:49 GMT

You are correct, I remember seeing Nipton on the news when the Powerball was $1.6 Billion and showing folks driving there.

On a side note, am ambivalent about Borgata being bought out by MGM...will be several months @ least before we can take a comp trip to AC

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haymaker — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 15:29:51 GMT

Almost everyone there is from Nevada, any Cali tags there forgot to get their tix before they left home.

The smart people from Nevada will bypass the long line there when the JP is outsized and go to Nipton station, farther south in Cali.

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Bleudog101 — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 15:18:53 GMT

I love your post and reflect many of my sentiments to a 'T'.

If they were smart (which the politicians aren't), they'd do some checking on the coffers from neighboring lottery states.

One time I'd love to go to that Primm lotto store in California just to see how many Nevada tagged cars there are when the lottery is sky high. Same thing here @ the casino; more Kentucky tagged vehicles there than Indiana ALL the time.

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Groppo — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:20:04 GMT

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Man, I'm glad I don't live in Alabama.

And, I will do my very best to avoid that state, when I'm driving around in my car.

I don't drive the big truck anymore. It's not a bad state, with its rolling green hills,

but the powers-that-be can't decide how to get a state lotto going?

Don't they want to ask a neighboring state for help in deciding, since they can't?

Or how to appropriate the funds?

Then, I guess they do deserve to have their residents go out of state, and sp... [ More ]

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RedStang — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:03:03 GMT

I agree. These Alabama residents want a Lottery.

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helpmewin — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 13:07:19 GMT

Maybe there can be enough money for all 3

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LiveInGreenBay — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:59:36 GMT

I have a radical idea... Just let the voters in Alabama decide. These politicians will just argue until the cows come home. Also, let them decide where the lottery money goes. Make it multiple choice on the ballot. A) Medicaid. B) Education. C) The governors pocket.

Alabama lottery bill faces battle in House

Lottery Post — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:03:06 GMT

Senators thought the lottery proposal they approved Friday directed 10 percent of the revenue toward Alabama's education budget, but it doesn't.

An amendment was added earlier Friday to Senate Bill 3 to give the education budget a slice of the lottery money. But a subsequent amendment to send the first $100 million in revenue to the state Medicaid agency, deleted the education allocation.

Whether that amendment will get back into the bill is now unknown.

I'm going to talk to the House... [ More ]