SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE: ..The administration wants to convert the lottery to private management. Private companies are accountable to their stockholders rather than Pennsylvania citizens…
Camelot Global Service PA LLC, a British company, was the sole bidder to respond to the administration’s request for proposals to operate the lottery. Its proposal said it would generate $34 billion in profits for the lottery over 20 years. Part of that would come from online keno games, which would establish 24-hour-a-day gambling, outside casinos, for the benefit of the lottery.
That, in itself, constitutes such a vast expansion of gambling that it should require legislative hearings, regardless of what the law says about the administration’s authority… (more)
