NC Lottery Not Dirty Enough

Everything about the "new" North Carolina lottery that passed under very suspicious circumstances last year stinks. The ongoing process shows one of the big reasons I've always opposed it -- it is absolutely filthy is an overflowing cesspool of corruption.

Now the NC Attorney General has called for an investigation into 3 mob members over their "possible" illegal involvement in the lottery and lobbying for the lottery. This, just one day after the lottery commissioner from Mecklenburg was revealed as a liar and a cheat, so he was forced to resign.

The company that stands to gain the most from the lottery (MUCH more than the state, and an infinite amount more than the education system), Scientific Games, has been spending money bribing official after official to get this lottery in place. One of their employees wrote the lottery law while working for the Speaker of the House. They bribed Kevin Geddings, the official that was forced to resign $24,000, including $9,000 after he was named to the commission.

Gambling is crappy. A state-sponsored monopoly on gambling is even worse. But for those who support the lottery, don't worry -- the law has passed and the state DA is more interested in running for governor, so there will be no actual results from this "investigation." The lottery will go on, no matter what laws have to be broken to get it in place.

Posted by: Ogre at 07:05 AM

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