North Dakota Republicans Complain That Ads For The State Lottery Promote Gambling

  •  January 30, 2007

Dumb…

The major debate in the ND legislature today was the PowerBall advertisements that the State of North Dakota runs on TV. Republican lawmakers are saying that the ads promote gambling and that the ads should be stopped.

The ads promote gambling…but the lottery doesn’t?

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  • Richard

    More religous love. This is the only thing that is worse than politicians wanting to control personal rights, wait it is the exact same thing, what was I thinking.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Maybe their concerned that the people will gamble with the governments money (it's all their money) somewhere else besides the lobby or charitable gambling.

    The state won't be able to get their skim off of that which is so so unfair to those poor government types.

    After all if the state employees don't get more money sooner or later the taxpayers are going to catch up with them in wealth.

  • http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

    It's time for the ND state legislature to meet once every three years.

  • http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Robert Perry

    If I were a ND GOP lawmaker, I'd introduce legislation to end the lottery because of the damage it does to poor communities (which buy most of the tickets) and enjoy watching Democrats squirm. As our gracious host hints, they do need to complete their logic in this area.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    It's time for the ND state legislature to meet once every three years.

    Fine by me.

  • http://www.freerepublicans.com/ freerepublicans.com

    There are enough laws, time to get rid of some.

    For every law written one must be taken off the books.

    For every dollar in tax cuts, there must be two dollars in spending cuts.

    For every spending increase, the primary sponsor must be whipped with a 'cat of nine tails.'

    These are the Draconian types of laws we can live with.

  • Marty

    Gambling is for losers — even the State knows this. It's against our long-term interest to promote gambling…

    Yeah yeah, save it, ya buncha libertarian/anarchist wannabes! :P

    Still, I always found it profoundly strange that here in N.C. (before we got our own 'loser pays' game anyway) that it was illegal to hold a lottery ticket from a neighboring state, yet both Virginia and South Carolina advertised their games on N.C. stations, and our local papers published the numbers.

    Aiding and Abetting, anyone?

    Effin' Losers.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    I think state-run lotteries are pretty dumb. I don't think the states should be in the gaming business. But gambling in general? I say let it go.

    Who are you to say that I can't win a few hundred bucks from my friends playing poker on the weekend?

  • Marty

    Who are you to say that I can't win a few hundred bucks from my friends
    playing poker on the weekend?

    Nobody at all.

    But as a citizen, i do have as much input as anyone as to whether "the state can win a few million bucks playing poker with her citizens on the weekend".

    I think the game is rigged, and the state has rigged it us all. That's not the same as playing with friends.

  • Marty

    sorry, "the state has rigged it against us all…"

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