Montana Lottery celebrates 35th anniversary

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Bleudog101 — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 19:56:18 GMT

Let my eyes play a little trick reading this. Montana and Alabama have the same amount of letters, so pretended was reading about AL and not MT.

Yes, get rid of the old goats holding up what folks want! Here in KY the Family Council which is against everything it seems mentioned how they fought the lottery on the news a few weeks ago. Well get over it, we have a very good lottery even if they did go to RNG. Probably mentioned before that WDRB interviewed me on the way into Derby City Gaming

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Mata Garbo — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:52:55 GMT

It's amazing what can happen when tired old legislators get out of the way and let the voters vote on lotteries in different states. The voters almost always vote in favor of the lottery. Happy anniversary Montana

Montana Lottery celebrates 35th anniversary

Lottery Post — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:10:51 GMT

The Montana Lottery has generated $302 million to benefit the State of Montana since its inception in 1987, paying out more than $774 million in prizes to winners.

On average, the Lottery has paid out $62,369 every single day to winners.

But the Montana Lottery almost never happened.

The idea of starting a lottery in Montana was the brain child of longtime Butte state Rep. Bob Pavlovich. Pavlovich and Butte Sen. Lawrence Stimatz sponsored a bill in the 1985 Montana Legislature to cre... [ More ]