PITTSBURG POST-GAZETTE EDITORIAL: State Attorney General Kathleen Kane made the right call by halting a 20-year private management agreement for the Pennsylvania Lottery.
The announcement was a setback for the Corbett administration, which last month signed a contract with British lottery operator Camelot Global Services PA LLC, but her decision doesn’t necessarily mean the state never can outsource the lottery’s day-to-day operations. We have no quarrel with that.
The most troubling aspect of this deal is that it would have allowed Camelot to develop online sales and electronic games such as keno under the purview of the lottery. Ms. Kane concluded the contract was illegal, in part, because those options are not authorized under the state’s gaming law… (more)
